Cheadle And Gatley Urban District
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Cheadle and Gatley was an administrative district in
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, England, from 1886 until 1974. It was a
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from 1886 to 1894 and then an
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from 1894 until 1974.


History

The Cheadle and Gatley local government district was created in 1886. It was administered by an elected local board. The district covered the parts of the
township A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
of Cheadle that were not within the
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boundaries of
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, plus the township of Stockport Etchells, which was a detached part of the parish of Stockport in which the main settlement was
Gatley Gatley is a suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, 3 miles north-east of Manchester Airport. History Toponymy Within the boundaries of the Historic counties of England, historic county of Cheshire, in 12 ...
. Local government districts were reconstituted as urban districts under the
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. The 1894 Act also said that
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(including townships such as Cheadle and Stockport Etchells) could no longer straddle district or borough boundaries. Cheadle parish was therefore reduced to just cover the area within the urban district. The urban district then contained the two civil parishes of Cheadle and Stockport Etchells until 1930, when they were merged into a single parish called Cheadle and Gatley covering the whole urban district. The urban district council used Bruntwood Hall as its town hall from 1944 to 1959, and
Abney Hall Abney Hall is a Victorian house surrounded by a park in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, () built in 1847. It is a Grade II* listed building. History Early history The foundations of the hall were laid in 1842 on the site of Cheadle Gr ...
from 1960 to 1974. Cheadle and Gatley Urban District was abolished in 1974 under the
Local Government Act 1972 The Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974. It was one of the most significant acts of Parliament to be passed by the Heath Gov ...
. The area became part of the
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in
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. Between 2004 and 2023 there was a Cheadle and Gatley electoral ward, which covered a smaller area than the pre-1974 urban district.


References


Further reading

Bowden, Tom. ''Community and Change''. Manchester: E. J. Morten, 1974. {{coord, 53, 23, N, 2, 13, W, display=title Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894 Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 Local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport History of Cheshire History of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport Urban districts of England Cheadle, Greater Manchester Cheadle Hulme