Kearsley Urban District

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Kearsley Urban District
Area
 • 19111,004 acres (4.1 km2) [1]
 • 19611,726 acres (7.0 km2) [1]
Area transferred
 • 1933 Clifton and Ringley from Barton upon Irwell Rural District and Bury Rural District
Population
 • 18917,993 [2]
 • 197111,757 [3]
History
 • Created1865
 • Abolished1974
 • Succeeded by Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
Status
 •  HQ Kearsley Town Hall

Kearsley was, from 1865 to 1974, a local government district centred on the town of Kearsley in the administrative county of Lancashire, England.

History

Kearsley was a township in the civil and ecclesiastical parish of Deane in the Salford Hundred of Lancashire. [4] The township became part of the Bolton Poor Law Union on 1 February 1837 which took responsibility for funding the Poor Law within that Union area. [5]

In 1865, a local board of health was adopted for the township of Kearsley. [6] [7] The following year, Kearsley was also given the status of a civil parish. [8] [9] After the Public Health Act 1875 was passed by Parliament in that year, Kearsley Local Board assumed extra duties as an urban sanitary district, although the Local Board's title did not change. [10]

Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1894, Kearsley Local Board was replaced by an elected urban district council of twelve members. [7] Kearsley Urban District Council originally had just two electoral wards: East and West, [7] but between 1921 and 1931 the East ward was abolished and two new wards were created: North and South, leaving the Urban District Council with a total of three wards. [11] In 1933, Kearsley Urban District was extended to include parts of Clifton from the former Barton upon Irwell Rural District and the Ringley district from the former civil parish of Outwood which had been part of the former Bury Rural District. [12] [13]

Under the Local Government Act 1972, Kearsley Urban District was abolished on 1 April 1974 and its former area became an unparished area in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester. [12] [13]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Kearsley UD: Area (acres)". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  2. ↑ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Kearsley USD: Males & Females". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  3. ↑ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Kearsley UD: Total Population". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1911). "Salford hundred: The parish of Deane". A History of the County of Lancaster. Vol. 5. British History Online. pp. 1–5. Retrieved 24 July 2016.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. ↑ Higginbotham, Peter. "The Workhouse: Bolton, Lancashire". The Workhouse: The story of an institution... Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  6. ↑ McBain, Gayle (30 September 2015). "An historic day for Kearsley". The Bolton News. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  7. 1 2 3 Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1911). "Townships: Kearsley". A History of the County of Lancaster. Vol. 5. British History Online. pp. 39–41. Retrieved 24 July 2016.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Kearsley Tn/CP: Relationships and changes". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  9. ↑ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Status details for Civil Parish". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  10. ↑ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Kearsley USD: Relationships and changes". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  11. ↑ Tatton, Pauline. Local population statistics 1801–1986: abbreviated tables compiled from census statistics for Bolton. Bolton Libraries.
  12. 1 2 "Greater Manchester Gazetteer". Greater Manchester County Record Office. Place names – I to L. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  13. 1 2 Links in a Chain Project. "Kearsley 1865–1974". Links in a Chain. Retrieved 24 July 2016.

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