Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale : Ask Biography

Administration

Full name

Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale

Official name

Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale

Settlement type

Metropolitan borough

Sovereign state

United Kingdom

Constituent country

England

Region

North West England

Ceremonial county

Greater Manchester

Admin HQ

Rochdale (Town Hall)

Founded

1 April 1974

Government

Type

Metropolitan borough

Governing body

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Mayor

Cllr. Zulfiqar Ali

MPs:

Simon Danczuk (L)
Jim Dobbin (LC)

Demography

Total Population

(Ranked ) ( )

Ethnicity
(United Kingdom Estimate 2006)

86.5% White
11.4% S.Asian or mixed
1.4% Black or mixed
0.8% Chinese or other

Other information

Time zone

Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0)

Postcodes

OL & M

Area code

0161 / 01706

ISO 3166-2

GB-RCH

ONS code

00BQ

OS grid reference

NUTS 3

UKD32

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The Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after its largest town, Rochdale, but spans a far larger area which includes the towns of Middleton, Heywood, Littleborough and Milnrow, and the village of Wardle.

The borough was formed in 1974 as part of the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 and is an amalgamation of six former local government districts. It was originally proposed that the borough include the neighbouring town of Bury and disclude Middleton; Bury however went on to form the administrative centre for the adjacent Metropolitan Borough of Bury.

The borough, which lies directly north-northeast of the City of Manchester, has a population of 206,500, and although most parts are highly industrialised and densely populated, contiguous with one of the United Kingdom's major cities, some of the borough consists of rural open space, for the most part due the territory in the eastern half stretching across Blackstone Edge and the Pennine hills.