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Davyhulme (/ ˈ d eɪ v i h j uː m /) [1] is an area of Urmston, in the Trafford district, in Greater Manchester, England, and the historic county of Lancashire. The population at the 2011 census was 19,634.
Davyhulme was a parliamentary constituency in the Davyhulme suburb of Greater Manchester.It elected Conservative Winston Spencer-Churchill, grandson of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, as a Member of Parliament of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from its establishment for the 1983 general election until it was abolished for the 1997 general election.
Stretford and Urmston was created in 1997 from significant parts of the former constituencies of Davyhulme – a Conservative-held marginal whose last member was the Conservative Winston Churchill (grandson of the former Prime Minister) – and safely Labour Stretford, whose last member was Tony Lloyd ().
Davyhulme Sewage Works is the main waste water treatment works for the city of Manchester, England, and one of the largest in Europe.It was opened in 1894, and has pioneered the improvement of treatment processes.
Work began on what was originally named Davyhulme Park Hospital, established by the Barton-upon-Irwell Union, in 1926. [1] The Barton-upon-Irwell Union had been established in keeping with the requirement of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 for parishes to create unions offering provision to the poor. [2]
Boundary changes meant that the seat would notionally have been won by Labour in 1979 with a majority of 3,607. The sitting MP, Winston Churchill, moved to the newly created Davyhulme constituency which included part of the pre-1983 Stretford seat [34]
Davyhulme is an electoral ward of on Trafford Council, Trafford, Greater Manchester, covering Davyhulme. Created in 2023 following changes to the boundaries of the electoral wards, the ward incorporates the former Davyhulme East , Davyhulme West and Flixton wards.
Davyhulme Circle War Memorial: 1924 The war memorial is in the centre of a roundabout, and is in sandstone. It consists of a tall, slender, square cenotaph on a tall base with low buttresses, and is surmounted by a clock. Each face of the cenotaph is incised with a cross, and on the west face are inscriptions and the names of those lost in the ...