Standish-with-Langtree
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Standish-with-Langtree was, and to a limited extent remains, a local government district centred on Standish, Lancashire, in North West England. Historically it was an ancient township in the hundred of West Derby and county of Lancashire. This unit was abolished in 1974 following the Local Government Act 1972,[1] the same act which established Greater Manchester.
History
The township of Standish-with-Langtree was historically one of the ten administrative subdivisions of the ecclesiastical parish of Standish. In 1861, the population of the whole parish was 10,410 with Standish-with-Langtree having 3,054 people.[2]
The township became a local board of health area in 1872 following the Local Government Act 1858. It became an urban district of the administrative county of Lancashire, after the Local Government Act 1894[1] and is now an unparished area.
In 1974 under Local Government Act 1972 the urban district was absorbed into Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council.[2] No successor parish was formed so it became unparished.
Today
The area is now represented by the Standish with Langtree ward, an electoral division of Wigan Metropolitan Borough. The population of the Ward, taken at the 2011 census was 12,182.[3]
References
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- Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894
- Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972
- History of Lancashire
- History of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
- Local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
- Unparished areas in Greater Manchester
- Former civil parishes in Greater Manchester
- Standish, Greater Manchester