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[[Prestwich Hospital]] was built as an [[History of psychiatric institutions|asylum]] in 1851 and by 1900 it had grown into the largest asylum in Europe.<ref name="Love Prestwich" />
==Governance==
[[File:Prestwich fc logo.png|thumb|right|The [[coat of arms]] of the council of the former Municipal Borough of Prestwich.]]
Prestwich was the [[ecclesiastical]] centre of [[Prestwich-cum-Oldham]] an [[civil parish|ancient parish]] in the [[Salford (hundred)|Salford Hundred]] of [[Lancashire]].<ref name=tde>{{Cite journal |last=Lewis |first=Samuel|title=Prestwich|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51224#s1|journal=A Topographical Dictionary of England |publisher=British History Online |pages=175–179|year=1848 |access-date=30 November 2010}}</ref><ref>[http://www.mancuniensis.info/Maps/salfh_xs.pdf Map of the ten parishes of the Hundred of Salford] retrieved 2 November 2007</ref> It was in Manchester [[Poor Law Union]] (PLU) from 1841 to 1850 and the Prestwich PLU from 1850 to 1915 when it rejoined Manchester PLU until its abolition in 1930. In 1867 the Prestwich Local Board of Health was established which, as a result of the [[Local Government Act 1894]], became Prestwich [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|Urban District]] to which parts of Great and Little Heaton townships were added. In 1903 Heaton Park was added to the City of Manchester and in 1933 part of the urban district west of the Irwell was added to Swinton and Pendlebury Urban District. Prestwich became a [[municipal borough]] in 1939. Under the [[Local Government Act 1972]] it became an [[unparished area]] in the [[Metropolitan Borough of Bury]] in Greater Manchester,<ref name="GM Gazetteer"/> taking effect on 1 April 1974. The old Prestwich Town Hall has since been converted into a block of flats.
Prestwich, together with Whitefield and Radcliffe, is part of the marginal [[Bury South (UK Parliament constituency)|Bury South]] Parliamentary [[constituency]], which has been represented by MP [[Christian Wakeford]] since 2019, who gained it from Labour by 402 votes, making it one of the most marginal in the country. However he then defected to Labour in January 2022.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60054968 | title=Tory MP Christian Wakeford defects to Labour | work=BBC News | date=19 January 2022 }}</ref> It was previously represented by [[Ivan Lewis]] who was first elected for [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] in 1997, however due to allegations of indecent behaviour towards women was suspended from the party in 2018 and since resigned from the party to serve as an independent, and stood as an Independent in the 2019 election. Prior to this it was represented by Conservative [[David Sumberg]] since the constituency's creation in 1983. Prestwich was previously paired with the neighbouring town of [[Middleton, Greater Manchester|Middleton]] in the [[Middleton and Prestwich]] constituency first created in 1918.
On [[Bury Council]] Prestwich is served by three wards, St Mary's, covering the western half of the town, Holyrood covering the north-east and Sedgeley to the south. Over the years they have been represented by all three major political parties, currently with Labour marginally holding St Mary's over the Lib Dems, Sedgeley being represented by a mixture of Conservative and Labour councillors, while Holyrood is a Liberal Democrat stronghold.
==Geography==
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