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Arlecdon and Frizington
Civil parish in Cumbria, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Arlecdon and Frizington is a civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The parish includes Arlecdon, Frizington, Rowrah and Asby.
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Arlecdon was an ancient parish within the historic county of Cumberland. The parish was subdivided into three townships: Frizington, Whillimoor, and an Arlecdon township which covered the area around the village and parish church and also included Asby.[2][3][4]
In 1882, a local government district called Arlecdon and Frizington was created, covering those two townships.[5][6] The Arlecdon and Frizington district was enlarged in 1894 to take in the Whillimoor township, after which the Arlecdon and Frizington district covered the whole parish of Arlecdon.[7] Later that year, local government districts were reconstituted as urban districts under the Local Government Act 1894.[8]
In 1919 John Adams led a successful election challenge to the sitting members of Arlecdon and Frizington District Council. This established the first all-Labour council to be elected in England. Adams held the office of Chairman of the Arlecdon and Frizington Urban District Council from 1919 to 1923.[citation needed]
Arlecdon and Frizington Urban District was abolished in 1934. The parish of Arlecdon it had covered was renamed Arlecdon and Frizington, given a parish council, and reclassified as a rural parish within the Ennerdale Rural District.[9] Ennerdale Rural District was abolished in 1974, becoming part of the Borough of Copeland in the new county of Cumbria.[10][11] Copeland was in turn abolished in 2023 when the new Cumberland Council was created, also taking over the functions of the abolished Cumbria County Council in the area.[12]
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Governance
There are two tiers of local government covering Arlecdon and Frizington, at civil parish and unitary authority level: Arlecdon and Frizington Parish Council and Cumberland Council.[13] The parish council generally meets at St Joseph's Community Hall in Frizington.[14]
Arlecdon and Frizington is within the Whitehaven and Workington UK parliamentary constituency, which has been represented by Josh MacAlister of the Labour Party since the 2024 general election.
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Demography
The population of the parish was 3,493 at the 2021 census.[1] This continued a decline from the previous two censuses. The parish had a population of 3,678 in the 2001 census,[15] decreasing to 3,607 at the 2011 census.[16]
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