Sefton
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Metropolitan Borough of Sefton | |
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Geography | |
Status: | Metropolitan borough |
Region: | North West England |
Ceremonial County: | Merseyside |
Historic County: | Lancashire |
Area: - Total |
Ranked 209th 153.14 km² |
Admin. HQ: | Bootle |
ONS code: | 00CA |
Demographics | |
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density |
Ranked 25th 280,900 1,834 / km² |
Ethnicity: | 98.4% White |
Politics | |
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council http://www.sefton.gov.uk/ |
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Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet |
Executive: | All party (3) |
MPs: | Joe Benton, Claire Curtis-Thomas, George Howarth, John Pugh |
Sefton is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. Its local authority is Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
Sefton was formed by the Local Government Act 1972 on April 1, 1974, by the amalgamation of the former county boroughs of Bootle and Southport, and, from the administrative county of Lancashire, the municipal borough of Crosby, the urban districts of Formby and Litherland, and part of the Rural District of West Lancashire. It was placed in the metropolitan county of Merseyside.
The borough consists of a coastal strip of land on the Irish Sea, and extends from Bootle, part of the Liverpool Urban Area, in the south, to Southport in the north. In the south-east, it extends inland to Maghull. The district is bounded by Liverpool to the south, the Knowsley to the south-east, and West Lancashire to the east.
It is named after the village and parish of Sefton, near Maghull. A Sefton Rural District covering some of the villages in the district had existed from 1894 to 1932.
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[edit] Politics
The existence of Sefton has been an ongoing local controversy, especially in Southport, MPs of which have campaigned for separation from Bootle, and possibly inclusion as a district in the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire.[1]
[edit] Economy
This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Sefton at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.
Year | Regional Gross Value Added | Agriculture | Industry | Services |
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1995 | 2,079 | 20 | 496 | 1,563 |
2000 | 2,500 | 8 | 468 | 2,024 |
2003 | 2,994 | 10 | 418 | 2,566 |
^ includes hunting and forestry
^ includes energy and construction
^ includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured
^ Components may not sum to totals due to rounding
[edit] Towns and Villages in Sefton
- Ainsdale, Aintree
- Birkdale, Blowick, Blundellsands, Bootle
- Churchtown, Crossens
- Ford, Formby
- Great Altcar, Great Crosby
- Hightown
- Ince Blundell
- Litherland, Little Altcar, Little Crosby, Lunt, Lydiate
- Maghull, Marshside, Melling
- Netherton
- Orrell
- Seaforth, Sefton, Southport
- Thornton
- Waterloo, Woodvale
[edit] Parliamentary constituencies
[edit] Town twinning
[edit] References
- ^ Final Recommendations on the Future Local Government of Sefton, Local Government Commission for England, November 1997
[edit] See Also
[edit] External links
Metropolitan County of Merseyside |
City of Liverpool |
Districts of North West England | ![]() |
Allerdale | Barrow-in-Furness | Blackburn with Darwen | Blackpool | Bolton | Burnley | Bury | Carlisle | Chester | Chorley | Congleton | Copeland | Crewe and Nantwich | Eden | Ellesmere Port and Neston | Fylde | Halton | Hyndburn | Knowsley | Lancaster | Liverpool | Macclesfield | Manchester | Oldham | Pendle | Preston | Ribble Valley | Rochdale | Rossendale | St Helens | Salford | Sefton | South Lakeland | South Ribble | Stockport | Tameside | Trafford | Vale Royal | Warrington | West Lancashire | Wigan | Wirral | Wyre |
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Counties with multiple districts: Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside |