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Village in England
Little Altcar
is a village and
civil parish
in the
Metropolitan Borough of Sefton
on
Merseyside
, within the boundaries of the
historic county
of
Lancashire
and on the
West Lancashire Coastal Plain
of
England
. The village forms part of the built-up area of
Formby
. It had a population of 892 in the 2001 Census,
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increasing to 910 at the 2011 Census.
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Etymology
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The name Altcar is Norse meaning 'marsh by the
River Alt
'.
Governance
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Local Government
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Little Altcar has two tiers of local government, at parish and metropolitan borough level: Little Altcar Parish Council, and
Sefton Council
. Sefton is also a constituent part of the
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
.
The civil parish now called Little Altcar was created in 1974 as a result of the
Local Government Act 1972
, which split the former parish of Altcar between Lancashire and the new metropolitan county of Merseyside. The parts in each county became new parishes, with the parish in Lancashire taking the name
Great Altcar
. The parish in Merseyside was initially called simply "Altcar",
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changing to "Altcar-in-Merseyside" in 1977,
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before changing again to "Little Altcar" on 19 November 1987.
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For elections to
Sefton Council
the village of Little Altcar is part of
Ravenmeols
electoral ward which has seven
councillors
, the recent election in May 2015 has resulted in an influx of Formby Residents Action Group representatives becoming the majority party.
Parliamentary representation
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From 1950 until 2010 Little Altcar was within the boundaries of the
Crosby
constituency, whose
MP
from 1997 until 2010 was
Claire Curtis-Thomas
, a member of the
Labour Party
, prior to her election the Crosby seat was generally considered to be a safe
Conservative Party
stronghold with Tory MP's elected at every election barring the
1981 Crosby by-election
where
Shirley Williams
of the
Social Democratic Party
was elected to represent the constituency. As a result of boundary revisions for the
2010 general election
the Crosby constituency was abolished with its northern parts, including Little Altcar, being merged with the Eastern parts of
Sefton
that were formerly part of the
Knowsley North and Sefton East
constituency, to form the new constituency of
Sefton Central
, which is currently represented by the
Labour Party
MP
Bill Esterson
.
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