Municipal Borough of Farnworth
Municipal Borough of Farnworth | |
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Area | |
• 1911 | 1,504 acres (6.1 km2)[1] |
• 1961 | 1,503 acres (6.1 km2)[1] |
Population | |
• 1901 | 25,925 |
• 1971 | 28,862 |
History | |
• Created | 1863 |
• Abolished | 1974 |
• Succeeded by | Metropolitan Borough of Bolton |
Status |
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Government | |
• HQ | Farnworth Town Hall |
• Motto | Latin: Juste Nec Timide (Be just and fear not)[2] |
The Municipal Borough of Farnworth was a local government district centred on the town of Farnworth in the administrative county of Greater Manchester, England. A local board of health had been established for Farnworth in 1863, which was reconstituted as an urban district in 1899, before being granted a charter of incorporation to become a municipal borough in 1939. Following abolition of the local authority in 1974, Farnworth became an unparished area of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester.
History
Lying within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire since the early 12th century, Farnworth constituted a township in the civil and ecclesiastical parish of Deane.[3][4] In 1837, Farnworth became part of the Bolton Poor Law Union which took responsibility for funding the Poor Law in that Union area.[5]
Under the Local Government Act 1858, a local board of health was adopted for the township of Farnworth in 1863.[6] In 1866, Farnworth was also given the status of a civil parish.[7] After the Public Health Act 1875 was passed by Parliament in that year, Farnworth Local Board of Health assumed extra duties as an urban sanitary district, although the Local Board's title did not change.[8]
In 1899, following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1894, Farnworth Local Board was reconstituted as an elected urban district council of eighteen members.[9] Farnworth Urban District Council had six electoral wards, each denoted by points of the compass (North, North-East, North-West, South, South-East, and South-West wards), and each represented by three councillors.[9][10] In 1939, Farnworth was granted a charter of incorporation to become a municipal borough.[11]
Under the Local Government Act 1972, the Municipal Borough of Farnworth was abolished on 1 April 1974 and its former area was transferred to Greater Manchester to become an unparished area of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton.[4]
Demography
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Sources: Urban Sanitary District (USD) 1891.[10][12] Urban District (UD) and Municipal Borough (MB) 1901–1971.[10][13] |
Lists of office holders
Chairmen of Farnworth Local Board
Chairmen of Farnworth Local Board, 1863–1899 | ||||
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Name | Party | Tenure | Notes | |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Alfred Barnes | Liberal | 1863–1867 |
1st term |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | David Crossley | Liberal | 1867–1868 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Hindley | Conservative | 1868–1869 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Alfred Topp | Liberal | 1869–1870 |
1st term |
William Barton Whittam | — | 1870–1872 |
1st term | |
John Greenhalgh | — | 1872–1875 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Alfred Topp | Liberal | 1875–1878 |
2nd term. Afterwards was Chairman of Farnworth Urban District Council (1901–1904) |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Alfred Barnes | Liberal | 1878–1880 |
2nd term |
William Barton Whittam | — | 1880–1881 |
2nd term | |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | James Nuttall | Liberal | 1881–1885 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Joseph Winter | Liberal | 1885–1886 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | George Foster | Liberal | 1886–1887 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Clelland Clarke | Liberal | 1888–1894 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Nathaniel Nicholson | Conservative | 1895–1897 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Thomas Ivers | Liberal | 1897–1899 |
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Source(s):[11] |
Chairmen of Farnworth Urban District Council
Chairmen of Farnworth Urban District Council, 1899–1939 | ||||
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Name | Party | Tenure | Notes | |
William Sumner | — | 1899–1901 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Alfred Topp | Liberal | 1901–1904 |
Previously Chairman of Farnworth Local Board (1869–1870, and 1875–1878) |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Thomas Ivers | Liberal | 1904–1906 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Thomas Stanley | Conservative | 1906–1909 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Frederick Whittaker | Conservative | 1909–1912 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Charles Young | Conservative | 1912–1914 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Boyes Richardson | Liberal | 1914–1915 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | James Stones | Conservative | 1915–1919 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Chadwick | Conservative | 1919–1921 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Charles Strathnairn Jackson | Labour | 1921–1923 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Richard Henry Cunliffe | Liberal | 1923–1925 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Thomas White | Conservative | 1925–1926 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Walter Robert Winter | Labour | 1926–1928 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Harry Barnes | Labour | 1928–1930 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | The Rev. John Wilcockson | Labour | 1930–1932 |
Afterwards was Mayor of Farnworth (1939–1940) |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | George Tomlinson | Labour | 1932–1933 |
Afterwards was Member of Parliament for Farnworth (1938–1952) |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | James Stevenson | Labour | 1934–1936 |
Afterwards was Mayor of Farnworth (1940–1941) |
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Samuel Taylor | Liberal | 1936–1937 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Alfred Jones | Labour | 1938–1939 |
Afterwards was Mayor of Farnworth (1941–1942) |
Source(s):[11] |
Mayors of the Municipal Borough of Farnworth
Mayors of the Municipal Borough of Farnworth, 1939–1974 | ||||
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Name | Party | Tenure | Notes | |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | The Rev. John Wilcockson | Labour | 1939–1940 |
Previously Chairman of Farnworth Urban District (1930–1932) |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | James Stevenson, JP | Labour | 1940–1941 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Alfred Jones, JP, OBE | Labour | 1941–1942 |
Previously Chairman of Farnworth Urban District (1938–1939) |
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William McManus | Labour | 1942–1943 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Heathcoate | Labour | 1943–1944 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Jesse Seddon, JP, MC | Conservative | 1944–1945 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Richard Ralphson | Labour | 1945–1946 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Harold Greenwood Holland | Labour | 1946–1947 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | James Alfred Dean | Labour | 1947–1949 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Welsby | Labour | 1949–1950 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Brooks | Labour | 1950–1951 |
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style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | | George Henry Wilson | Liberal | 1951–1952 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Richard Matthews | Labour | 1952–1953 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Harold Armitage | Labour | 1953–1954 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Robert Neary, JP | Labour | 1954–1955 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | James Melville White | Labour | 1955–1956 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | James Wilfred Geere | Labour | 1956–1957 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Glanville Seddon | Labour | 1957–1958 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | George Benyon | Labour | 1958–1959 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | John Higgins | Labour | 1959–1960 |
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style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Albert Samuel Royse, JP, MBE | Conservative | 1960–1961 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Herbert Brindle | Labour | 1961–1962 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Philip Smith | Labour | 1962–1963 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Phillip Norfield | Labour | 1963–1964 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Sydney Stout | Labour | 1964–1965 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | George Kenyon Brown | Labour | 1965–1966 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Norman Topping | Labour | 1966–1967 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Charles Brendan Callaghan | Labour | 1967–1968 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Lawrence Francis Cunliffe | Labour | 1968–1969 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Joseph Wild | Labour | 1969–1970 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Leonard Haslam | Labour | 1970–1971 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | William Hardman | Labour | 1971–1972 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Elizabeth Brown | Labour | 1972–1973 |
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style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | | Joseph Kenneth Flanagan | Labour | 1973–1974 |
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Source(s):[11] |
Neighbouring districts
The Municipal Borough of Farnworth was surrounded to the north and west by the County Borough of Bolton, to the northeast by Little Lever Urban District, to the southeast by Kearsley Urban District, and to the south by Little Hulton Urban District until 1933, then by Worsley Urban District.
Notes
- ^ a b Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Farnworth UD/MB: Area (acres)". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
- ^ Young, Robert. "Pre-1974 Civic Heraldry of Lancashire". Civic Heraldry of England and Wales. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
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Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1911). "Salford hundred: The parish of Deane". A History of the County of Lancaster. Vol. Volume 5. British History Online. pp. 1–5. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
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"Greater Manchester Gazetteer". Greater Manchester County Record Office. Place names - D to F. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
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suggested) (help) - ^ Higginbotham, Peter. "The Workhouse: Bolton, Lancashire". The Workhouse: The story of an institution... Retrieved 28 November 2010.
- ^ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Farnworth USD: Relationships and changes". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
- ^ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Farnworth CP/Ch: Relationships and changes". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
- ^ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Farnworth USD: Relationships and changes". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
- ^ a b
Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1911). "Townships: Farnworth". A History of the County of Lancaster. Vol. Volume 5. British History Online. pp. 34–39. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
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- ^ a b c d Links in a Chain Project. "Farnworth 1863-1974". Links in a Chain. Retrieved 6 May 2008.
- ^ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Farnworth USD: Males & Females". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
- ^ Great Britain Historical GIS Project. "Farnworth UD/MB: Total Population". A Vision of Britain through Time. University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
External links
- Farnworth
- Municipal boroughs of England
- Local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
- History of Lancashire
- Local Government Districts created by the Local Government Act 1858
- Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894
- Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972