Macclesfield (borough)

For the principal settlement of this borough, see Macclesfield. For the parliamentary constituency, see Macclesfield (UK Parliament constituency).

Borough of Macclesfield
Shown within Cheshire
History
• Origin	Macclesfield Municipal Borough Alderley Edge Urban District Bollington Urban District Knutsford Urban District Wilmslow Urban District Disley Rural District Macclesfield Rural District Bucklow Rural District (part of)
• Created	1 April 1974
• Abolished	31 March 2009
• Succeeded by	Cheshire East
Status	Non-metropolitan district
ONS code	13UG
• HQ	Macclesfield

Macclesfield was, from 1974 to 2009, a local government district with borough status in Cheshire, England. It included the towns of Bollington, Knutsford, Macclesfield and Wilmslow and within its wider area the villages and hamlets of Adlington, Disley, Gawsworth, Kerridge, Pott Shrigley, Poynton, Prestbury, Rainow, Styal, Sutton and Tytherington.

Creation

The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It was a merger of Macclesfield municipal borough, Alderley Edge, Bollington, Knutsford and Wilmslow urban districts, along with the single parish Disley Rural District, Macclesfield Rural District and part of Bucklow Rural District.

Civil Parishes

The borough contained 52 civil parishes and 2 discrete unparished areas (namely, the towns of Macclesfield and Wilmslow). Of the 52 civil parishes, five (Agden, Little Bollington, Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough, Tatton, and Wincle) held parish meetings rather than elect a parish council. Of the remaining 47 civil parishes, two contained towns (Bollington and Knutsford) and so had town councils rather than parish councils administering them. A number of adjacent or abutting civil parishes were grouped together under a single parish council: Ollerton with Marthall, Plumley with Toft and Bexton, and Tabley (for the parishes of Tabley Inferior and Tabley Superior) The remaining 37 civil parishes had their own parish council.

The following civil parishes were included in the borough:

• Adlington
• Agden
• Alderley Edge
• Ashley
• Aston by Budworth
• Bexton
• Bollington (town)
• Bosley
• Chelford
• Chorley
• Disley
• Eaton
• Gawsworth
• Great Warford
• Henbury
• High Legh
• Higher Hurdsfield
• Kettleshulme
• Knutsford (town)
• Little Bollington
• Little Warford
• Lower Withington
• Lyme Handley
• Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough
• Marthall
• Marton
• Mere
• Millington
• Mobberley
• Mottram St Andrew
• Nether Alderley
• North Rode
• Ollerton
• Over Alderley
• Peover Inferior
• Peover Superior
• Pickmere
• Plumley
• Pott Shrigley
• Poynton with Worth
• Prestbury
• Rainow
• Rostherne
• Siddington
• Snelson
• Sutton
• Tabley Inferior
• Tabley Superior
• Tatton
• Toft
• Wincle

Elections and political control

The political composition of the council at its abolition in 2009 was:

Party		Councillors
	Conservative	38
	Liberal Democrat	12
	Labour	6
	Handforth Ratepayer	2
	Independent	2

Abolition

In 2006 the Department for Communities and Local Government considered reorganising Cheshire's administrative structure as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England. The decision to merge the boroughs of Macclesfield, Congleton and Crewe and Nantwich to create a single unitary authority was announced on 25 July 2007, following a consultation period in which a proposal to create a single Cheshire unitary authority was rejected.

The Borough of Macclesfield was abolished on 1 April 2009, when the new Cheshire East unitary authority was formed.