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

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and ecclesiastical parish of Deane in the

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of Lancashire. The township became part of the Bolton Poor Law Union on 1 February 1837 which took responsibility for funding the

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within that Union area. In 1865, a local board of health was adopted for the township of Kearsley. The following year, Kearsley was also given the status of a civil parish. After the

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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. 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. In 1933, Kearsley Urban District was extended to include parts of

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from the former

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and the Ringley district from the former civil parish of Outwood which had been part of the former Bury Rural District. Under the

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, 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.

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