Eastry Rural District was a rural district in the county of Kent, England, from 1894 to 1974. It was the successor (designated under Part II of the Local Government Act 1894 ) to the Eastry Rural Sanitary Authority (designated under Part II of the Public Health Act 1875 ). The Eastry Rural Sanitary Authority, which initially had sanitary, water and public nuisance functions, assumed (within its district) the highway functions of the Wingham Highway Board with effect from 31 May 1880, which then were continued by the Eastry Rural District Council. Eastry Rural District was subject to a significant boundary reform in 1935 when several parishes were gained from the disbanded Isle of Thanet Rural District and other parishes were reorganised. It included the following civil parishes: