NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME (BOROUGH)

Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme ''Shown within Staffordshire''
Geography
Status:	Non-metropolitan district, Borough
Region:	West Midlands
Admin. County:	Staffordshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 185th 210.96 km²
Admin. HQ:	Newcastle-under-Lyme
ONS code:	41UE
Demographics
Population: - Total () - Density	Ranked / km²
Ethnicity:	98.0% White
Politics
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council http://www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MPs:	Charlotte Atkins, William Cash, Paul Farrelly

'Newcastle-under-Lyme' is a local government district with borough status in Staffordshire, England.
It is named after its main town of Newcastle-under-Lyme where the council is based, but also includes the town of Kidsgrove, the villages of Silverdale and Keele, and the rural area surrounding Audley. Most of the borough forms part of The Potteries Urban Area.

Contents

History

Wards

Politics

Demographics

Education

References

External links

History

In 1835 'Newcastle-under-Lyme Municipal Borough' was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 which required that rate payers elected councillors. In 1932 it took in what had been the Wolstanton United Urban District, covering the parishes of Chesterton, Silverdale and Wolstanton, also taking the parish of Clayton from Newcastle-under-Lyme Rural District.
The district was formed on April 1, 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the Newcastle-under-Lyme Municipal Borough, the Kidsgrove Urban District, and Newcastle-under-Lyme Rural District.
Up to the time of the passing of the Municipal Reform Act an election a mock mayor occurred annually after the election of the real mayor.

Wards

The borough contains 24 wards.

★ 1 - Audley and Bignall End ★ 2 - Bradwell ★ 3 - Butt Lane ★ 4 - Chesterton ★ 5 - Clayton ★ 6 - Cross Heath ★ 7 - Halmerend ★ 8 - Holditch ★ 9 - Keele ★ 10 - Kidsgrove ★ 11 - Knutton and Silverdale ★ 12 - Loggerheads and Whitmore

★ 13 - Madeley ★ 14 - May Bank ★ 15 - Newchapel ★ 16 - Porthill ★ 17 - Ravenscliffe ★ 18 - Seabridge ★ 19 - Silverdale and Parksite ★ 20 - Talke ★ 21 - Thistleberry ★ 22 - Town ★ 23 - Westlands ★ 24 - Wolstanton

Politics

The local council has traditionally been dominated by the Labour Party. However, in the 2006 local elections a coalition of Liberal Democrat and Conservative councillors gained a majority.

Demographics

'Comparative Census Information'
'2001 UK Census'	'Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme'	'England'
Total population	122,030	49,138,831
White	98%	91%
Asian	0.6%	4.6%
Black	0.2%	2.3%
Christian	78.5%	72%
Muslim	0.5%	3.1%
Hindu	0.2%	1.1%
No religion	13.1%	15%
Unemployed	2%	3.3%

In the 2001 census, the borough was recorded as having a population of 122,030 with 51.5% being female. 78.% identified themselves as Christian, 13.1% having no religion, 0.5% Muslim, 0.2% Hindu or other and 0.1% stating Jewish or Sikh.^[1] 61.2% were classed as economically active, with 22.6% working in manufacturing, 18.5% in wholesale or retail, 11.6% in health/social work and 11.6% in financial and other business related activities.^[2]

Education

Newcastle-under-Lyme was chosen for the campus of University College of North Staffordshire, established in 1949 at Keele Hall in the village of Keele, two miles from the town centre, and which was granted full university status as Keele University in 1962. Keele University Medical School is based in the grounds of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire at Hartshill in Stoke-upon-Trent, about a mile from the centre of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

References

1. Newcastle-under-Lyme Social Profile
2. Newcastle-under-Lyme Economic Profile

External links

★ Newcastle-under-Lyme borough council

★ Newcastle-under-Lyme local life

★ The Potteries

★ Keele University

★ Local Information from ''The Sentinel'' newspaper

★ Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service