The Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme is a local government district with borough status in Staffordshire, England.

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Newcastle-under-Lyme
Non-metropolitan district and borough
Newcastle-under-Lyme market day and high street
Newcastle-under-Lyme shown within Staffordshire
Region	West Midlands
Non-metropolitan county	Staffordshire
Status	Non-metropolitan district
Admin HQ	Newcastle-under-Lyme
Incorporated	1 April 1974
Government
• Type	Non-metropolitan district council
• Body	Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council
• MPs	Aaron Bell (Conservative) Karen Bradley (Conservative) Bill Cash (Conservative)
Area
• Total	211.0 km2 (81.5 sq mi)
• Rank	142nd (of 296)
Population  (2021)
• Total	123,025
• Rank	193rd (of 296)
• Density	580/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Ethnicity (2021) [1]
• Ethnic groups	List 92.9% White 3.8% Asian 1.6% Mixed 1% Black 0.7% other
Religion (2021) [1]
• Religion	List 51.8% Christianity 38.9% no religion 1.8% Islam 0.6% Hinduism 0.1% Judaism 0.2% Sikhism 0.4% Buddhism 0.4% other 5.8% not stated
Time zone	UTC0 (GMT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (BST)
ONS code	41UE (ONS) E07000195 (GSS)
OS grid reference	SJ8463746024

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It is named after the town of Newcastle-under-Lyme, where the council is based. The borough also includes the town of Kidsgrove and several villages and surrounding rural areas lying generally to the west of Newcastle itself. Most of the borough's built-up areas form part of The Potteries Urban Area.

The neighbouring districts are Staffordshire Moorlands, Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Shropshire and Cheshire East.

The town of Newcastle-under-Lyme was an ancient borough, established in the twelfth century. It is known to have been granted a charter (since lost) around 1173 by Henry II.^[2][3] The earliest surviving charter dates from 1235. The borough was formally incorporated in 1590 under a new charter from Elizabeth I.^[4]

The borough was reformed in 1836 to become a municipal borough under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, which reformed many boroughs across the country. The municipal borough was enlarged several times, notably in 1932 when it took in what had been the Wolstanton United Urban District, covering the parishes of Chesterton, Silverdale and Wolstanton, and at the same time also absorbed the parish of Clayton from Newcastle-under-Lyme Rural District.^[5]

The modern district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 covering three former districts, which were all abolished at the same time:^[6]

• Kidsgrove Urban District
• Newcastle-under-Lyme Municipal Borough
• Newcastle-under-Lyme Rural District

The new district was named Newcastle-under-Lyme after its largest town.^{[lower-alpha 1][7]} The district was granted borough status from its creation, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor, continuing Newcastle's series of mayors dating back to 1318.^[8][9]

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by Staffordshire County Council. Parts of the borough are also covered by civil parishes, which form a third tier of local government.^[12][13]

In the 2001 census, the borough was recorded as having a population of 122,030 with 51.5% being female. 78.% identified themselves as Christian, 13.1% having no religion, 0.5% Muslim, 0.2% Hindu or other and 0.1% stating Jewish or Sikh.^[27] 61.2% were classed as economically active, with 22.6% working in manufacturing, 18.5% in wholesale or retail, 11.6% in health/social work and 11.6% in financial and other business related activities.^[28]

Newcastle-under-Lyme was chosen for the campus of University College of North Staffordshire, established in 1949 at Keele Hall in the village of Keele, two miles from the town centre, and which was granted full university status as Keele University in 1962. Keele University Medical School is based in the grounds of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire at Hartshill in Stoke-on-Trent, about a mile from the centre of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

In terms of television, the area is served by BBC West Midlands and ITV Central broadcasting from Birmingham. Television signals are received the Sutton Coldfield TV transmitter ^[29] and the Fenton relay transmitter. ^[30] However, Kidsgrove is served by BBC North West and ITV Granada, broadcast from Salford. Television signals in the town are received from the Winter Hill TV transmitter.^[31]

Radio stations for the area are BBC Radio Stoke, Signal 1, Greatest Hits Radio Staffordshire & Cheshire, 6 Towns Radio and HitMix Radio, a community based station that broadcast from the town.

The Sentinel is the local newspaper that covers the area.^[32]

An area roughly corresponding to the pre-1974 municipal borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme (less the parish of Silverdale, created in 2002) is an unparished area; over half the borough's population live in this area.^[33] The rest of the borough is divided into eleven civil parishes.^[13] The parish council for Kidsgrove has declared that parish to be a town, allowing it to take the style "town council".^[34]

The parishes are:

The following people, military units and organisations and groups have received the Freedom of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (July 2020)