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