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==Governance==
[[File:Alnwick Town Hall as seen from the west.jpg|thumb|upright=0.75|The rear view of Alnwick Town Hall (the main entrance  is in the Market Place)]]

Historically, the town was partly within the [[Bamburgh|Bamburgh Ward]] and Coquetdale Ward and later included in the East Division of Coquetdale Ward in 1832.<ref name=tate>[[George Tate (topographer)|George Tate]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=voYHAAAAQAAJ ''The History of the Borough, Castle and Barony of Alnwick''] (Vol. 1). Alnwick: Henry Hunter Blair, 1866.</ref> [[Alnwick Town Hall]] was the home of the common council of Alnwick.<ref name=tate/> By the time of the 2011 Census, an [[Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom|electoral ward]] covering only part of Alnwick parish existed. The total population of this ward was 4,766.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/alnwick-e05008018#sthash.lEgMqxYJ.dpbs|title=Alnwick ward population 2011 |access-date=25 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626153053/http://www.ukcensusdata.com/alnwick-e05008018#sthash.lEgMqxYJ.dpbs |archive-date=26 June 2015}}</ref>