Westmoreland is an area and

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in the south-west of

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. Although still shown on some

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mapping, Westmoreland is rarely used by residents as the name of an area of Bath, and is primarily used for electoral purposes within the

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unitary authority, electing two councillors. The name Westmoreland is probably derived from the house, Westmoreland Place (see 1818 and 1852 maps of Bath), that stood approximately where Westmoreland Street is today. Boundary changes for the electoral wards in Bath most recently took place at the May 2019 elections;Bath and North East Somerset
2018 ward review Westmoreland remained a ward but with altered boundaries. At that election, Westmoreland elected two independents, and was the only ward in the city ''not'' to return Liberal Democrats. Confusingly Westmoreland Street, Westmoreland Drive and Westmoreland Road, as well as the former Westmoreland goods station which closed in 1967, are not in the present-day ward, but about half a kilometre away in Oldfield Park ward.Ordnance Survey
Election maps Conversely, Oldfield Park railway station and a part of the Oldfield Park residential area, including Moorland Road which is a shopping district, is located in Westmoreland ward. Also in the ward is East Twerton and the one end of the Two Tunnels Greenway. The wards surrounding Westmoreland ward are: Oldfield Park to the east, Moorlands and Southdown to the south, Twerton to the west, and Newbridge and

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to the north over the River Avon, which forms the ward's northern boundary. Westmoreland has a considerable student population, from the

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and

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, both in private rental, and for Bath Spa University students accommodation blocks on former industrial land by the River Avon.

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