East Ecclesfield

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East Ecclesfield
East Ecclesfield
Shown within Sheffield
District: Sheffield
UK Parliament constituency: Sheffield Hillsborough
Ceremonial county: South Yorkshire
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Population (2001): 17,800
Councillors
Victoria Bowden (Liberal Democrats)
Patricia Fox (Liberal Democrats)
Graham Oxley (Liberal Democrats)

East Ecclesfield ward—which includes the districts of Chapeltown and Ecclesfield—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the northern part of the city and covers an area of 9.8 km2 in the eastern part of Ecclesfield Parish. The population of this ward in 2001 was 17,800 people in 8,400 households. East Ecclesfield is one of the six wards that make up the Sheffield Hillsborough Parliamentary constituency. The Boundary Commission for England, in their final report, recommended that East Ecclesfield should become part of a reformed Penistone constituency.

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[edit] Districts in East Ecclesfield ward

[edit] Ecclesfield

Ecclesfield (grid reference SK353942) is a village, now a northern suburb of Sheffield. It lies near the railway line from Sheffield to Barnsley. Famous for the Black Bull Pub.

Ecclesfield constitutes a civil parish, which according to the 2001 census had a population of 31,609. This makes it the largest civil parish in England not to be a town or city.

Until 1953, Ecclesfield had a station (see here).

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[edit] Chapeltown

Chapletown (grid reference SK355963) lies to the north of Ecclesfield. It has its own railway station and a junction on the M1.


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