Wirral Urban District

Wirral Urban District

infobox historic subdivision
Name= Wirral
HQ=
Status= urban district
Start= 1933
End= 1974
Replace= Metropolitan Borough of Wirral

Wirral was an urban district in Cheshire, England from 1933 to 1974. It was created from part of the disbanded Wirral Rural District, and covered an area in the south-west of the Wirral Peninsula. The district covered the areas of Barnston, Gayton, Heswall cum Oldfield, Irby, Pensby and Thurstaston.

On 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, it was abolished and its area formed part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral of the metropolitan county of Merseyside.

References

* [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10042951 Relationships/unit history of Wirral]
*English Non-metropolitan Districts Order 1972


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