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BILLINGE-AND-WINSTANLEY URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL

Catalogue reference: UD BW

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This record is about the BILLINGE-AND-WINSTANLEY URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL dating from 1838-1974.

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Reference
UD BW
Title
BILLINGE-AND-WINSTANLEY URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
Date
1838-1974
Description

Records regarding clerks, treasurers, surveyors, public health and others.

Related material

<p>Some duplicate U.D.C. minute books are to be found in the list below.</p>

Held by
Wigan Archives and Local Studies
Language
English
Creator(s)
  • <corpname>Billinge-and-Winstanley Urban District Council, 1894 - 1974</corpname>
  • <corpname>Billinge-and-Winstanley UDC, 1894 - 1974</corpname>
  • <corpname>Billinge Urban District Council</corpname>
  • <corpname>Billinge UDC</corpname>
Physical description
72 Files
Administrative / biographical background

Billinge Local Board was formed in 1872, and its district comprised the townships of Billinge Chapel End and Higher End and also part of Winstanley.

The Local Board was succeeded in 1894 by an Urban District Council of the same name, and covering the same area; it later became known as Billinge-and-Winstanley Urban District Council.

Responsibility for the area was divided in 1974; Winstanley and Billinge Higher End became part of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council and Billinge Chapel End St. Helens Metropolitan Borough Council.

The following catalogue is mainly of Billinge Local Board records, the U.D.C. records being in the charge of St. Helens Local History Librarian, St. Helens Library. A list of the records at St. Helens is available on request please ask for the Recs A1 catalogue.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/f91dc15b-a4d9-4223-9b54-1c4d5c839c1a/

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BILLINGE-AND-WINSTANLEY URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL