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Northamptonshire County Council
Northamptonshire County Council was the county council for Northamptonshire in England from 1889 to 2021. It was originally created in 1889, reformed in 1974, and abolished in 2021. The headquarters of the council was County Hall, Northampton, County Hall in Northampton. Following the 1974 reforms Northamptonshire was classed as a non-metropolitan county, and the county council was responsible for Local Education Authority, education, social services, library, libraries, main roads, public transport policy and fire services, Trading Standards, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning. In early 2018, the council announced it was effectively insolvent. Subsequently, a report by government inspectors concluded that problems at the council were so deep-rooted that it should be abolished and replaced by two smaller authorities. Northamptonshire County Council and the county's seven district councils were therefore abolished, being replaced by two new Unitary authorit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Northamptonshire County Council Election
The 2017 Northamptonshire County Council election took place on 4 May 2017 as part of the 2017 local elections in the United Kingdom. County councillors were elected from all 57 electoral divisions which returned one county councillor to Northamptonshire County Council by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. These elections were the last held for Northamptonshire County Council before its dissolution in 2021. Results summary Results by Division Corby Daventry East Northamptonshire Kettering Northampton South Northamptonshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government Act 1888
The Local Government Act 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41) was an Act of Parliament (United Kingdom), act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which established county councils and county borough councils in England and Wales. It came into effect on 1 April 1889, except for the County of London, which came into existence on 21 March at the request of the London County Council. The bill Following the 1886 United Kingdom general election, 1886 general election, a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative administration headed by Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Lord Salisbury was formed. However the Conservatives did not have a majority of seats and had to rely on the support of the Liberal Unionist Party. As part of the price for this support the Liberal Unionists demanded that a bill be introduced placing county government under the control of elected councils, modelled on the borough councils introduced by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. Accordingly, the Loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Sanitary District
Sanitary districts were established in England and Wales in 1872 and in Ireland in 1878. The districts were of two types, based on existing structures: *Urban sanitary districts in towns with existing local government bodies *Rural sanitary districts in the remaining rural areas of poor law unions. Each district was governed by a sanitary authority and was responsible for various public health matters such as providing clean drinking water, sewers, street cleaning, and clearing slum housing. In England and Wales, both rural and urban sanitary districts were replaced in 1894 by the Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) by the more general rural districts and urban districts. A similar reform was carried out in Ireland in 1899 by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. England and Wales Sanitary districts were formed under the terms of the Public Health Act 1872 ( 35 & 36 Vict. c. 79). Instead of creating new bodies, existing authorities were given additional resp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal Borough
A municipal borough was a type of local government Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state. Local governments typically constitute a subdivision of a higher-level political or administrative unit, such a ... district which existed in England and Wales between 1836 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002. Broadly similar structures existed in Scotland from 1833 to 1975 with the reform of royal burghs and creation of police burghs. England and Wales Municipal Corporations Act 1835 Ancient borough, Boroughs had existed in England and Wales since Middle Ages, medieval times. By the late Middle Ages they had come under royal control, with municipal corporation, corporations established by royal charter. These corporations were not popularly elected: characteristically they were self-selecting Oligarchy, oligarchies, were nominated b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord-lieutenant
A lord-lieutenant ( ) is the British monarch's personal representative in each lieutenancy area of the United Kingdom. Historically, each lieutenant was responsible for organising the county's militia. In 1871, the lieutenant's responsibility over the local militia was removed. However, it was not until 1921 that they formally lost the right to call upon able-bodied men to fight when needed. Lord-lieutenant is now an honorary titular position usually awarded to a notable person in the county, and despite the name, may be either male or female, peer or not. Origins England and Wales Lieutenants were first appointed to a number of English counties by King Henry VIII in the 1540s, when the military functions of the sheriffs were handed over to them. Each lieutenant raised and was responsible for the efficiency of the local militia units of his county, and afterwards of the yeomanry and volunteers. He was commander of these forces, whose officers he appointed. These commissions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceremonial Counties Of England
Ceremonial counties, formally known as ''counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies'', are areas of England to which lord-lieutenant, lord-lieutenants are appointed. A lord-lieutenant is the Monarchy of the United Kingdom, monarch's representative in an area. Shrieval counties have the same boundaries and serve a similar purpose, being the areas to which High sheriff#England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, high sheriffs are appointed. High sheriffs are the monarch's judicial representative in an area. The ceremonial counties are defined in the Lieutenancies Act 1997, and the shrieval counties in the Sheriffs Act 1887. Both are defined as groups of Local government in England, counties used for local government. History The historic counties of England were originally used as areas for administering justice and organising the militia, overseen by a High sheriff, sheriff. From Tudor period, Tudor times onwards a lord-lieutenant was appointed to oversee the militia, taki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soke Of Peterborough County Council
Soke of Peterborough County Council was the county council of the Soke of Peterborough, a self-governing division within the historic county of Northamptonshire. It came into its powers on 1 April 1889 and was abolished on 1 April 1965. The county council was based at County Offices, Peterborough. It was amalgamated with Huntingdonshire County Council to form Huntingdon and Peterborough County Council in 1965.The Huntingdon and Peterborough Order 1964 (SI 1964/367), see Local Government Commission for England (1958–1967) The Local Government Commission for England was established by the Local Government Act 1958 to review the organisation of local government, and make ''"such proposals as are hereinafter authorised for effecting changes appearing to the Commissio ..., ''Report and Proposals for the East Midlands General Review Area'' (Report No.3), 31 July 1961 and ''Report and Proposals for the Lincolnshire and East Anglia General Review Area'' (Report No.9), 7 May 1965 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soke Of Peterborough
The Soke of Peterborough is a historic area of England associated with the City and Anglican Diocese of Peterborough, Diocese of Peterborough. It was part of Northamptonshire, but was administered by Soke of Peterborough County Council, its own county council, while the rest of Northamptonshire was administered by Northamptonshire County Council. The Soke (legal), Soke was also described as the Liberty (division), Liberty of Peterborough, or as the Nassaburgh Hundred (country subdivision), hundred, and comprised, besides Peterborough, about thirty parishes. The Soke was abolished in 1965. The area formed much of the present City of Peterborough unitary authority area in the post-1974 ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire. The Church of England dioceses of Peterborough and Diocese of Ely, Ely still, however, follow the boundary of the Soke, with only the part of the city that is north of the River Nene lying within the Diocese of Peterborough, while urban areas south of the Nene, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbot Of Peterborough
A list of the abbots of the abbey of Peterborough, known until the late 10th century as " Medeshamstede". Abbots Sources *'Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of Peterborough', ''A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 2'' (1906), pp. 83–95. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=40221. Date accessed: 29 May 2007. * Peterborough Chronicle. * Stenton, F.M., "Medeshamstede and its Colonies", in Stenton, D.M. (ed.), ''Preparatory to 'Anglo-Saxon England'being the collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton'', OUP, 1970. {{House of Plantagenet Lord High Treasurers Peterborough Peterborough ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in the City of Peterborough district in the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The city is north of London, on the River Nene. A ... Abbot of Peterborough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberty (division)
A liberty was an Kingdom of England, English geographic unit originating in the Middle Ages, traditionally defined as an area in which Jura regalia, regalian right was revoked and where the land was held by a mesne lord (i.e., an area in which rights reserved to the king had been devolution, devolved into private hands). It later became a unit of History of local government in England, local government administration. Liberties were areas of widely variable extent which were independent of the usual system of Hundred (country subdivision), hundreds and boroughs for a number of different reasons, usually to do with peculiarities of land tenure, tenure. Because of their tenurial rather than geographical origin, the areas covered by liberties could either be widely scattered across a county or limited to an area smaller than a single parish: an example of the former is Fordington (liberty), Fordington Liberty, and of the latter, the Waybayouse Liberty, Liberty of Waybayouse, both in D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nassaburgh
The Soke of Peterborough is a historic area of England associated with the City and Diocese of Peterborough. It was part of Northamptonshire, but was administered by its own county council, while the rest of Northamptonshire was administered by Northamptonshire County Council. The Soke was also described as the Liberty of Peterborough, or as the Nassaburgh hundred, and comprised, besides Peterborough, about thirty parishes. The Soke was abolished in 1965. The area formed much of the present City of Peterborough unitary authority area in the post-1974 ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire. The Church of England dioceses of Peterborough and Ely still, however, follow the boundary of the Soke, with only the part of the city that is north of the River Nene lying within the Diocese of Peterborough, while urban areas south of the Nene, including Stanground and Fletton, are in the Diocese of Ely. The term ''soke'' refers to a general legal term in medieval England referring to va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
