HC Deb 28 March 1974 vol 871 cc185-9W
Mr. Beith

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.

Mr. John Silkin

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

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

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

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

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