- List of rural and urban districts in England in 1973
This is a list of all the
rural district s,urban district s andmunicipal borough s inEngland as they existed prior to the entry into force of theLocal Government Act 1972 onApril 1 ,1974 . There were 1086 such districts and boroughs at this time, the result of a gradual consolidation since their formation in1894 . Apart from these, England also had 79county borough s.
=Bedford=There were no county boroughs.
Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely There were no county boroughs.
Cumberland Exeter ,Plymouth andTorbay were county boroughs.Dorset Ipswich was a county borough.East Sussex Bristol andGloucester were county boroughs.Hampshire There were no county boroughs.
Huntingdon and Peterborough Canterbury was a county borough.Lancashire There were no county boroughs.
=Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven=Great Yarmouth andNorwich were county boroughs.Northamptonshire Nottingham was a county borough.
=Oxford=There were no county boroughs.
Somerset There were no county boroughs.
Warwickshire There were no county boroughs.
Westmorland Warley and
Worcester were county boroughs.Barnsley ,Bradford ,Dewsbury ,Doncaster , Halifax,Huddersfield ,Leeds ,Rotherham ,Sheffield ,Wakefield andYork were county boroughs.ee also
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List of rural and urban districts in Wales
*List of rural and urban districts in Northern Ireland
*List of local government areas in Scotland 1930 - 1975 References
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Local Government Act 1972
*The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition Order) 1972 (SI 2039/1972)
*Charlwood and Horley Act 1974
*Administrative history of Rutland, visionofbritain.org.uk [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10134833&c_id=10001043]
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