Editing Uttoxeter (section)

==Governance==
There are three tiers of local government covering Uttoxeter, at [[civil parish]] (town), [[non-metropolitan district|district]] and [[non-metropolitan county|county]] level: Uttoxeter Town Council, [[East Staffordshire Borough Council]], and [[Staffordshire County Council]]. The town council is based at [[Uttoxeter Town Hall]] on the High Street.<ref>{{cite web |title=Uttoxeter Town Council |url=https://uttoxetertowncouncil.org.uk/ |access-date=27 December 2023}}</ref>

[[File:Town Hall, Uttoxeter.jpg|thumb|left|[[Uttoxeter Town Hall]]]]
Uttoxeter was an [[ancient parish]]. When elected parish and district councils were created in 1894 it was given a parish council and included in the [[Uttoxeter Rural District]]. Shortly afterwards it was decided to create an [[Urban district (England and Wales)|urban district]] covering the town, making it independent from the rural district council. It was concluded that the whole parish was not suitable to be an urban district, so the rural parts of the parish were made a separate parish called [[Uttoxeter Rural]] which stayed in the rural district, whilst the rest became the Uttoxeter Urban District in 1896.<ref>{{cite book |title=Annual Report of the Local Government Board |date=1896 |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |location=London |page=379 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OhIMAQAAMAAJ |access-date=27 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Uttoxeter Ancient Parish / Civil Parish |url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10295737 |website=A Vision of Britain through Time |publisher=GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth |access-date=27 December 2023}}</ref> In 1899 the urban district council purchased the Town Hall, which had been built in 1854.<ref>{{cite news |title=Uttoxeter Urban District Council |url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search-newspapers |access-date=27 December 2023 |work=Uttoxeter Advertiser |date=5 July 1899 |page=5}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE|desc=Town Hall |num= 1253438| access-date=24 September 2021}}</ref>

Uttoxeter Urban District was abolished in 1974, becoming part of the new district of East Staffordshire. A [[successor parish]] was created covering the former urban district, with its parish council taking the name Uttoxeter Town Council.<ref>{{cite legislation UK|type=si|si=The Local Government (Successor Parishes) Order 1973|year=1973|number=1110|access-date=27 December 2023}}</ref>