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See Sefton, New South Wales for the suburb of Sydney, Australia.

Metropolitan Borough of Sefton
Geography
Status:	Metropolitan borough
Region:	North West England
Ceremonial County:	Merseyside
Historic County:	Lancashire
Area: - Total	Ranked 209th 153.14 km²
Admin. HQ:	Bootle
ONS code:	00CA
Demographics
Population: - Total (2005 est.) - Density	Ranked 25th 280,900 1,834 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.4% White
Politics
Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council http://www.sefton.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	All party (3)
MPs:	Joe Benton, Claire Curtis-Thomas, George Howarth, John Pugh

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Sefton was formed by the Local Government Act 1972 on April 1, 1974, by the amalgamation of the former county boroughs of Bootle and Southport, and, from the administrative county of Lancashire, the municipal borough of Crosby, the urban districts of Formby and Litherland, and part of the Rural District of West Lancashire. It was placed in the metropolitan county of Merseyside. The Local Government Act 1972 (1972 c. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... County borough was a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom to refer to a borough or a city independent of county administration. ... Bootle is a town in Sefton, Merseyside, North West England, within the traditional borders of Lancashire. ... For other uses, see Southport (disambiguation). ... Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... A borough is a political division originally used in England. ... Antony Gormleys Another Place on Crosby Beach Crosby is a suburban area and Parliamentary Constituency of Sefton, Merseyside, North West England. ... In the British Isles an urban district was a type of local government district which covered an urbanised area. ... Formby is a town on the Irish Sea coast of North West England. ... Litherland is a district in Sefton, Merseyside, North West England. ... In local government on the British Isles, a rural district was a predominantly rural area used for local government. ... West Lancashire was a rural district from 1894 to 1974. ... The six metropolitan counties shown within England The metropolitan counties are a type of county-level subnational entity in current use in England. ... Arms of the former Merseyside Metropolitan County Council Merseyside is a county, located in the North West of England. ...

The borough consists of a coastal strip of land on the Irish Sea, and extends from Bootle, part of the Liverpool Urban Area, in the south, to Southport in the north. In the south-east, it extends inland to Maghull. The district is bounded by Liverpool to the south, the Knowsley to the south-east, and West Lancashire to the east. Relief map of the Irish Sea. ... Bootle is a town in Sefton, Merseyside, North West England, within the traditional borders of Lancashire. ... The Liverpool Urban Area is a name given by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to the urban area of Liverpool and the built-up areas immediately adjacent to it. ... Statistics Population: 28,848 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SD373027 Administration District: Sefton Metropolitan county: Merseyside Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Merseyside Historic county: Lancashire Services Police force: Merseyside Police Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: North West Post office and telephone... Liverpool skyline. ... Knowsley is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Merseyside, England. ... West Lancashire is a local government district in Lancashire, England. ...

It is named after the village and parish of Sefton, near Maghull. A Sefton Rural District covering some of the villages in the district had existed from 1894 to 1932. Sefton is a village in the Metropolitan borough of Sefton in Mersyside, England. ... Statistics Population: 28,848 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SD373027 Administration District: Sefton Metropolitan county: Merseyside Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Merseyside Historic county: Lancashire Services Police force: Merseyside Police Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: North West Post office and telephone... Sefton was a rural district in Lancashire, England from 1894 to 1932. ...

Politics

The existence of Sefton has been an ongoing local controversy, especially in Southport, MPs of which have campaigned for separation from Bootle, and possibly inclusion as a district in the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire.^[1] A shire county or non-metropolitan county in England, is a county level entity which is not a metropolitan county. ... Lancashire is a county in North West England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...

Economy

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Sefton at current basic prices published (pp.240-253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

↑  includes hunting and forestry

↑  includes energy and construction

↑  includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

↑  Components may not sum to totals due to rounding

Towns and Villages in Sefton

• Ainsdale, Aintree
• Birkdale, Blowick, Blundellsands, Bootle
• Churchtown, Crossens
• Ford, Formby
• Great Altcar, Great Crosby
• Hightown
• Ince Blundell
• Litherland, Little Altcar, Little Crosby, Lunt, Lydiate
• Maghull, Marshside, Melling
• Netherton
• Orrell
• Seaforth, Sefton, Southport
• Thornton
• Waterloo, Woodvale

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Parliamentary constituencies

See also: List of Parliamentary constituencies on Merseyside

• Southport
• Crosby
• Bootle
• Knowsley North and Sefton East

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Town twinning

• Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Gdańsk, Poland

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References

1. ^ Final Recommendations on the Future Local Government of Sefton, Local Government Commission for England, November 1997

See Also

• Sefton Short Film Festival - Annual North Liverpool Short Film Festival

S2F2, the Sefton Short Film Festival is an independent film festival based in Sefton, North Liverpool. ...

External links

• Sefton Council
• Vision of Britain