Arlecdon and Frizington is a

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in the

Borough of Copeland The Borough of Copeland is a local government district with borough status in western Cumbria, England. Its council is based in Whitehaven. It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the Borough of Whitehaven, Ennerdale Rural District ...

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, England. The parish had a population of 3,678 in the 2001 census, decreasing to 3,607 at the 2011 census. The parish includes

Arlecdon Arlecdon is a village in the Borough of Copeland in Cumbria, England, near the town of Whitehaven. Church St Michael's Parish church is an historic Grade II listed church, which is located about halfway between the villages of Arlecdon and Asby ...

Frizington Frizington is a village in Cumbria, England, historically part of Cumberland, near the Lake District National Park. Historically, it was a collection of farms and houses, but became a unified village as a result of the mining (both coal and ir ...

Rowrah Rowrah is a village in Cumbria, England, and spans the civil parishes of Arlecdon and Frizington and Lamplugh. The majority of Rowrah is within Arlecdon and Frizington. The parish boundaries are formed from the Windergill Beck and Colliergate B ...

and Asby. It constituted an

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from 1894. In 1919

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led a successful election challenge to the sitting members of Arlecdon and Frizington District Council. This established the first all-Labour council to be elected in England. Adams held the office of Chairman of the Arlecdon and Frizington Urban District Council from 1919 to 1923. In 1934, it became part of

Ennerdale Rural District Ennerdale was a rural district in the county of Cumberland in England from 1934 to 1974. It was created in 1934 by a County Review Order, by the merger of the urban districts of Arlecdon and Frizington, Cleator Moor, Egremont, and Harrington ...

, which was later subsumed in 1974 into

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Governance

Arlecdon and Frizington is within the Copeland UK Parliamentary constituency.

Trudy Harrison Trudy Lynne Harrison (born 19 April 1976) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Copeland since the February 2017 by-election. It was the first time Copeland had elected a Conservative MP sinc ...

is the

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. Before

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, it was in the

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European Parliamentary Constituency. The Parish Council is named ''Arlecdon & Frizington Parish Council''. The parish falls in the

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of Arlecdon. This ward stretches south to Weddicar and has a total population taken at the 2011 census of 1,500.

References

External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Arlecdon
(nb: provisional research only - see Talk page) Civil parishes in Cumbria Borough of Copeland {{Cumbria-geo-stub

Governance

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