diff --git a/ckan/views/feed.py b/ckan/views/feed.py
index 3d81fc79e8d..c2e2cfb7fca 100644
--- a/ckan/views/feed.py
+++ b/ckan/views/feed.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 from six import text_type
 from dateutil.tz import tzutc
 from feedgen.feed import FeedGenerator
-from ckan.common import _, config, g, request, response
+from ckan.common import _, config, g, request
 import ckan.lib.helpers as h
 import ckan.lib.base as base
 import ckan.model as model
@@ -564,78 +564,6 @@ def _create_atom_id(resource_path, authority_name=None, date_string=None):
     return u':'.join(['tag', tagging_entity, resource_path])
 
 
-class _FixedAtom1Feed(webhelpers.feedgenerator.Atom1Feed):
-    """
-    The Atom1Feed defined in webhelpers doesn't provide all the fields we
-    might want to publish.
-     * In Atom1Feed, each <entry> is created with identical <updated> and
-       <published> fields.  See [1] (webhelpers 1.2) for details.
-       So, this class fixes that by allow an item to set both an <updated> and
-       <published> field.
-     * In Atom1Feed, the feed description is not used.  So this class uses the
-       <subtitle> field to publish that.
-       [1] https://bitbucket.org/bbangert/webhelpers/src/f5867a319abf/\
-       webhelpers/feedgenerator.py#cl-373
-    """
-
-    def add_item(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        """
-        Drop the pubdate field from the new item.
-        """
-        if u'pubdate' in kwargs:
-            kwargs.pop(u'pubdate')
-        defaults = {u'updated': None, u'published': None}
-        defaults.update(kwargs)
-        super(_FixedAtom1Feed, self).add_item(*args, **defaults)
-
-    def latest_post_date(self):
-        """
-        Calculates the latest post date from the 'updated' fields,
-        rather than the 'pubdate' fields.
-        """
-        updates = [
-            item['updated'] for item in self.items
-            if item['updated'] is not None
-        ]
-        if not len(updates):  # delegate to parent for default behaviour
-            return super(_FixedAtom1Feed, self).latest_post_date()
-        return max(updates)
-
-    def add_item_elements(self, handler, item):
-        """
-        Add the <updated> and <published> fields to each entry that's written
-        to the handler.
-        """
-        super(_FixedAtom1Feed, self).add_item_elements(handler, item)
-
-        dfunc = webhelpers.feedgenerator.rfc3339_date
-
-        if (item['updated']):
-            handler.addQuickElement(u'updated',
-                                    dfunc(item['updated']).decode(u'utf-8'))
-
-        if (item['published']):
-            handler.addQuickElement(u'published',
-                                    dfunc(item['published']).decode(u'utf-8'))
-
-    def add_root_elements(self, handler):
-        """
-        Add additional feed fields.
-         * Add the <subtitle> field from the feed description
-         * Add links other pages of the logical feed.
-        """
-        super(_FixedAtom1Feed, self).add_root_elements(handler)
-
-        handler.addQuickElement(u'subtitle', self.feed['description'])
-
-        for page in [u'previous', u'next', u'first', u'last']:
-            if self.feed.get(page + u'_page', None):
-                handler.addQuickElement(u'link', u'', {
-                    u'rel': page,
-                    u'href': self.feed.get(page + u'_page')
-                })
-
-
 # Routing
 feeds.add_url_rule(u'/dataset.atom', methods=[u'GET'], view_func=general)
 feeds.add_url_rule(u'/custom.atom', methods=[u'GET'], view_func=custom)