Municipal Borough Of Chorley
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The Municipal Borough of Chorley was a local government district in the
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of
Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated ''Lancs'') is a ceremonial county in North West England. It is bordered by Cumbria to the north, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the east, Greater Manchester and Merseyside to the south, and the Irish Sea to ...
, England, with
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status and coterminate with the town of
Chorley Chorley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England, north of Wigan, south west of Blackburn, north west of Bolton, south of Preston and north west of Manchester. The town's wealth ca ...
.


History

Lying within the boundaries of the historic county of
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since the early 12th century, Chorley was originally a
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in the
ancient parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
of
Croston Croston is a village and civil parish near Chorley in Lancashire, England. The River Yarrow flows through the village. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 2,917. History Croston was founded in the 7th century whe ...
until 1793 when it became a
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and
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in its own right. Following the
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, Chorley joined with other
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s (or
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es) in the area to become head of the Chorley
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on 26 January 1837 which took responsibility for the administration and funding of the
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within that Union area. Although Chorley had been an independent civil parish since 1793, the old-fashioned government by a chief and deputy
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s, with assistants, continued until 1853, when a Board of
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was formed. Ten years later, the Commissioners held a meeting on 29 October 1863 and they duly adopted portions of the
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and the
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. In 1881, under the
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, a charter of incorporation was obtained for the town. The Municipal Borough of Chorley was governed by a
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and council of eight
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and twenty-four
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s, chosen equally from four wards — North, East, South and West. The borough's population remained roughly static in the 20th century, with the 1911
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showing 30,315 people and the 1961 census showing 31,315. It was enlarged by gaining from parts of the civil parishes of
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,
Euxton Euxton ( ) is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Chorley, Lancashire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 9,993, but is now estimated to be around 14,000 due to housing developments in the village, including at Buckshaw. ...
and
Heath Charnock Heath Charnock is a small village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley in Lancashire, England. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001 it has a population of 2,065, reducing to 2,026 at the 2011 Census. Location Heath Charnock is next ...
in 1934. Under the
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, the municipal borough was abolished on 1 April 1974 and its former area became the core of the larger non-metropolitan
Borough of Chorley The Borough of Chorley is a local government district with borough status in Lancashire, England. It is named after the town of Chorley, which is an unparished area. The borough extends to several villages and hamlets including Adlington, B ...
.


Demography


List of mayors

The following is a list of mayors of the Municipal Borough of Chorley: * 1881–1883: Augustus William Smethurst * 1883–1884: Thomas Anderton * 1884–1885: Thomas Whittle * 1885–1886: John Heald * 1886–1887: Thomas Forrester * 1887–1889: Arthur George Leigh * 1889–1891: Sir Henry Fleming Hibbert * 1891–1893: John Whittle * 1893–1894: James Lawrence * 1894–1896: Thomas Howarth * 1896–1897: Humphrey Norris Whittle * 1897–1900: Bertram Jackson * 1900–1902: George Thomas Brown (1st term) * 1902–1904: Henry Bradley * 1904–1905: George Thomas Brown (2nd term) * 1905–1907: James Sharples * 1907–1909: James Winder Stone * 1909–1911: Henry William Hitchen * 1911–1912: Alban Jolly * 1912–1913: William Henry Killick * 1913–1915: Ralph Hindle * 1915–1917: James Turner * 1917–1920: Lewis Wilson * 1920–1922: John Fearnhead * 1922–1924: John Sharples (1st term) * 1924–1925: John Karfoot * 1925–1925: John Sharples (2nd term) * 1925–1927: Arnold Gillett (1st term) * 1927–1930: Ernest Ashton * 1930–1931: Arnold Gillett (2nd term) * 1931–1933: Bertha Maud Gillett * 1933–1935: Peter Henry Hodgkinson * 1935–1936: William Wilcock (1st term) * 1936–1939: Ralph Gent * 1939–1942: Tom Hamer * 1942–1944: Fredric Brindle * 1944–1946: John Green * 1946–1947: Richard Evans * 1947–1949: Ernest Warburton * 1949–1950: Samuel Cookson * 1950–1951: George Brown Fletcher * 1951–1952: Charles Williams * 1952–1953: Thomas Heaton * 1953–1954: Edith May Edwards * 1954–1955: Bertram Harry Gaskell * 1955–1956: William Wilcock (2nd term) * 1956–1957: Willie Lowe * 1957–1958: Thomas Grime * 1958–1959: Edith Cunliffe * 1959–1960:
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* 1960–1961: Wilfred Rawcliffe MBE JP * 1961–1962: George Reginald Rigby * 1962–1963: Alic Robert Sheppard * 1963–1964: David Dunn * 1964–1965: Ian Sellars * 1965–1966: Tom Clifton Shorrock * 1966–1967: George Frederick Jones * 1967–1968: Annie Forshaw * 1968–1969: Walter Bleasdale * 1969–1970: Adam Barnes * 1970–1971: Thomas Rowlandson * 1971–1972: Henry Vickers Davies * 1972–1973: Dennis Edmund Seabrook * 1973–1974: William Wilcock (3rd term)


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chorley Local government in Chorley History of Lancashire Municipal boroughs of England 1881 establishments in England Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972
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