District Councils and Boroughs (Hansard, 28 March 1974) (original) (raw)
HC Deb 28 March 1974 vol 871 cc185-9W 185W
asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will arrange for the printing in the OFFICIAL REPORT before 1st April 1974 of a list of those district councils which have been accorded the status and dignities of a borough, and of those former boroughs in which charter trustees have been appointed.
I am informed that Her Majesty has granted, or has signified her intention to grant, borough status to the following districts in England:
COUNTY
GREATER MANCHESTER
District:
- Bolton
- Bury
- Oldham
- Rochdale
- Manchester
- Salford
- Stockport
- Thameside
- Trafford
- Wigan
MERSEYSIDE
- Knowsley
- Liverpool
- St. Helens
- Wirral
SOUTH YORKSHIRE
- Barnsley
- Doncaster
- Rotherham
- Sheffield
TYNE AND WEAR
- Gateshead
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- North Tyneside
- South Tyneside
- Sunderland 186W
WEST MIDLANDS
- Birmingham
- Coventry
- Dudley
- Sandwell
- Solihull
- Walsall
- Wolverhampton
WEST YORKSHIRE
- Bradford
- Calderdale
- Kirklees
- Leeds
- Wakefield
AVON
- Bath
- Bristol
BEDFORDSHIRE
- Luton
BERKSHIRE
- Reading
- Slough
- Windsor and Maidenhead
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
- Milton Keynes
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
- Cambridge
- Peterborough
CHESHIRE
- Chester
- Congleton
- Crewe and Nantwich
- Ellesmere Port
- Halton
- Macclesfield
- Warrington
CLEVELAND
- Hartlepool
- Langbaurgh
- Middlesbrough
- Stockton-on-Tees
CORNWALL
- Restormel
CUMBRIA
- Barrow-in-Furness
- Carlisle
- Copeland
DERBYSHIRE
- Chesterfield
- Derby
- High Peak
DEVON
- Exeter
- Torbay
- Plymouth
DORSET
- Bournemouth
- Christchurch
- Poole
- Weymouth and Portland 187W
DURHAM
- Darlington
- Durham
EAST SUSSEX
- Brighton
- Eastbourne
- Hastings
- Hove
ESSEX
- Colchester
- Southend-on-Sea
- Thurrock
GLOUCESTERSHIRE
- Cheltenham
- Gloucester
- Tewkesbury
HAMPSHIRE
- Eastleigh
- Fareham
- Gosport
- Havant
- Portsmouth
- Rushmoor
- Southampton
- Winchester
HEREFORD AND WORCESTER
- Hereford
- Worcester
HERTFORDSHIRE
- Broxbourne
- St. Albans
- Stevenage
- Watford
HUMBERSIDE
- Beverley
- Glanford
- Grimsby
- Kingston upon Hull
- North Wolds
- Scunthorpe
ISLE OF WIGHT
- Medina
KENT
- Ashford
- Canterbury
- Gillingham
- Gravesham
- Maidstone
- Medway
LANCASHIRE
- Blackburn
- Blackpool
- Burnley
- Chorley
- Fylde
- Hyndburn
- Lancaster
- Preston
- Ribble Valley
- Rossendale
- South Ribble
- Wyre 188W
LEICESTERSHIRE
- Charnwood
- Hinckley and Bosworth
- Leicester
- Melton
- Oadby and Wigston
LINCOLNSHIRE
- Boston
- Lincoln
NORFOLK
- Great Yarmouth
- Norwich
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
- Northampton
- Wellingborough
- Kettering
NORTHUMBERLAND
- Berwick upon Tweed
- Blyth Valley
- Castle Morpeth
NORTH YORKSHIRE
- Harrogate
- Scarborough
- York
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
- Gedling
- Nothingham
- Rushcliffe
OXFORDSHIRE
- Oxford
SALOP
- Oswestry
- Shrewsbury
STAFFORDSHIRE
- Newcastle under Lyme
- Stafford
- Stoke on Trent
- Tamworth
SUFFOLK
- Ipswich
- St. Edmundsbury
SURREY
- Elmbridge
- Epsom and Ewell
- Guildford
- Reigate and Banstead
- Spelthorne
- Surrey Heath
- Woking
WARWICKSHIRE
- North Warwickshire
- Nuneaton
- Rugby
WEST SUSSEX
- Crawley
- Worthing
WILTSHIRE
- Thamesdown 189W
Charter trustees will be established, as from 1st April in certain towns which are now boroughs, that is to say, towns which do not retain a separate council at parish level and which are not included
Town New District New County Southport … … … Sefton Merseyside Bootle … … … Sefton Merseyside Crosby … … … Sefton Merseyside Weston super Mare … … … Woodspring Avon Dunstable … … … South Bedfordshire Bedfordshire Bedford … … … Bedford Bedfordshire Newbury … … … Newbury Berkshire Wokingham … … … Wokingham Berkshire High Wycombe … … … Wycombe Buckinghamshire Aylesbury … … … Aylesbury Vale Buckinghamshire Penzance … … … Penwith Cornwall Workington … … … Allerdale Cumbria Ilkeston … … … Erewash Derbyshire Bexhill … … … Rother East Sussex Chelmsford … … … Chelmsford Essex Maldon … … … Maldon Essex Andover … … … Test Valley Hampshire Lymington … … … New Forest Hampshire Basingstoke … … … Basingstoke Hampshire Kidderminster … … … Wyre Forest Hereford and Worcester Hemel Hempstead … … … Dacorum Hertfordshire Cleethorpes … … … Cleethorpes Humberside Goole … … … Boothferry Humberside Margate … … … Thanet Kent Dartford … … … Dartford Kent Folkestone … … … Shepway Kent Royal Tunbridge Wells … … … Tunbridge Wells Kent Ramsgate … … … Thanet Kent Dover … … … Dover Kent Queenborough in Sheppey … … … Swale Kent Deal … … … Dover Kent Colne … … … Pendle Lanes Nelson … … … Pendle Lancs Grantham … … … South Kesteven Lincs King's Lynn … … … West Norfolk Norfolk Daventry … … … Daventry Northamptonshire East Retford … … … Bassetlaw Nottinghamshire Mansfield … … … Mansfield Nottinghamshire Newark … … … Newark Nottinghamshire Worksop … … … Bassetlaw Nottinghamshire Banbury … … … Cherwell Oxfordshire Taunton … … … Taunton Deane Somerset Bridgwater … … … Sedgemoor Somerset Yeovil … … … Yeovil Somerset Lichfield … … … Lichfield Staffordshire Burton upon Trent … … … East Staffordshire Staffordshire Lowestoft … … … Waveney Suffolk Royal Leamington Spa … … … Warwick Warwickshire Salisbury … … … Salisbury Wiltshire Chippenham … … … North Wiltshire Wiltshire