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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 9, 2020 17:03:29 GMT
Brightside is another one On the only occasion I have visited Sheffield (which was in the late 80s) me and my friend wanted to look at grim council estates and though scarcely having been deprived in that respect, what with seeing Park Hill and the Gleadless Valley etc, we thought we should head up to 'Brightside' which was then one of the safest Labour seats in the country. When we asked a man for directions he was like 'What do you want to go there for? there's nothing there but industry' |
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Post by iang on May 10, 2020 10:42:13 GMT
Tatton? Bosworth? Eddisbury? Bosworth? Obscure?? Something fairly significant happened there in 1485 |
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on May 10, 2020 19:26:55 GMT
they aren't even towns or even villages. At least North Hykeham & Lesmahagow are towns. Though apparently there was once a Tatton village. It's also a surname though it always seems to be hyphenated with -Brown when I've come across it. Eddisbury is a hill which gave its name to a hundred isn't it? Seems that Roxburgh is no longer a town, but in that instance isn't the mention in the seat appertaining to the old county name? Well there is a Market Bosworth (just as Harborough takes its name from Market Harborough). It is a tiny place though and only rates even a passing mention in the name of the ward which contains it (Cadeby, Carlton and Market Bosworth with Shackerstone) Do you also object to the Wycombe constituency for not specifying "High"? |
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Post by John Chanin on May 10, 2020 19:31:16 GMT
Yes but it's a strange description for the constituency when the seat contains Hinckley which is a town of decent size, and there is no town called simply Bosworth Quite so. The constituency should be called simply Hinckley, or Hinckley & Bosworth after the local District Council. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 10, 2020 19:33:20 GMT
Well there is a Market Bosworth (just as Harborough takes its name from Market Harborough). It is a tiny place though and only rates even a passing mention in the name of the ward which contains it (Cadeby, Carlton and Market Bosworth with Shackerstone) Do you also object to the Wycombe constituency for not specifying "High"? I don't understand the question - why do you say 'also' as if I had raised some objection to the omission of the word 'Market' in the cases of Bosworth and Harborough? |
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Post by greenhert on May 10, 2020 20:16:37 GMT
Yes but it's a strange description for the constituency when the seat contains Hinckley which is a town of decent size, and there is no town called simply Bosworth Quite so. The constituency should be called simply Hinckley, or Hinckley & Bosworth after the local District Council. And recommended as much on my blog post back when the Sixth Boundary Review (the one with 600 seats) was being conducted: alansgreenthoughts.blogspot.com/search?q=Hinckley |
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Post by belvoir on May 11, 2020 20:18:55 GMT
Tatton? Bosworth? Eddisbury? Bosworth? Obscure?? Something fairly significant happened there in 1485 No it didn't. Not a shred of evidence that battle took place near Bosworth. |
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Post by belvoir on May 11, 2020 20:21:34 GMT
Well there is a Market Bosworth (just as Harborough takes its name from Market Harborough). It is a tiny place though and only rates even a passing mention in the name of the ward which contains it (Cadeby, Carlton and Market Bosworth with Shackerstone) Do you also object to the Wycombe constituency for not specifying "High"? There's clearly a very large town of about 80,000 souls called Wycombe (which, by the way, is properly called Chepping Wycombe, not High Wycombe). But whether you call Bosworth, Market Bosworth, or whatever you like, it is still a small village. There's no comparison. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 12, 2020 7:13:47 GMT
"properly"? I've never heard of that & I'm officially old It was the old name for High Wycombe and was indeed the name of the pre-1885 parliamentary borough. The name survives in Chepping Wycombe parish which covers areas to the East of the town covering Flackwell Heath, Loudwater and Tylers Green. There is also a separate West Wycombe parish, so Wycombe is a most appropriate name for the whole |
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Post by Merseymike on May 12, 2020 7:19:29 GMT
"properly"? I've never heard of that & I'm officially old It was the old name for High Wycombe and was indeed the name of the pre-1885 parliamentary borough. The name survives in Chepping Wycombe parish which covers areas to the East of the town covering Flackwell Heath, Loudwater and Tylers Green. There is also a separate West Wycombe parish, so Wycombe is a most appropriate name for the whole You got there first! Also, the locals call the place just Wycombe anyway. Which reminds me that I said I'd do Wycombe and Beaconsfield.....Haven't forgotten |
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Post by iang on May 12, 2020 11:56:31 GMT
Bosworth? Obscure?? Something fairly significant happened there in 1485 No it didn't. Not a shred of evidence that battle took place near Bosworth. It's still called that, so it makes the place something more than obscure surely? |
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Post by Robert Waller on May 24, 2021 17:24:46 GMT
2011 Census
Age 65+ 21.4% 74/650
Owner-occupied 75.1% 67/650
Private rented 12.5% 428/650
Social rented 10.4% 570/650
White 98.3% 77/650
Black 0.2% 519/650
Asian 0.7% 596/650
Managerial & professional 33.9%
Routine & Semi-routine 25.0%
Degree level 26.1% 307/650
No qualifications 22.0% 368/650
Students 5.5% 585/650
2021 Census
Owner occupied 74.8% 57/573
Private rented 15.0% 438/573
Social rented 10.2% 511/573
White 97.2%
Black 0.3%
Asian 1.0%
Managerial & professional 35.6% 205/573
Routine & Semi-routine 23.1% 310/573
Degree level 30.3% 324/573
No qualifications 16.5% 358/573
General Election 2019: Sleaford and North Hykeham
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Caroline Johnson 44,683 67.1 +2.9
Labour Linda Edwards-Shea 12,118 18.2 -7.6
Liberal Democrats Olly Craven 5,355 8.0 +3.9
Lincolnshire Independent Marianne Overton 1,999 3.0
Green Simon Tooke 1,742 2.6 +1.1
Independent Caroline Coram 657 1.0
C Majority 32,565 48.9 +10.5
Electorate 2019 94,761
Turnout 66,554 70.2 -2.2
Conservative hold
Swing 5.3 Lab to C
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Post by john07 on Jun 4, 2021 14:24:21 GMT
Roughly 3000 population compared to North Hykeham's 13k - was surprised the latter was that high tbh. I think that will be beaten by Atcham (as in Shrewsbury and Atcham Constituency) with a population of 243. |
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