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Politics & Government information for West Bridgford and places above it in the hierarchy

West Bridgford

  • This place was an ancient parish in Nottingham county and became a modern Civil Parish in December, 1866.
     
  • The township of Gamston became its own Civil Parish when West Bridgford was formed as a Civil Parish.
     
  • The parish was in the southern division of the ancient Bingham Hundred (Wapentake) in the southern division of the county.
     
  • In March, 1889, this parish was reduced in size to enlarge Edwalton Civil Parish.
     
  • In April, 1935, this parish was enlarged by 831 acres when Edwalton Civil Parish was abolished.
     
  • In April, 1935, this parish was enlarged by 1,548 acres when South Wilford Civil Parish was abolished.
     
  • North Wilford was amalgamated into the City of Nottingham.
     
  • The village is now part of the Rushcliffe Borough Council. Several Wards were created to compensate for the large population (Lady Bay, Edwalton, Abbey, Compton Acres.)
     

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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