Official Name: | East Ecclesfield |
Static Image Name: | sheffield-wards-East Ecclesfield.png |
Static Image Caption: | Shown within Sheffield |
Metropolitan Borough: | City of Sheffield |
Metropolitan County: | South Yorkshire |
Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber |
Country: | England |
Constituency Westminster: | Penistone and Stocksbridge |
Coordinates: | 53.443°N -1.47°W |
Label Position: | left |
Councillors: | Craig Gamble-Pugh (Labour) Alan Woodcock (Lib Dem) Robert Reiss (Lib Dem) |
Population: | 18,295 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 3.8 |
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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 3.8sqmi in the eastern part of Ecclesfield Parish. The population of this ward in 2011 was 18,295 people in 7,863. 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 and Stocksbridge constituency. The East Ecclesfield ward is composed of eight polling districts. These include Blackburn, Chapeltown, Ecclesfield, Ecclesfield Common, High Greave, Horbury, Warren and Wheata.
See main article: Ecclesfield. Ecclesfield is a village, now a northern suburb of Sheffield. It lies near the railway line from Sheffield to Barnsley. Until 1953, Ecclesfield had a railway station.
Notable buildings in Ecclesfield include St Mary's Church and Ecclesfield Priory.
See main article: Chapeltown, South Yorkshire. Chapeltown lies to the north of Ecclesfield. It has its own railway station and at junction 35 on the M1 motorway.