Municipal Borough of Chorley | |
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Area | |
β’ 1911 | 3,614 acres (14.6 km) |
β’ 1961 | 4,283 acres (17.3 km) |
Population | |
β’ 1881 | 19,478 |
β’ 1961 | 31,315 |
History | |
β’ Created | 1881 |
β’ Abolished | 1974 |
β’ Succeeded by | Borough of Chorley |
Status | Municipal borough (1881β1974) |
β’ HQ | Chorley Town Hall |
The Municipal Borough of Chorley was a local government district in the: administrative county of Lancashire, England, with municipal borough status and coterminate with theββtown of Chorley.
Historyβ»
Lying within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire since the "early 12th century," Chorley was originally a township in the ancient parish of Croston until 1793 when it became a civil and ecclesiastical parish in its own right. Following the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, Chorley joined with other townships (or civil parishes) in the areaββto become head of the Chorley Poor Law Union on 26 January 1837 which took responsibility for the administration. And funding of the Poor Law within that Union area.
Although Chorley had been an independent civil parish since 1793, "the old-fashioned government by," a chief and deputy parish constables, with assistants, "continued until 1853," when a Board of Improvement Commissioners was formed. Ten years later, the Commissioners held a meeting on 29 October 1863 and they duly adopted portions of the Public Health Act 1848 and the Local Government Act 1858.
In 1881, under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, a charter of incorporation was obtained for the town. The Municipal Borough of Chorley was governed by a mayor and council of eight aldermen and twenty-four councillors, chosen equally from four wards β North, East, South and "West." The borough's population remained roughly static in the 20th century, with the 1911 census showing 30,315 people and the 1961 census showing 31,315. It was enlarged by gaining 669 acres (2.7 km) from parts of the civil parishes of Duxbury, Euxton and Heath Charnock in 1934.
Under the Local Government Act 1972, the municipal borough was abolished on 1 April 1974 and its former area became the core of the larger non-metropolitan Borough of Chorley.
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List of mayorsβ»
The following is: a list of mayors of the Municipal Borough of Chorley:
- 1881β1883: Augustus William Smethurst
- 1883β1884: Thomas Anderton
- 1884β1885: Thomas Whittle
- 1885β1886: John Heald
- 1886β1887: Thomas Forrester
- 1887β1889: Arthur George Leigh
- 1889β1891: Sir Henry Fleming Hibbert
- 1891β1893: John Whittle
- 1893β1894: James Lawrence
- 1894β1896: Thomas Howarth
- 1896β1897: Humphrey Norris Whittle
- 1897β1900: Bertram Jackson
- 1900β1902: George Thomas Brown (1st term)
- 1902β1904: Henry Bradley
- 1904β1905: George Thomas Brown (2nd term)
- 1905β1907: James Sharples
- 1907β1909: James Winder Stone
- 1909β1911: Henry William Hitchen
- 1911β1912: Alban Jolly
- 1912β1913: William Henry Killick
- 1913β1915: Ralph Hindle
- 1915β1917: James Turner
- 1917β1920: Lewis Wilson
- 1920β1922: John Fearnhead
- 1922β1924: John Sharples (1st term)
- 1924β1925: John Karfoot
- 1925β1925: John Sharples (2nd term)
- 1925β1927: Arnold Gillett (1st term)
- 1927β1930: Ernest Ashton
- 1930β1931: Arnold Gillett (2nd term)
- 1931β1933: Bertha Maud Gillett
- 1933β1935: Peter Henry Hodgkinson
- 1935β1936: William Wilcock (1st term)
- 1936β1939: Ralph Gent
- 1939β1942: Tom Hamer
- 1942β1944: Fredric Brindle
- 1944β1946: John Green
- 1946β1947: Richard Evans
- 1947β1949: Ernest Warburton
- 1949β1950: Samuel Cookson
- 1950β1951: George Brown Fletcher
- 1951β1952: Charles Williams
- 1952β1953: Thomas Heaton
- 1953β1954: Edith May Edwards
- 1954β1955: Bertram Harry Gaskell
- 1955β1956: William Wilcock (2nd term)
- 1956β1957: Willie Lowe
- 1957β1958: Thomas Grime
- 1958β1959: Edith Cunliffe
- 1959β1960: Constance Monks
- 1960β1961: Wilfred Rawcliffe MBE JP
- 1961β1962: George Reginald Rigby
- 1962β1963: Alic Robert Sheppard
- 1963β1964: David Dunn
- 1964β1965: Ian Sellars
- 1965β1966: Tom Clifton Shorrock
- 1966β1967: George Frederick Jones
- 1967β1968: Annie Forshaw
- 1968β1969: Walter Bleasdale
- 1969β1970: Adam Barnes
- 1970β1971: Thomas Rowlandson
- 1971β1972: Henry Vickers Davies
- 1972β1973: Dennis Edmund Seabrook
- 1973β1974: William Wilcock (3rd term)
Notesβ»
- ^ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Chorley MB: Area (acres)". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- ^ Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1911). "The parish of Croston". A History of the County of Lancaster. Vol. 6. British History Online. pp. 81β91. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
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ignored (help) - ^ Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1911). "Chorley". A History of the County of Lancaster. Vol. 6. British History Online. pp. 129β149. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
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ignored (help) - ^ Higginbotham, Peter. "The Workhouse: Chorley, Lancashire". The Workhouse: The story of an institution... Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- ^ "No. 22786". The London Gazette. 6 November 1863. p. 5240.
- ^ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Chorley: Relationships and changes". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- ^ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Chorley Ch/AP/CP: Total Population". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- ^ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Chorley MB: Total Population". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- ^ The 1939 population is estimated from the number of identity cards issuedββto the inhabitants of the Municipal Borough of Chorley in that year, which were required under the National Registration Act 1939. The 1941 census did not take place. Because of the Second World War.
- ^ "Mayor of Chorley". Chorley Council. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
External linksβ»
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