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The Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in England. Its largest town is Rochdale and the wider borough covers other outlying towns and villages, including Heywood, Littleborough, Middleton & Milnrow. It is the ninth-largest district by population in Greater Manchester with a population of 226,992 in ...
Rochdale (/ ˈ r ɒ tʃ d eɪ l / ROTCH-dayl) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. [2] In the 2021 Census , the town had a population of 111,261, compared to 223,773 for the wider borough.
Borough of Rochdale may refer to three things associated with Rochdale, England: Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, a current borough of Greater Manchester, covering the town of Rochdale and the surrounding area Rochdale Borough Council, local government for the current borough; County Borough of Rochdale (1856–1974), former local government ...
Rochdale (/ ˈ r ɒ tʃ d eɪ l / ROTCH-dayl) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. [2] In the 2021 census the town had a population of 111,261, compared to 223,773 for the wider borough.
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The town of Rochdale had been governed by improvement commissioners from 1825. [3] In 1856 the town was incorporated as a municipal borough, governed by a body formally called the 'mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Rochdale', generally known as the corporation, town council or borough council. [4]
In 1900 the county borough absorbed the bulk of the neighbouring Castleton Urban District by mutual agreement. [5] The borough boundaries were extended again in 1933 by a county review order. [6] The county borough was abolished in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972. Its area formed part of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in the new ...
The town hall functions as the ceremonial headquarters of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council and houses local government departments, including the borough's civil registration office. Built in the Gothic Revival style at a cost of £160,000 (£18.8 million in 2025), [ 7 ] it was inaugurated for the governance of the Municipal Borough of ...