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The Metropolitan Borough was formed on 1 April 1974 as a merger of the former County Borough of St Helens, along with the urban districts of Haydock, Newton-le-Willows and Rainford, and parts of Billinge-and-Winstanley and Ashton-in-Makerfield urban districts, along with part of Whiston Rural District, all from the administrative county of Lancashire.
Newton-le-Willows is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Bedale. [2] [3] Historically, it is part of the North Riding of Yorkshire and the Wapentake of Hang East. [4] Newton-le-Willows used to have a railway station on the Wensleydale Railway.
The main town in the district is St Helens, the others being Newton-le-Willows and Earlestown. Until the Industrial Revolution , the area was largely rural. Coal mining began in the 16th century, but modern industrial development began with the construction of the Sankey Canal in the late 18th century, linking St Helens with the River Mersey .
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Newton-le-Willows has held a market by Royal Charter since the 14th century. By the 1890s, the Earlestown area of Newton-le-Willows had outgrown the older part of the town and so the market was moved to its current location in Earlestown and the market square is the town's centre-piece.
Parkside Colliery was a coal mine in Newton-le-Willows, ... British Coal announced the intention to close loss-making pits, and "Less than 36 hours later, at 7.15 am ...
The population of the parish of Burtonwood continued to grow in 1951 partly due to the arrival of the United States Air Force (USAF) personnel and the but dropped from 8,238 to 4,899 in 1971, before rising to 11,265 today [1] as a result of housing development on the old RAF station site. Nowadays, there is work being done on the station and ...
Newton Community Hospital originally opened around 1924, on an older site further down Bradlegh Road. [1] In 2006, a planning application was submitted to allow for a development of a new building for the Newton Community Hospital, which was approved. [2] Construction begun and the hospital opened to patients in September 2008.