SEFTON

Metropolitan Borough of Sefton
Sefton
Geography
Status:	Metropolitan borough
Region:	North West England
Ceremonial County:	Merseyside
Historic County:	Lancashire
Area: - Total	Ranked 209th 153.14 km²
Admin. HQ:	Bootle
ONS code:	00CA
Demographics
Population: - Total () - Density	Ranked / km²
Ethnicity:	98.4% White
Politics
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council http://www.sefton.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MPs:	Joe Benton, Claire Curtis-Thomas, George Howarth, John Pugh

The 'Metropolitan Borough of Sefton' is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England. Its local authority is Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council.
Sefton was formed by the Local Government Act 1972 on April 1, 1974, by the amalgamation of the former county boroughs of Bootle and Southport, and, from the administrative county of Lancashire, the municipal borough of Crosby, the urban districts of Formby and Litherland, and part of the Rural District of West Lancashire. It was placed in the metropolitan county of Merseyside.
The borough consists of a coastal strip of land on the Irish Sea, and extends from Bootle, part of the Liverpool Urban Area, in the south, to Southport in the north. In the south-east, it extends inland to Maghull. The district is bounded by Liverpool to the south, the Knowsley to the south-east, and West Lancashire to the east.
It is named after the village and parish of Sefton, near Maghull. A Sefton Rural District covering some of the villages in the district had existed from 1894 to 1932.

Contents

Politics

Economy

Towns and Villages in Sefton

Parliamentary constituencies

Town twinning

References

See Also

External links

Politics

The existence of Sefton has been an ongoing local controversy, especially in Southport, MPs of which have campaigned for separation from Bootle, and possibly inclusion as a district in the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire.^[1] The council has been under no overall control since the 1980s.

Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Sefton at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by ''Office for National Statistics'' with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Year	Regional Gross Value Added	Agriculture	Industry	Services
1995	'2,079'	20	496	1,563
2000	'2,500'	8	468	2,024
2003	'2,994'	10	418	2,566

includes hunting and forestry
includes energy and construction
includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured
Components may not sum to totals due to rounding

Towns and Villages in Sefton

★ Ainsdale, Aintree

★ Birkdale, Blowick, Blundellsands, Bootle

★ Churchtown, Crossens

★ Ford, Formby

★ Great Altcar, Great Crosby

★ Hightown

★ Ince Blundell

★ Litherland, Little Altcar, Little Crosby, Lunt, Lydiate

★ Maghull, Marshside, Melling

★ Netherton

★ Orrell

★ Seaforth, Sefton, Southport

★ Thornton

★ Waterloo, Woodvale

Parliamentary constituencies

:''See also: List of Parliamentary constituencies on Merseyside

★ Southport

★ Crosby

★ Bootle

★ Knowsley North and Sefton East

Town twinning

★ Fort Lauderdale, Florida

★ Gdańsk, Poland

★ Mons, Belgium

References

1. Final Recommendations on the Future Local Government of Sefton, Local Government Commission for England, November 1997

See Also

★ Sefton Short Film Festival - Annual North Liverpool Short Film Festival

External links

★ Sefton Council

★ Vision of Britain