15-630: Claughton may refer to: Places [ edit ] United Kingdom [ edit ] Claughton, Lancaster Claughton, Wyre (also known as Claughton-on-Brock) Claughton, Merseyside Claughton (ward) , an electoral ward of the Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council United States [ edit ] Claughton Island, another name for Brickell Key , Miami, Florida Persons [ edit ] Sir Gilbert Claughton, 1st Baronet , chairman of
30-537: A castle. In Wales, the term electoral ward is used for elections to principal councils ( county councils or county borough councils ). These were formally called electoral divisions . Communities in Wales (the equivalent to the civil parish in England) are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the community council. All of Scotland is divided into over 300 wards for local government elections. Using
45-562: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Claughton, Lancaster Claughton ( / ˈ k l æ f t ən / KLAF -tən ) is a small village and civil parish in the City of Lancaster in Lancashire , England. The village is on the A683 road east of Lancaster and at the time of the 2001 census had a population of 132. In
60-1030: Is divided into wards, which are ancient and very long-standing sub-divisions of the city. The Council of the Isles of Scilly is also a sui generis unitary authority, and has five wards, each returning either 1 or (in the case of St Mary's ) 12 councillors to the Council of the Isles of Scilly. Civil parishes in England are sometimes divided into wards for elections to the parish council (or town / city council ). They need not bear any relation to wards or electoral divisions at district level, but often do. The four most northerly ancient counties of England – Cumberland , Westmorland , County Durham and Northumberland – were historically divided into administrative units called wards instead of hundreds or wapentakes , as in other counties. Wards were areas originally organised for military purposes, each centred on
75-577: The 2011 census Claughton was grouped with Roeburndale (2001 pop. 76) to give a total of 223. North of the village is the River Lune , and to the south is Claughton Moor and the fells of the Forest of Bowland . Claughton is part of the Lower Lune Valley ward , which elects two councillors to Lancaster City Council every four years. There is a brickworks , Claughton Brickworks, in
90-460: The electoral ward is the unit used by Welsh principal councils , while the electoral division is the unit used by English county councils and some unitary authorities . Each ward/division has an average electorate of about 5,500 people, but ward population counts can vary substantially. As of 2021 there are 8,694 electoral wards/divisions in the UK. An average area of wards or electoral divisions in
105-653: The single transferable vote , most wards elect either three or four councillors. Starting from the 2022 Scottish local elections , the Scottish Elections (Reform) Act 2020 , allows electoral wards to have between one and five councillors. Districts in Northern Ireland are divided into electoral areas, with each electing between five and seven councillors by single transferable vote. These are themselves sub-divided into wards, but these wards have no official function. Post-1973 wards were first created by
120-594: The 11am from Morecambe to Skipton called at Claughton at 11.35. [REDACTED] Media related to Claughton, Lancaster at Wikimedia Commons Wards of the United Kingdom The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level, represented by one or more councillors . The ward is the primary unit of English electoral geography for civil parishes and borough and district councils,
135-637: The London and North Western Railway George Claughton , rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 1980s for Castleford Hugh Claughton , British cricketer John Alan Claughton , British cricketer Piers Calverley Claughton , British bishop Thomas Legh Claughton , British academic, poet and clergyman Thomas Claughton (MP) British MP Gruffydd Evans, Baron Evans of Claughton , British solicitor and politician Other [ edit ] LNWR Claughton Class , steam locomotives, named after Sir Gilbert Claughton [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
150-466: The United Kingdom is 28.109 km (10.853 sq mi). The London boroughs , metropolitan boroughs and non-metropolitan districts (including most unitary authorities ) are divided into wards for local elections. However, county council elections (as well as those for several unitary councils which were formerly county councils, such as the Isle of Wight and Shropshire Councils ) instead use
165-487: The same number of electors, and each elect three councillors. In local authorities with mixed urban and rural areas, the number of councillors may vary from one to three, depending on the size of the electorate. Where civil parishes exist, a ward can be adjacent with a civil parish or consist of groups of civil parishes. Larger civil parishes (such as Shrewsbury ) can be divided into two or more wards. The City of London has its own sui generis form of local government and
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#1732787386069180-426: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Claughton&oldid=943271253 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
195-420: The site as early as 1100. The railway station (actually a crossing cottage ) was on the "Little" North Western Railway at 54°05′43.47″N 2°40′2.15″W / 54.0954083°N 2.6672639°W / 54.0954083; -2.6672639 . Trains running between Lancaster Green Ayre railway station and Wennington railway station stopped at Claughton between Caton and Hornby . In 1853, for example,
210-435: The term electoral division . In non-metropolitan county areas with both wards (used for district council elections) and electoral divisions (used for county council elections), the boundaries of the two types of divisions may sometimes not coincide, but more often the county electoral divisions will be made up of one or more complete wards. In urban areas, the wards within a local authority area typically each contain roughly
225-580: The village. Ropeway conveyors , which transport clay from Claughton Moor to the Claughton Brickworks, are suspended above the road ( A683 ). St Chad's Church was closed by the Church of England in 2002 due to a decline in the number of worshippers and the fact that the building was in need of modernisation. The church was part of the Hornby with Claughton parish . There was a church on
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