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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.
St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council Election Results, 2019 Party Candidates Votes Stood Elected Gained Unseated Net % of total % No. Net % Labour: 16 10 0 4 4 36.4: 14,276 Green: 14 2 2 0 2 24.6 9,651 Liberal Democrats: 6 2 1 0 1 14.3 5,623 Conservative: 16 1 0 0 14.2 5,552 Independent: 1 1 1 0 1 7.0 2,753 UKIP: 3 0 0 0 3.5 1,356
Newton-le-Willows is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England. The population at the 2021 census was 24,642. [ 2 ] Newton-le-Willows is on the eastern edge of St Helens, south of Wigan and north of Warrington , equidistant to Liverpool and Manchester .
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The village is small, with only three bus routes through it, (Arriva North West 329 to St Helens, Warrington's Own Buses 24E to Newton Le-Willows which only runs through the village twice a day (subject to rural bus grant) and Ogden 141 (St Helens to Newton) run on behalf of Merseytravel). [4]
The seat includes the large town of St Helens, noted by visitors for its successful rugby league side and the nearby horseracing racecourse at Haydock Park.Despite these prominent sports venues, workless claimants, registered jobseekers, were in November 2012 higher than the national average of 3.8%, at 4.7% of the population based on a statistical compilation by The Guardian, which was close ...
The borough consisted of the parish of Newton-le-Willows in the Makerfield district of South Lancashire.It was first enfranchised in 1558 (though the Parliament so summoned did not meet until the following year), and was a rotten borough from its inception: Newton was barely more than a village even at this stage, and so entirely dominated by the local landowner that its first return of ...
A local legend maintains that the willows that line the beck to the north of the village, of which there is a good view from the dining room and terrace of the pub, inspired Kenneth Grahame to write The Wind in the Willows. [15] The village to the east is Newton-le-Willows. [16]