diff --git a/wagtail/admin/forms/__init__.py b/wagtail/admin/forms/__init__.py
index 007709b7df..6fb12ec3fd 100644
--- a/wagtail/admin/forms/__init__.py
+++ b/wagtail/admin/forms/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,80 @@
-from .auth import *  # NOQA
-from .choosers import *  # NOQA
-from .collections import *  # NOQA
-from .models import *  # NOQA
-from .pages import *  # NOQA
-from .search import *  # NOQA
-from .view_restrictions import *  # NOQA
+from importlib import import_module
+import sys
+import warnings
+
+from wagtail.utils.deprecation import RemovedInWagtail25Warning
+
+# definitions which are not being deprecated from wagtail.admin.forms
+from .models import (  # NOQA
+    FORM_FIELD_OVERRIDES, DIRECT_FORM_FIELD_OVERRIDES, formfield_for_dbfield, WagtailAdminModelFormMetaclass, WagtailAdminModelForm
+)
+from .pages import WagtailAdminPageForm  # NOQA
+
+
+# Names previously defined here which now exist in submodules of wagtail.admin.forms:
+#
+# We want these to be available in this module during deprecation, but can't simply do
+# `from .auth import *` or similar as this is susceptible to circular imports when importing
+# any submodule (see https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/issues/4515). As a workaround, we
+# fiddle this module's definition in sys.modules to be an object with a custom __getattr__
+# method that intercepts accesses to these names and lazily imports them while also
+# producing a deprecation warning.
+
+MOVED_DEFINITIONS = {
+    'LoginForm': 'wagtail.admin.forms.auth',
+    'PasswordResetForm': 'wagtail.admin.forms.auth',
+
+    'URLOrAbsolutePathValidator': 'wagtail.admin.forms.choosers',
+    'URLOrAbsolutePathField': 'wagtail.admin.forms.choosers',
+    'ExternalLinkChooserForm': 'wagtail.admin.forms.choosers',
+    'EmailLinkChooserForm': 'wagtail.admin.forms.choosers',
+
+    'CollectionViewRestrictionForm': 'wagtail.admin.forms.collections',
+    'CollectionForm': 'wagtail.admin.forms.collections',
+    'BaseCollectionMemberForm': 'wagtail.admin.forms.collections',
+    'BaseGroupCollectionMemberPermissionFormSet': 'wagtail.admin.forms.collections',
+    'collection_member_permission_formset_factory': 'wagtail.admin.forms.collections',
+
+    'CopyForm': 'wagtail.admin.forms.pages',
+    'PageViewRestrictionForm': 'wagtail.admin.forms.pages',
+
+    'SearchForm': 'wagtail.admin.forms.search',
+
+    'BaseViewRestrictionForm': 'wagtail.admin.forms.view_restrictions',
+}
+
+
+class MovedDefinitionHandler(object):
+    def __init__(self, real_module, moved_definitions):
+        self.real_module = real_module
+        self.moved_definitions = moved_definitions
+
+    def __getattr__(self, name):
+        try:
+            return getattr(self.real_module, name)
+        except AttributeError as e:
+            try:
+                # is the missing name one of our moved definitions?
+                new_module_name = self.moved_definitions[name]
+            except KeyError:
+                # raise the original AttributeError without including the inner try/catch
+                # in the stack trace
+                raise e from None
+
+            warnings.warn(
+                "%s has been moved from wagtail.admin.forms to %s" % (name, new_module_name),
+                category=RemovedInWagtail25Warning
+            )
+
+            # load the requested definition from the module named in moved_definitions
+            new_module = import_module(new_module_name)
+            definition = getattr(new_module, name)
+
+            # stash that definition into the current module so that we don't have to
+            # redo this import next time we access it
+            setattr(self.real_module, name, definition)
+
+            return definition
+
+
+sys.modules[__name__] = MovedDefinitionHandler(sys.modules[__name__], MOVED_DEFINITIONS)