Borough of Halton

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Borough of Halton
Borough of Warrington Borough of Halton Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Blackpool Blackburn with Darwen Lancashire Metropolitan Borough of Wirral Liverpool Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley Metropolitan Borough of St Helens Metropolitan Borough of Sefton Metropolitan Borough of Wigan Metropolitan Borough of Bolton Metropolitan Borough of Bury Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Tameside Metropolitan Borough of Stockport Manchester Trafford City of Salford Calderdale Irische See Birmingham Coventry Metropolitan Borough of Solihull Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough of Walsall Sandwell Metropolitan Borough of Dudley Kirklees City of Wakefield City of Leeds City of Bradford Calderdale North Tyneside South Tyneside City of Sunderland Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead Newcastle upon Tyne Metropolitan Borough of Wirral Liverpool Metropolitan Borough of Sefton Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley Metropolitan Borough of St Helens Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley Sheffield Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster Metropolitan Borough of Wigan City of Salford Trafford Manchester Metropolitan Borough of Stockport Tameside Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough of Bury Metropolitan Borough of Bolton Frankreich Irland Isle of Man Schottland Nordirland Wales Greater London Surrey Buckinghamshire Kent Essex Hertfordshire Suffolk Norfolk Lincolnshire Rutland Cambridgeshire East Sussex West Sussex Isle of Wight Hampshire Dorset Devon (England) Cornwall Bristol Somerset Wiltshire Gloucestershire Leicestershire Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Herefordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire West Midlands (Metropolitan County) Shropshire Staffordshire Nottinghamshire Derbyshire Cheshire Merseyside Greater Manchester South Yorkshire East Riding of Yorkshire West Yorkshire Lancashire North Yorkshire Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear County Durham (Unitary Authority) Darlington Borough of Stockton-on-Tees Middlesbrough Redcar and Cleveland Hartlepool Blackburn with Darwen City of York Kingston upon Hull North East Lincolnshire Borough of Halton Borough of Warrington Cheshire West and Chester Stoke-on-Trent Telford and Wrekin Derby (Derbyshire) Nottingham Leicester City of Peterborough Borough of Swindon Southend-on-Sea Borough of Medway Thurrock Bedfordshire Borough of Milton Keynes Luton Central Bedfordshire North Somerset South Gloucestershire Bath and North East Somerset Plymouth Torbay Scilly-Inseln Poole Bournemouth Southampton Portsmouth Brighton and Hove Reading West Berkshire Wokingham Bracknell Forest Slough Windsor and MaidenheadHalton
About this picture
status Unitary Authority , Borough
region North West England
Ceremony county Cheshire
Administrative headquarters Widnes
surface 79.09 km²
Residents 128,432
was standing 2018
ONS code 00ET
Website www.halton.gov.uk

The Borough Halton is an independent administrative unit ( Unitary Authority ) in the north-west of England . Halton is bordered by Merseyside , Warrington and Cheshire .

It was created in 1974 as a district of the county of Cheshire , but was removed from this in 1998 and made a unitary authority. The main places in Halton are Runcorn and Widnes . The name comes from Halton in the borough area .

The River Mersey flows through Halton . The northern part used to belong to the county of Lancashire , the southern to Cheshire. In the borough, which is part of the North West England region, there were 125,746 people according to the 2011 census. The administrative headquarters are in Widnes.

The Borough of Halton maintains city partnerships with Leiria ( Portugal ), Marzahn-Hellersdorf ( Berlin ), Ústí nad Labem ( Czech Republic ) and Tongling ( People's Republic of China ).

Web links

Commons : Borough of Halton  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mid 2018 Estimates of the population for the UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′  N , 2 ° 45 ′  W