14-722: Ravensthorpe may refer to any of the following places. England [ edit ] Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury in West Yorkshire Ravensthorpe railway station , Dewsbury Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire Ravensthorpe, Peterborough in Cambridgeshire Ravensthorpe, an historic manor in the parish of Boltby , North Yorkshire Australia [ edit ] Ravensthorpe, Western Australia Shire of Ravensthorpe Ravensthorpe Airport Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
28-753: A slightly higher status and the right to appoint a mayor . Urban districts in the outer London area were absorbed into London Boroughs in 1965 as a consequence of the London Government Act 1963 . All remaining urban districts in England and Wales were abolished in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 , and replaced with a uniform system of larger districts – see Districts of England and Districts of Wales – which often covered both urban and rural areas. Many parish councils in England were created for towns previously covered by urban districts and, as
42-540: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury Ravensthorpe is an area of Dewsbury , in West Yorkshire , England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire , Ravensthorpe is on the western outskirts of Dewsbury and is part of the "Dewsbury West" ward in the district of Kirklees . The area has always been heavily industrial and
56-582: The Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) as subdivisions of administrative counties . A similar model of urban and rural districts was also established in Ireland in 1899, which continued separately in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland after 1921. They replaced the earlier system of urban and rural sanitary districts (based on poor law unions ) whose functions were taken over by
70-494: The Local Government Act 1929 saw a net decrease of 159 between 1932 and 1938. In many instances smaller urban districts were merged with their surrounding rural districts, with the result that new districts emerged covering rural as well as urban parishes. At the same time, a number of larger urban districts became municipal boroughs (as already created, in 1835 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 ): these had
84-581: The slum clearance programme. A brief poem from the time read. On 31 December 1894 Ravensthorpe became a civil parish , being formed from the part of the parish of Mirfield in Ravensthorpe Urban District, on 1 April 1925 the parish was abolished and merged with Dewsbury. In 1921 the parish had a population of 6719. From 1894 to 1910 Ravensthorpe was an urban district . There is a railway station in Ravensthorpe, off Calder Road, opened in
98-437: The 1894 Act came into force on 31 December 1894 there had been 753 urban districts, of which 692 had previously been local government districts , 30 had been improvement commissioners districts and 31 were places newly given urban powers in 1894. The number of urban districts initially increased after 1894 as more places sought urban powers, but implementation of the recommendations of a series of county reviews as established by
112-641: The 19th century, near the Thornhill Power Station. The station is on the Huddersfield Line and has a regular service to Huddersfield , Dewsbury and Leeds . From the 1960s onwards, immigrants moved into the area, especially from Pakistan . More recently, there has been a large immigration of Iraqi - Kurds , Hungarians and Romas ( Gypsies ) into the area. There were riots in February 2008, Pakistani and White British males began rioting against
126-460: The Kurdish community in retaliation for a group attack by Kurds on a local English man. In 2007 riots began between Asians and Roma, allegedly due to the fact that Roma were giving the area a bad reputation. After these riots, the population of Central Europeans (mostly Hungarians) decreased significantly. Pakistanis are still the majority ethnic group living in Ravensthorpe. In 2008, a new shopping park
140-526: The district councils. The district councils also had wider powers over local matters such as parks, cemeteries and local planning. An urban district usually contained a single parish , while a rural district might contain many. Urban districts were considered to have more problems with public health than rural areas, and so urban district councils had more funding and greater powers than comparable rural districts. Urban districts normally covered smaller towns, usually with populations of fewer than 30,000. When
154-568: The new textile mills . The Church of St Saviour was built in 1864 but was replaced in 1901 by a large Gothic revival church (Grade II listed ). Before the building of textile mills in the 1870s the main economic activity in the area was the production of malt for the brewing industry and coke production based around the mine in the Shill Bank area. Following the Second World War , large areas of Ravensthorpe were demolished as part of
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182-560: Was built next to the gyratory. Ravensthorpe is also home to the Dewsbury Bus Museum located on Foundry Street. Urban district (England and Wales) In England and Wales , an urban district was a type of local government district that covered an urbanised area. Urban districts had an elected urban district council ( UDC ), which shared local government responsibilities with a county council . In England and Wales , urban districts and rural districts were created in 1894 by
196-451: Was once bustling with textile mills. Despite its appearance, Ravensthorpe is not in fact a Norse name, but was coined in the 19th century by a local clergyman and historian to fit in with other Norse-named settlements in the area. It was formerly called Newtown and a large gasworks was built here in 1857. Ravensthorpe did not exist as a community until the middle of the 19th century when large numbers of houses were constructed alongside
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