Kearsley Urban District
{{Short description|Former local government area in the UK}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox historic subdivision|
| Name = Kearsley Urban District
| Image =
| image_caption =
| AreaFirst = {{convert|1004|acre|km2|1}}{{cite web|author=Great Britain Historical GIS Project|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10002850/cube/AREA_ACRES#tab02|title=Kearsley UD: Area (acres)|website=A Vision of Britain through Time|publisher=University of Portsmouth|access-date=24 July 2016}}
| AreaFirstYear = 1911
| AreaLast = {{convert|1726|acre|km2|1}}
| AreaLastYear = 1961
| area_gained1 = Clifton and Ringley
| gained_from1 = Barton upon Irwell Rural District and Bury Rural District
| area_gained_year1 = 1933
| PopulationFirstYear = 1891
| PopulationLastYear = 1971
| Origin =
| Start = 1865
| End = 1974
| Replace = Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
| Status = {{Plainlist|
- Local board (1865–1895)
- Urban district (1895–1974)
}}
| Motto =
| HQ = Kearsley Town Hall
}}
Kearsley was, from 1865 to 1974, a local government district centred on the town of Kearsley in the administrative county of Lancashire, England.
History
Kearsley was a township in the civil and ecclesiastical parish of Deane in the Salford Hundred of Lancashire.{{cite book|editor1-last=Farrer|editor1-first=William|editor2-last=Brownbill|editor2-first=J.|year=1911|chapter=Salford hundred: The parish of Deane|chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol5/pp1-5|title=A History of the County of Lancaster|volume=5|work=Victoria County History|publisher=British History Online|pages=1–5|access-date=24 July 2016}} The township became part of the Bolton Poor Law Union on 1 February 1837 which took responsibility for funding the Poor Law within that Union area.{{cite web|last1=Higginbotham|first1=Peter|title=The Workhouse: Bolton, Lancashire|url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Bolton/|website=The Workhouse: The story of an institution...|access-date=24 July 2016}}
In 1865, a local board of health was adopted for the township of Kearsley.{{cite news|last=McBain|first=Gayle|date=30 September 2015|title=An historic day for Kearsley|url=http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/features/lookingback/13793042.An_historic_day_for_Kearsley/|newspaper= The Bolton News|access-date=24 July 2016}}{{cite book|editor1-last=Farrer|editor1-first=William|editor2-last=Brownbill|editor2-first=J.|year=1911|chapter=Townships: Kearsley|chapter-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol5/pp39-41|title=A History of the County of Lancaster|volume=5|work=Victoria County History|publisher=British History Online|pages=39–41|access-date=24 July 2016 }} The following year, Kearsley was also given the status of a civil parish.{{cite web|author=Great Britain Historical GIS Project|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10368625#tab02|title=Kearsley Tn/CP: Relationships and changes|website=A Vision of Britain through Time|publisher=University of Portsmouth|access-date=24 July 2016}}{{cite web|author=Great Britain Historical GIS Project|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/types/status_page.jsp?unit_status=CP|title=Status details for Civil Parish|website=A Vision of Britain through Time|publisher=University of Portsmouth|access-date=24 July 2016}} After the Public Health Act 1875 was passed by Parliament in that year, Kearsley Local Board assumed extra duties as an urban sanitary district, although the Local Board's title did not change.{{cite web|author=Great Britain Historical GIS Project|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10004792#tab02|title=Kearsley USD: Relationships and changes|website=A Vision of Britain through Time|publisher=University of Portsmouth|access-date=24 July 2016}}
Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1894, Kearsley Local Board was replaced by an elected urban district council of twelve members. Kearsley Urban District Council originally had just two electoral wards: East and West, but between 1921 and 1931 the East ward was abolished and two new wards were created: North and South, leaving the Urban District Council with a total of three wards.{{cite book|last=Tatton|first=Pauline|title=Local population statistics 1801–1986: abbreviated tables compiled from census statistics for Bolton|publisher=Bolton Libraries}} In 1933, Kearsley Urban District was extended to include parts of Clifton from the former Barton upon Irwell Rural District and the Ringley district from the former civil parish of Outwood which had been part of the former Bury Rural District.{{cite web|title=Greater Manchester Gazetteer|url=http://www.gmcro.co.uk/Guides/Gazeteer/gazzi.htm|accessdate=24 July 2016|publisher=Greater Manchester County Record Office|at=Place names – I to L|archivedate=18 July 2011|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718144253/http://www.gmcro.co.uk/Guides/Gazeteer/gazzi.htm#kearsley|url-status=dead}}
Under the Local Government Act 1972, Kearsley Urban District was abolished on 1 April 1974 and its former area became an unparished area in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester.{{cite web|author=Links in a Chain Project|url=http://www.boltonsmayors.org.uk/0-kearsley.html|title=Kearsley 1865–1974|website=Links in a Chain|access-date=24 July 2016}}
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Category:Urban districts of England
Category:Local government in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton
Category:History of Lancashire
Category:Local Government Districts created by the Local Government Act 1858
Category:Districts of England created by the Local Government Act 1894
Category:Districts of England abolished by the Local Government Act 1972