Wyre
Coordinates: 53°54′00″N 2°48′32″W / 53.900°N 2.809°W
| Borough of Wyre | |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | North West England |
| Ceremonial county | Lancashire |
| Founded | |
| Admin. HQ | Poulton-le-Fylde |
| Government | |
| • Type | Wyre Borough Council |
| • Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
| • Executive: | Conservative |
| • MPs: | Mark Menzies, Eric Ollerenshaw, Ben Wallace |
| Area | |
| • Total | 109.1 sq mi (282.6 km2) |
| Area rank | 145th |
| Population (2010 est.) | |
| • Total | 111,400 |
| • Rank | Ranked 201st |
| • Density | 1,021/sq mi (394.2/km2) |
| Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) |
| • Summer (DST) | British Summer Time (UTC+1) |
| Postcode | |
| ISO 3166-2 | |
| ONS code | 30UQ |
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| NUTS 3 | |
| Ethnicity | 96.6% White 1.9% S.Asian[1] |
| Website | wyrebc.gov.uk |
Wyre is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. Its council is based in Poulton-le-Fylde.
The district is named after the River Wyre, which runs through the district. It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger of the municipal borough of Fleetwood, along with Poulton-le-Fylde, Preesall and Thornton-Cleveleys urban districts and Garstang Rural District.
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[edit] Town and Parish Councils
[edit] Urban areas
[edit] Parish Councils
- Barnacre with Bonds
- Bleasdale
- Cabus
- Catterall
- Claughton on Brock
- Fleetwood (Town council)
- Forton
- Garstang (Town council)
- Great Eccleston
- Hambleton
- Inskip-with-Sowerby
- Kirkland, Lancashire
- Myerscough and Bilsborrow
- Nateby
- Nether Wyresdale
- Out Rawcliffe
- Pilling
- Preesall (Town Council)
- Scorton
- Stalmine-with-Staynall
- Upper Rawcliffe with Tarnacre
- Winmarleigh
[edit] Parliament
Wyre is split into three Parliamentary Constituencies - Wyre and Preston North, Lancaster and Fleetwood and Blackpool North and Cleveleys. This was recently changed as part of the Boundary changes for the United Kingdom general election, 2010. Before this change it had been split into three Lancaster and Wyre, Blackpool North and Fleetwood and Fylde.
[edit] References
- ^ "Resident Population Estimates by Ethnic Group (Percentages)". Office for National Statistics. 30 October 2007. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=277027&c=wyre&d=13&e=13&g=464712&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1206542374718&enc=1&dsFamilyId=1812. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
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