diff --git a/django/http/request.py b/django/http/request.py
index 8f74bddb711..a8eb14d1540 100644
--- a/django/http/request.py
+++ b/django/http/request.py
@@ -187,11 +187,6 @@ class HttpRequest(object):
             self._stream = BytesIO(self._body)
         return self._body
 
-    @property
-    def raw_post_data(self):
-        warnings.warn('HttpRequest.raw_post_data has been deprecated. Use HttpRequest.body instead.', DeprecationWarning)
-        return self.body
-
     def _mark_post_parse_error(self):
         self._post = QueryDict('')
         self._files = MultiValueDict()
diff --git a/docs/ref/request-response.txt b/docs/ref/request-response.txt
index 2775c974d04..9e8eec4433c 100644
--- a/docs/ref/request-response.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/request-response.txt
@@ -34,11 +34,6 @@ All attributes should be considered read-only, unless stated otherwise below.
 
 .. attribute:: HttpRequest.body
 
-    .. versionchanged:: 1.4
-
-    Before Django 1.4, ``HttpRequest.body`` was named
-    ``HttpRequest.raw_post_data``.
-
     The raw HTTP request body as a byte string. This is useful for processing
     data in different ways than conventional HTML forms: binary images,
     XML payload etc. For processing conventional form data, use ``HttpRequest.POST``.
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py
index bb7f925e873..799cd9b3020 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py
@@ -507,20 +507,6 @@ class RequestsTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(request.read(13), b'--boundary\r\nC')
         self.assertEqual(request.POST, {'name': ['value']})
 
-    def test_raw_post_data_returns_body(self):
-        """
-        HttpRequest.raw_post_body should be the same as HttpRequest.body
-        """
-        payload = FakePayload('Hello There!')
-        request = WSGIRequest({
-            'REQUEST_METHOD': 'POST',
-            'CONTENT_LENGTH': len(payload),
-            'wsgi.input': payload,
-        })
-
-        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True):
-            self.assertEqual(request.body, request.raw_post_data)
-
     def test_POST_connection_error(self):
         """
         If wsgi.input.read() raises an exception while trying to read() the
@@ -536,8 +522,5 @@ class RequestsTests(unittest.TestCase):
                                'CONTENT_LENGTH': len(payload),
                                'wsgi.input': ExplodingBytesIO(payload)})
 
-        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
-            warnings.simplefilter("always")
-            with self.assertRaises(UnreadablePostError):
-                request.raw_post_data
-            self.assertEqual(len(w), 1)
+        with self.assertRaises(UnreadablePostError):
+            request.body