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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.
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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Rochdale Town Hall is a Victorian-era municipal building in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is "widely recognised as being one of the finest municipal buildings in the country", [ 4 ] and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building .
Rochdale 166,932 Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale: Manchester 2,732,854 23 38 Warrington 163,479 Includes the town of Great Sankey Chester 1,365,900 41 39 Mansfield 158,496 Ashfield and Mansfield: Nottingham 825,600 82 40 Swindon 155,970 Swindon: n/a n/a n/a 41 Reading 155,300 Reading, Berkshire: n/a n/a n/a 42 Blackburn 147,700 Blackburn with ...