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Politics & Government information for East Retford and places above it in the hierarchy

East Retford

  • This place was an ancient parish in county Nottingham and became a modern Civil Parish when those were established.
     
  • The parish was in the North Clay district of the ancient Bassetlaw Wapentake (Hundred) in the northern division of the county.
     
  • The East Retford Borough Act of July, 1878, reset boundaries for the parishes and the borough and defined the three wards for voting.
     
  • On 1st April, 1921, the three Civil Parishes of Ordsall, North Retford and West Retford were abolished and the areas amalgamated into an enlarged East Retford Civil Parish.
     
  • District governance is provided by the Bassetlaw District Council.
     

Nottinghamshire

  • For ease of administration the county was sub-divided into Wapentakes, which subsequently became known as Hundreds. In the Middle Ages there were six Wapentakes: Newark, Bassetlaw, Thurgarton, Rushcliffe, Broxtowe, and Bingham. By the sixteenth century they ceased to have real administrative importance but remained as a useful way of discussing the geography of the county, hence Dr Robert Thoroton's use of these divisions for his 'progress' around the county: Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677).
     
  • The modern Nottingham County Council was formed in 1889 of fifty-one councillors and 17 aldermen. Lord BELPER was the first chairman.
     
  • The City of Nottingham was part of Nottinghamshire until 1998, but is now a Unitary authority.
     

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