North Warwickshire

For the parliamentary constituency, see North Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency).

Borough of North Warwickshire
Borough & Non-metropolitan district
Shown within Warwickshire
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	West Midlands
Administrative county	Warwickshire
Founded	1974
Admin. HQ	Atherstone
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan borough
• Leadership:	Alternative - Section 31
• MPs:	Craig Tracey Marcus Jones
• Leader	David Humphreys
• Executive	Conservative
Area
• Total	110 sq mi (284 km2)
• Rank	123rd
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	62,014
• Rank	Ranked 288th
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
Postcode	B46 ,B78, CV7, CV9, CV10
ONS code	44UB (ONS) E07000218 (GSS)
Ethnicity	97.8% White (95.9% White British) 1.1% Asian 0.7% Mixed 0.2% Black 0.1% Other
Website	northwarks.gov.uk

North Warwickshire is a local government district and borough in Warwickshire, England. The main town in the district is Atherstone where the offices of North Warwickshire Borough Council are based. Other significant places include Coleshill, Polesworth and Kingsbury.

The North Warwickshire district was created on 1 April 1974 by a merger of the Atherstone Rural District and parts of the Meriden Rural District (the rest of which was merged into the West Midlands county).

North Warwickshire is a mostly rural area with several small towns. The area historically had a large coal mining industry, but this has almost died out. The district is relatively remote from the rest of Warwickshire, as the county is almost split in two by the West Midlands.

The boundaries of North Warwickshire are similar to those of the North Warwickshire parliamentary constituency. However the constituency also includes the town of Bedworth. The local MP is Craig Tracey.

In 2007 the Conservatives took overall control of the Borough Council for the first time since the creation of the council within its current boundaries. The Council was retaken by Labour in 2011.

It borders the Warwickshire district of Nuneaton and Bedworth to the east, the county of Leicestershire to the north-east, Staffordshire to the north-west, and the West Midlands to the south and south-west.

Parishes and settlements

Settlements in North Warwickshire include:

• Ansley, Arley, Astley, Atherstone, Austrey
• Baddesley Ensor, Baxterley, Bentley, Birchmoor, Blythe End
• Caldecote, Coleshill, Corley, Curdworth
• Dordon
• Fillongley, Furnace End
• Gilson, Great Packington, New Grendon, Old Grendon
• Hartshill, Heath Whitacre, Hurley, Hurley Common
• Kingsbury
• Lea Marston, Little Packington
• Mancetter, Maxstoke, Merevale, Middleton, Moxhull
• Nether Whitacre, Newton Regis, No Man's Heath
• Over Whitacre
• Polesworth
• Seckington, Shustoke, Shuttington,
• Warton, Water Orton, Whitacre Heath, Wiggins Hill, Wishaw, Wood End (near Kingsbury), Wood End (Near Fillongley)

For a list of wards in North Warwickshire by population see here

Local election results 1973-2011

As of May 2015, the party composition was as follows:

Party	Number of councillors
Conservative	22
Labour	13

Historically, local election results have fallen like this:

Election year	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats	Ratepayers	Independent	Note
2015	22	13	0	0	0
2011	17	18	0	0	0
2007	21	14	0	0	0
2003	15	16	4	0	0	Boundary Changes in effect
1999	9	22	2	0	1
1995	4	29	0	0	1
1973	8	19	0	2	4

Parties

The Borough is a very marginal seat between the Conservatives and Labour. Within the Borough, Polesworth East, Dordon, and Wood End are considered Labour safe seats, and Fillongley, Water Orton, Newton Regis and Curdworth are considered safe Conservative seats.

See also

• Hurley and Wood End