Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme

Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme shown within Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Non-metropolitan county	Staffordshire
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Newcastle-under-Lyme
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	Newcastle Borough Council
• Leadership	Leader and Cabinet (Labour (council NOC))
• MPs	Ruth Smeeth William Cash Paul Farrelly Karen Bradley
Area
• Total	211.0 km² (81.5 sq mi)
Area rank	163rd (of 326)
Population (mid-2015 est.)
• Total	127,000
• Rank	170th (of 326)
• Density	600/km² (1,600/sq mi)
• Ethnicity	98.9% White 1.1%South Asian
Time zone	GMT (UTC0)
• Summer (DST)	BST (UTC+1)
ONS code	41UE (ONS) E07000195 (GSS)
OS grid reference	SJ8463746024
Website	www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk

The Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme is a local government district with borough status in Staffordshire, England.

It is named after its main settlement, Newcastle-under-Lyme, where the council is based, but includes the town of Kidsgrove, the villages of Silverdale and Keele, and the rural area surrounding Audley. Most of the borough is part of The Potteries Urban Area.

The present town is originally a Roman settlement. In the Middle Ages there was a large castle here, owned by John of Gaunt, and a major medieval market. In 1835 Newcastle-under-Lyme Municipal Borough was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 which required that rate payers elected councillors. In 1932 it took in what had been the Wolstanton United Urban District, covering the parishes of Chesterton, Silverdale and Wolstanton, also taking the parish of Clayton from Newcastle-under-Lyme Rural District.

The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the Newcastle-under-Lyme Municipal Borough, the Kidsgrove Urban District, and Newcastle-under-Lyme Rural District.