Tintwistle Rural District was a local government district in north east Cheshire, England from 1894 to 1974.

[1] It was created a rural district by the Local Government Act 1894 from the part of the Ashton-under-Lyne rural sanitary district which was in Cheshire.

It consisted of the civil parishes of: Hattersley and Matley formed an exclave of the district.

At that time, much of north east Cheshire became part of Greater Manchester.

Instead of becoming part of that county, or forming an exclave of Cheshire, Tintwistle became part of the High Peak district of Derbyshire.