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For the similar county-level jurisdictions in the United States, see <a href="/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_areas_in_Alaska" title="List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska">List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boroughs_of_New_York_City" title="Boroughs of New York City">Boroughs of New York City</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) 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href="/wiki/File:England_Administrative_Map_1971.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/England_Administrative_Map_1971.png/220px-England_Administrative_Map_1971.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="270" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/England_Administrative_Map_1971.png/330px-England_Administrative_Map_1971.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/England_Administrative_Map_1971.png/440px-England_Administrative_Map_1971.png 2x" data-file-width="5300" data-file-height="6512" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Map of county boroughs in 1971 (named in boldface capitals), alongside administrative counties, municipal boroughs, urban districts, rural districts</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Category</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Borough</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/England_and_Wales" title="England and Wales">England and Wales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Found in</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Counties</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1888" title="Local Government Act 1888">Local Government Act 1888</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(Ireland)_Act_1898" title="Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898">Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(Wales)_Act_1994" title="Local Government (Wales) Act 1994">Local Government (Wales) Act 1994</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Created</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> 1889</li><li><a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> 1889/1994</li><li><a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a> 1899</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Abolished by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(Boundaries)_Act_(Northern_Ireland)_1971" title="Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971">Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1972" title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_2001" title="Local Government Act 2001">Local Government Act 2001</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Abolished</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> 1973 (local government)</li><li><a href="/wiki/England_and_Wales" title="England and Wales">England and Wales</a> 1974</li><li><a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a> 2002</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Number</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">11 (as of 2008)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Possible types</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Lieutenancy area (2)</li><li>Principal area (9)</li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>County borough</b> is a term introduced in 1889 in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland" title="United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland">United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland</a>, to refer to a <a href="/wiki/Borough" title="Borough">borough</a> or a <a href="/wiki/City" title="City">city</a> independent of <a href="/wiki/County_council" title="County council">county council</a> control, similar to the <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authorities_of_England" title="Unitary authorities of England">unitary authorities</a> created since the 1990s. An equivalent term used in Scotland was a <b>county of city</b>. They were abolished by the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1972" title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972</a> in <a href="/wiki/England_and_Wales" title="England and Wales">England and Wales</a>, but continue in use for <a href="/wiki/Lord_lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord lieutenant">lieutenancy</a> and <a href="/wiki/High_sheriff" title="High sheriff">shrievalty</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a> they remain in existence but have been renamed <i>cities</i> under the provisions of the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_2001" title="Local Government Act 2001">Local Government Act 2001</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(Wales)_Act_1994" title="Local Government (Wales) Act 1994">Local Government (Wales) Act 1994</a> re-introduced the term for certain "<a href="/wiki/Principal_area" title="Principal area">principal areas</a>" in Wales. Scotland did not have county boroughs but instead had <a href="/wiki/County_of_city" title="County of city">counties of cities</a>. These were abolished on 16 May 1975. All four Scottish cities of the time—<a href="/wiki/Aberdeen" title="Aberdeen">Aberdeen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dundee" title="Dundee">Dundee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a>—were included in this category. There was an additional category of <a href="/wiki/Large_burgh" title="Large burgh">large burgh</a> in the Scottish system (similar to a <a href="/wiki/Municipal_borough" title="Municipal borough">municipal borough</a> in England and Wales), which were responsible for all services apart from police, education and fire. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="England_and_Wales">England and Wales</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: England and Wales"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History">History</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Initial_creation">Initial creation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Initial creation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When <a href="/wiki/County_council" title="County council">county councils</a> were first created in 1889, it was decided that to let them have authority over large towns or cities would be impractical, and so any large incorporated place would have the right to be a county borough, and thus independent from the <a href="/wiki/Administrative_counties_of_England" title="Administrative counties of England">administrative county</a> it would otherwise come under. Some cities and towns were already independent <a href="/wiki/County_corporate" title="County corporate">counties corporate</a>, and most were to become county boroughs. Originally ten county boroughs were proposed; <a href="/wiki/Bristol" title="Bristol">Bristol</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kingston_upon_Hull" title="Kingston upon Hull">Hull</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne" title="Newcastle upon Tyne">Newcastle upon Tyne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a>, which were already counties, and <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bradford" title="Bradford">Bradford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liverpool" title="Liverpool">Liverpool</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sheffield" title="Sheffield">Sheffield</a>, which were not. The <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1888" title="Local Government Act 1888">Local Government Act 1888</a> as eventually passed required a population of over 50,000 except in the case of existing counties corporate.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This resulted in 61 county boroughs in England and two in Wales (<a href="/wiki/Cardiff" title="Cardiff">Cardiff</a> and <a href="/wiki/Swansea" title="Swansea">Swansea</a>). Several exceptions were allowed, mainly for historic towns, including <a href="/wiki/Bath,_Somerset" title="Bath, Somerset">Bath</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dudley" title="Dudley">Dudley</a>, which would still remain below the 50,000 limit by the time of the 1901 census. Some of the smaller counties corporate—<a href="/wiki/Berwick_upon_Tweed" class="mw-redirect" title="Berwick upon Tweed">Berwick upon Tweed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lichfield" title="Lichfield">Lichfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poole" title="Poole">Poole</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carmarthen" title="Carmarthen">Carmarthen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Haverfordwest" title="Haverfordwest">Haverfordwest</a>—did not become county boroughs, although <a href="/wiki/Canterbury" title="Canterbury">Canterbury</a>, with a population under 25,000, did. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Growth">Growth</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Growth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The county councils and county borough councils came into operation on 1 April 1889. Just seven months later, on 9 November 1889, the city of <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a> was the first borough which had not been made a county borough by the 1888 Act to be elevated to county borough status.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Various other new county boroughs were constituted in the following decades, generally as more boroughs reached the 50,000 minimum and then promoted Acts to constitute them county boroughs. The granting of county borough status was the subject of much disagreement between the large <a href="/wiki/Municipal_borough" title="Municipal borough">municipal boroughs</a> and the county councils. The population limit provided county councils with a disincentive to allow mergers or boundary amendments to districts that would create authorities with large populations, as this would allow them to seek county borough status and remove the tax base from the administrative county. </p><p>County boroughs to be constituted in this era were a mixed bag, including some towns that would continue to expand such as <a href="/wiki/Bournemouth" title="Bournemouth">Bournemouth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southend-on-Sea" title="Southend-on-Sea">Southend-on-Sea</a>. Other towns such as <a href="/wiki/Burton_upon_Trent" title="Burton upon Trent">Burton upon Trent</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dewsbury" title="Dewsbury">Dewsbury</a> were not to increase in population much past 50,000. 1913 saw the attempts of <a href="/wiki/Luton" title="Luton">Luton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a> to gain county borough status defeated in the <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">House of Commons</a>, despite the approval of the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Board" title="Local Government Board">Local Government Board</a> – the removal of Cambridge from Cambridgeshire would have reduced the income of Cambridgeshire County Council by over half. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Slowdown">Slowdown</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Slowdown"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RutlandRoadSignSmethwick.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/RutlandRoadSignSmethwick.jpg/220px-RutlandRoadSignSmethwick.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="59" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/RutlandRoadSignSmethwick.jpg/330px-RutlandRoadSignSmethwick.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/RutlandRoadSignSmethwick.jpg/440px-RutlandRoadSignSmethwick.jpg 2x" data-file-width="951" data-file-height="256" /></a><figcaption>Street nameplate on Rutland Road, <a href="/wiki/Smethwick" title="Smethwick">Smethwick</a> in April 2007, showing painted out "County Borough" lettering.</figcaption></figure> <p>Upon recommendation of a commission chaired by the <a href="/wiki/Richard_Onslow,_5th_Earl_of_Onslow" title="Richard Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow">Earl of Onslow</a>, the population threshold was raised to 75,000 in 1926, by the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(County_Boroughs_and_Adjustments)_Act_1926" title="Local Government (County Boroughs and Adjustments) Act 1926">Local Government (County Boroughs and Adjustments) Act 1926</a>, which also made it much harder to expand boundaries. The threshold was raised to 100,000 by the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1958" title="Local Government Act 1958">Local Government Act 1958</a>. </p><p>The viability of the county borough of <a href="/wiki/Merthyr_Tydfil_County_Borough" title="Merthyr Tydfil County Borough">Merthyr Tydfil</a> came into question in the 1930s. Due to <a href="/wiki/Merthyr_Tydfil#The_decline_of_coal_and_iron" title="Merthyr Tydfil">a decline in the heavy industries</a> of the town, by 1932 more than half the male population was unemployed, resulting in very high municipal rates in order to make public assistance payments. At the same time the population of the borough was lower than when it had been created in 1908.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Royal_commission" title="Royal commission">royal commission</a> was appointed in May 1935 to <i>"investigate whether the existing status of Merthyr Tydfil as a county borough should be continued, and if not, what other arrangements should be made"</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The commission reported the following November, and recommended that Merthyr should revert to the status of a non-county borough, and that public assistance should be taken over by central government. In the event county borough status was retained by the town, with the chairman of the Welsh Board of Health appointed as administrative adviser in 1936.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> the creation of new county boroughs in <a href="/wiki/England_and_Wales" title="England and Wales">England and Wales</a> was effectively suspended, pending a local government review. A government <a href="/wiki/White_paper" title="White paper">white paper</a> published in 1945 stated that <i>"it is expected that there will be a number of Bills for extending or creating county boroughs"</i> and proposed the creation of a boundary commission to bring coordination to local government reform. The policy in the paper also ruled out the creation of new county boroughs in <a href="/wiki/Middlesex" title="Middlesex">Middlesex</a> <i>"owing to its special problems"</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Boundary_Commission_(1945%E2%80%931949)" title="Local Government Boundary Commission (1945–1949)">Local Government Boundary Commission</a> was appointed on 26 October 1945, under the chairmanship of <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Eve" class="mw-redirect" title="Malcolm Eve">Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> delivering its report in 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The commission recommended that towns with a population of 200,000 or more should become one-tier "new counties", with "new county boroughs" having a population of 60,000 – 200,000 being "most-purpose authorities", with the county council of the administrative county providing certain limited services. The report envisaged the creation of 47 two-tiered "new counties", 21 one-tiered "new counties" and 63 "new county boroughs". The recommendations of the commission extended to a review of the division of functions between different tiers of local government, and thus fell outside its terms of reference, and its report was not acted upon. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Partial_reform">Partial reform</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Partial reform"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The next attempt at reform was by the Local Government Act 1958, which established the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Commission_for_England_(1958%E2%80%931967)" title="Local Government Commission for England (1958–1967)">Local Government Commission for England</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Commission_for_Wales" title="Local Government Commission for Wales">Local Government Commission for Wales</a> to carry out reviews of existing local government structures and recommend reforms. Although the Commissions did not complete their work before being dissolved, a handful of new county boroughs were constituted between 1964 and 1968. <a href="/wiki/Luton" title="Luton">Luton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Torbay" title="Torbay">Torbay</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Solihull" title="Solihull">Solihull</a> gained county borough status. Additionally, the <a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Teesside" title="County Borough of Teesside">Teesside</a> was formed from a merger of the existing county borough of <a href="/wiki/Middlesbrough" title="Middlesbrough">Middlesbrough</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Municipal_boroughs" class="mw-redirect" title="Municipal boroughs">municipal boroughs</a> of <a href="/wiki/Stockton-on-Tees" title="Stockton-on-Tees">Stockton-on-Tees</a>, <a href="/wiki/Redcar" title="Redcar">Redcar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thornaby" class="mw-redirect" title="Thornaby">Thornaby</a>; <a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Warley" title="County Borough of Warley">Warley</a> was formed from the county borough of <a href="/wiki/Smethwick" title="Smethwick">Smethwick</a> and the non-county boroughs of <a href="/wiki/Oldbury,_West_Midlands" title="Oldbury, West Midlands">Oldbury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rowley_Regis" title="Rowley Regis">Rowley Regis</a>; and <a href="/wiki/West_Hartlepool" title="West Hartlepool">West Hartlepool</a> was merged with <a href="/wiki/Hartlepool" title="Hartlepool">Hartlepool</a>. Following these changes, there was a total of 79 county boroughs in England. The Commission also recommended the downgrading of <a href="/wiki/Barnsley" title="Barnsley">Barnsley</a> to be a non-county borough, but this was not carried out. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Abolition">Abolition</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Abolition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The county boroughs of <a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_East_Ham" title="County Borough of East Ham">East Ham</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_West_Ham" title="County Borough of West Ham">West Ham</a> and <a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Croydon" title="County Borough of Croydon">Croydon</a> were abolished in 1965 with the creation of <a href="/wiki/Greater_London" title="Greater London">Greater London</a> and went on to form parts of <a href="/wiki/London_borough" class="mw-redirect" title="London borough">London boroughs</a>. The remaining county boroughs were abolished in 1974 under the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_1972" title="Local Government Act 1972">Local Government Act 1972</a>, and replaced with <a href="/wiki/Non-metropolitan_district" title="Non-metropolitan district">non-metropolitan districts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_borough" title="Metropolitan borough">metropolitan districts</a>, all beneath <a href="/wiki/County_council" title="County council">county councils</a> in a two-tier structure. In Greater London and the metropolitan counties the lower tier districts retained a wider range of powers than in the non-metropolitan counties. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Revival">Revival</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Revival"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This situation did not persist long. In 1986 the metropolitan county councils and the <a href="/wiki/Greater_London_Council" title="Greater London Council">Greater London Council</a> were abolished, returning the metropolitan boroughs to a status equivalent to the former county boroughs, but sharing some powers (police and transport for example). In the 1990s, many of the nonmetropolitan former county boroughs were reformed again as <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authority" title="Unitary authority">unitary authorities</a> – essentially the same as a county borough. As a result, by 2015, most former county boroughs were either metropolitan boroughs or unitary authorities with a status similar to the old county boroughs. In England, most of those former county boroughs that did not gain unitary authority status—<a href="/wiki/Barrow-in-Furness_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Barrow-in-Furness (borough)">Barrow-in-Furness</a>, <a href="/wiki/Burnley_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Burnley (borough)">Burnley</a>, <a href="/wiki/City_of_Canterbury" title="City of Canterbury">Canterbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/City_of_Carlisle" title="City of Carlisle">Carlisle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chester_(district)" title="Chester (district)">Chester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastbourne" title="Eastbourne">Eastbourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gloucester" title="Gloucester">Gloucester</a>, <a href="/wiki/Great_Yarmouth_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Yarmouth (borough)">Great Yarmouth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hastings" title="Hastings">Hastings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ipswich" title="Ipswich">Ipswich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lincoln,_Lincolnshire" class="mw-redirect" title="Lincoln, Lincolnshire">Lincoln</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northampton" title="Northampton">Northampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Norwich" title="Norwich">Norwich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, <a href="/wiki/City_of_Preston,_Lancashire" title="City of Preston, Lancashire">Preston</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Worcester,_England" title="Worcester, England">Worcester</a>—have given their names to non-unitary <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">local government districts</a> (in some cases coterminous with the old county borough, in other cases much larger). <a href="/wiki/Burton_upon_Trent" title="Burton upon Trent">Burton upon Trent</a> became an unparished area in the <a href="/wiki/East_Staffordshire" title="East Staffordshire">East Staffordshire</a> borough, and has now been divided into several parishes. </p><p>In Wales, several <a href="/wiki/Principal_area" title="Principal area">principal areas</a> are county boroughs:<sup id="cite_ref-lgaw94_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lgaw94-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Newport,_Wales" title="Newport, Wales">Newport</a> (acquired <a href="/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="City status in the United Kingdom">city status</a> in 2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merthyr_Tydfil_County_Borough" title="Merthyr Tydfil County Borough">Merthyr Tydfil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caerphilly_County_Borough" title="Caerphilly County Borough">Caerphilly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blaenau_Gwent" title="Blaenau Gwent">Blaenau Gwent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torfaen" title="Torfaen">Torfaen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vale_of_Glamorgan" title="Vale of Glamorgan">Vale of Glamorgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bridgend_County_Borough" title="Bridgend County Borough">Bridgend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhondda_Cynon_Taf" title="Rhondda Cynon Taf">Rhondda Cynon Taf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neath_Port_Talbot" title="Neath Port Talbot">Neath Port Talbot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wrexham_County_Borough" title="Wrexham County Borough">Wrexham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conwy_County_Borough" title="Conwy County Borough">Conwy</a></li></ul> <p>For all practical purposes, county boroughs are exactly the same as the other <a href="/wiki/Principal_areas_of_Wales" title="Principal areas of Wales">principal areas of Wales</a> called "<i><a href="/wiki/Counties" class="mw-redirect" title="Counties">counties</a></i>" (including "<i>cities and counties</i>") as all these areas are run by <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authorities" class="mw-redirect" title="Unitary authorities">unitary authorities</a> (i.e.: have the functions of both <a href="/wiki/Borough" title="Borough">boroughs</a> and counties). Although unitary authorities are functionally equivalent to county boroughs, only in Wales is the title given official recognition by Act of Parliament.<sup id="cite_ref-lgaw94_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lgaw94-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="English_county_boroughs_in_1973">English county boroughs in 1973</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: English county boroughs in 1973"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:England_County_Boroughs_1974.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Map of County Boroughs Prior to Abolition in 1974"><img alt="Map of County Boroughs Prior to Abolition in 1974" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/England_County_Boroughs_1974.png/600px-England_County_Boroughs_1974.png" decoding="async" width="600" height="744" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/England_County_Boroughs_1974.png/900px-England_County_Boroughs_1974.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/England_County_Boroughs_1974.png/1200px-England_County_Boroughs_1974.png 2x" data-file-width="2625" data-file-height="3256" /></a></span> </p><p>The map depicts the county boroughs in England immediately prior to their abolition in 1974. County boroughs in Wales and Northern Ireland are not shown. </p><p>This table shows those county boroughs that existed in England and Wales between the Local Government Acts of 1888 (that created them) and 1972 (that abolished them from 1974). <br /> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>County borough </th> <th>From </th> <th>Associated county </th> <th>1971 census pop </th> <th colspan="2">Successors in 1974 </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Barnsley" title="County Borough of Barnsley">Barnsley</a> </td> <td>1913 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="West Riding of Yorkshire">Yorkshire, West Riding</a> </td> <td>75,439 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Barnsley" title="Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley">Barnsley MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Yorkshire" title="South Yorkshire">South Yorkshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Barrow-in-Furness" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Barrow-in-Furness">Barrow-in-Furness</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a> </td> <td>64,039 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Barrow-in-Furness_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Barrow-in-Furness (borough)">Barrow-in-Furness</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cumbria" title="Cumbria">Cumbria</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Bath" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Bath">Bath</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Somerset" title="Somerset">Somerset</a> </td> <td>84,686 </td> <td>Bath </td> <td><a href="/wiki/County_of_Avon" class="mw-redirect" title="County of Avon">Avon</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Birkenhead" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Birkenhead">Birkenhead</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a> </td> <td>137,889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wirral_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wirral (borough)">Wirral MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Merseyside" title="Merseyside">Merseyside</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Birmingham" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Birmingham">Birmingham</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Warwickshire" title="Warwickshire">Warwickshire</a> </td> <td>1,014,773 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Birmingham" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Birmingham">Birmingham</a> MB (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(county)" title="West Midlands (county)">West Midlands</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Blackburn" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Blackburn">Blackburn</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>101,802 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Blackburn_with_Darwen" title="Blackburn with Darwen">Blackburn</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Blackpool" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Blackpool">Blackpool</a> </td> <td>1904 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>151,871 </td> <td>Blackpool </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Bolton" title="County Borough of Bolton">Bolton</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>154,223 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bolton_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bolton (borough)">Bolton MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester" title="Greater Manchester">Greater Manchester</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Bootle" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Bootle">Bootle</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>74,304 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Sefton" title="Metropolitan Borough of Sefton">Sefton MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Merseyside" title="Merseyside">Merseyside</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Bournemouth" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Bournemouth">Bournemouth</a> </td> <td>1900 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a> </td> <td>153,861 </td> <td>Bournemouth </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dorset" title="Dorset">Dorset</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Bradford" title="County Borough of Bradford">Bradford</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Yorkshire, West Riding </td> <td>294,164 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Bradford" title="City of Bradford">Bradford MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Brighton" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Brighton">Brighton</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Sussex </td> <td>161,350 </td> <td>Brighton </td> <td><a href="/wiki/East_Sussex" title="East Sussex">East Sussex</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Bristol" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Bristol">Bristol</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire" title="Gloucestershire">Gloucestershire</a><sup id="cite_ref-corp_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>426,653 </td> <td>Bristol </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Avon_(county)" title="Avon (county)">Avon</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Burnley" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Burnley">Burnley</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>76,489 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Burnley_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Burnley (borough)">Burnley</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Burton_upon_Trent" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Burton upon Trent">Burton upon Trent</a> </td> <td>1901 </td> <td>Staffordshire </td> <td>50,211 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/East_Staffordshire" title="East Staffordshire">East Staffordshire</a> (part)<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Bury" title="County Borough of Bury">Bury</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>67,870 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bury_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bury (borough)">Bury MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester" title="Greater Manchester">Greater Manchester</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Canterbury" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Canterbury">Canterbury</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Kent<sup id="cite_ref-corp_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>33,155 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Canterbury" title="City of Canterbury">Canterbury</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Cardiff" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Cardiff">Cardiff</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Glamorgan" title="Glamorgan">Glamorgan</a> </td> <td>279,046 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cardiff_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardiff (district)">Cardiff</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Glamorgan" title="South Glamorgan">South Glamorgan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Carlisle" title="County Borough of Carlisle">Carlisle</a> </td> <td>1915 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cumberland" title="Cumberland">Cumberland</a> </td> <td>71,580 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Carlisle" title="City of Carlisle">Carlisle</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cumbria" title="Cumbria">Cumbria</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Chester" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Chester">Chester</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Cheshire<sup id="cite_ref-corp_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>62,923 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chester_(district)" title="Chester (district)">Chester</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Coventry" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Coventry">Coventry</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Warwickshire </td> <td>335,260 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Coventry" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Coventry">Coventry</a> MB (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(county)" title="West Midlands (county)">West Midlands</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Darlington" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Darlington">Darlington</a> </td> <td>1915 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Durham" title="County Durham">Durham</a> </td> <td>85,916 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Darlington_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Darlington (borough)">Darlington</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Durham" title="County Durham">Durham</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Derby" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Derby">Derby</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Derbyshire </td> <td>219,578 </td> <td>Derby </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Derbyshire" title="Derbyshire">Derbyshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Dewsbury" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Dewsbury">Dewsbury</a> </td> <td>1913 </td> <td>Yorkshire, West Riding </td> <td>51,354 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kirklees_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kirklees (borough)">Kirklees MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Doncaster" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Doncaster">Doncaster</a> </td> <td>1927 </td> <td>Yorkshire, West Riding </td> <td>82,671 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Doncaster_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doncaster (borough)">Doncaster MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Yorkshire" title="South Yorkshire">South Yorkshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Dudley" title="County Borough of Dudley">Dudley</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Worcestershire to 1966<br />then Staffordshire </td> <td>185,592 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dudley_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dudley (borough)">Dudley MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(county)" title="West Midlands (county)">West Midlands</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Eastbourne" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Eastbourne">Eastbourne</a> </td> <td>1911 </td> <td>Sussex </td> <td>70,949 </td> <td>Eastbourne </td> <td><a href="/wiki/East_Sussex" title="East Sussex">East Sussex</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Exeter" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Exeter">Exeter</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Devon<sup id="cite_ref-corp_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>95,711 </td> <td>Exeter </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Devon" title="Devon">Devon</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Gateshead" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Gateshead">Gateshead</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Durham </td> <td>94,464 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gateshead_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gateshead (borough)">Gateshead MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tyne_and_Wear" title="Tyne and Wear">Tyne and Wear</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Gloucester" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Gloucester">Gloucester</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire" title="Gloucestershire">Gloucestershire</a><sup id="cite_ref-corp_12-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>90,223 </td> <td>Gloucester </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire" title="Gloucestershire">Gloucestershire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Grimsby" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Grimsby">Grimsby</a> </td> <td>1891 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> </td> <td>95,502 </td> <td>Grimsby </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Humberside" title="Humberside">Humberside</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Halifax" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Halifax">Halifax</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Yorkshire, West Riding </td> <td>91,263 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Calderdale" title="Calderdale">Calderdale MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Hartlepool" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Hartlepool">Hartlepool</a> </td> <td>1967 </td> <td>Durham </td> <td>97,082 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hartlepool_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hartlepool (borough)">Hartlepool</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_(county)" title="Cleveland (county)">Cleveland</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Hastings" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Hastings">Hastings</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Sussex </td> <td>72,414 </td> <td>Hastings </td> <td><a href="/wiki/East_Sussex" title="East Sussex">East Sussex</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Huddersfield" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Huddersfield">Huddersfield</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Yorkshire, West Riding </td> <td>131,188 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kirklees" title="Kirklees">Kirklees MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Ipswich" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Ipswich">Ipswich</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Suffolk </td> <td>123,297 </td> <td>Ipswich </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Suffolk" title="Suffolk">Suffolk</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Kingston_upon_Hull" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Kingston upon Hull">Kingston upon Hull</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/East_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="East Riding of Yorkshire">Yorkshire, East Riding</a><sup id="cite_ref-corp_12-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>285,965 </td> <td>Kingston upon Hull </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Humberside" title="Humberside">Humberside</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Leeds" title="County Borough of Leeds">Leeds</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Yorkshire, West Riding </td> <td>496,036 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Leeds" title="City of Leeds">Leeds MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Leicester" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Leicester">Leicester</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leicestershire" title="Leicestershire">Leicestershire</a> </td> <td>284,208 </td> <td>Leicester </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Leicestershire" title="Leicestershire">Leicestershire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Lincoln" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Lincoln">Lincoln</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lincolnshire<sup id="cite_ref-corp_12-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>77,077 (1961) </td> <td>Lincoln </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lincolnshire" title="Lincolnshire">Lincolnshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Liverpool" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Liverpool">Liverpool</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>610,114 </td> <td>Liverpool MB </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Merseyside" title="Merseyside">Merseyside</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Luton" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Luton">Luton</a> </td> <td>1964 </td> <td>Bedfordshire </td> <td>161,400 </td> <td>Luton </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire" title="Bedfordshire">Bedfordshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Manchester">Manchester</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>543,741 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Manchester" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Manchester">Manchester</a> MB (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester" title="Greater Manchester">Greater Manchester</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Merthyr_Tydfil" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil">Merthyr Tydfil</a> </td> <td>1908 </td> <td>Glamorgan </td> <td>55,283 </td> <td>Merthyr Tydfil </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mid_Glamorgan" title="Mid Glamorgan">Mid Glamorgan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Newcastle_upon_Tyne" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne">Newcastle upon Tyne</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Northumberland" title="Northumberland">Northumberland</a><sup id="cite_ref-corp_12-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>222,172 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Newcastle_upon_Tyne" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Newcastle upon Tyne">Newcastle upon Tyne</a> MB (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tyne_and_Wear" title="Tyne and Wear">Tyne and Wear</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Newport" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Newport">Newport</a> </td> <td>1891 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Monmouthshire_(historic)" title="Monmouthshire (historic)">Monmouthshire</a> </td> <td>112,298 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Newport_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Newport (district)">Newport</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gwent_(county)" title="Gwent (county)">Gwent</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Northampton" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Northampton">Northampton</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a> </td> <td>126,597 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Northampton" class="mw-redirect" title="Borough of Northampton">Northampton</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Northamptonshire" title="Northamptonshire">Northamptonshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Nottingham" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Nottingham">Nottingham</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire" title="Nottinghamshire">Nottinghamshire</a><sup id="cite_ref-corp_12-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>300,675 </td> <td>Nottingham </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nottinghamshire" title="Nottinghamshire">Nottinghamshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Norwich" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Norwich">Norwich</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Norfolk" title="Norfolk">Norfolk</a><sup id="cite_ref-corp_12-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>122,093 </td> <td>Norwich </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Norfolk" title="Norfolk">Norfolk</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Oldham" title="County Borough of Oldham">Oldham</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>105,922 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oldham_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Oldham (borough)">Oldham MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester" title="Greater Manchester">Greater Manchester</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Oxford" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Oxford">Oxford</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a> </td> <td>108,834 </td> <td>Oxford </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Plymouth" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Plymouth">Plymouth</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Devon </td> <td>239,467 </td> <td>Plymouth </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Devon" title="Devon">Devon</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Portsmouth" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Portsmouth">Portsmouth</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Hampshire </td> <td>197,453 </td> <td>Portsmouth </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Preston" title="County Borough of Preston">Preston</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>98,091 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Preston,_Lancashire" title="City of Preston, Lancashire">Preston</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Reading" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Reading">Reading</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a> </td> <td>132,978 </td> <td>Reading </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Berkshire" title="Berkshire">Berkshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Rochdale" title="County Borough of Rochdale">Rochdale</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>91,461 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rochdale_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rochdale (borough)">Rochdale MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester" title="Greater Manchester">Greater Manchester</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Rotherham" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Rotherham">Rotherham</a> </td> <td>1902 </td> <td>Yorkshire, West Riding </td> <td>84,800 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rotherham_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rotherham (borough)">Rotherham MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Yorkshire" title="South Yorkshire">South Yorkshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_St_Helens" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of St Helens">St Helens</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>104,326 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/St_Helens_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="St Helens (borough)">St Helens MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Merseyside" title="Merseyside">Merseyside</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Salford" title="County Borough of Salford">Salford</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>131,006 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Salford" title="City of Salford">Salford MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester" title="Greater Manchester">Greater Manchester</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Sheffield" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Sheffield">Sheffield</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Yorkshire, West Riding </td> <td>520,308 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Sheffield" title="City of Sheffield">Sheffield MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Yorkshire" title="South Yorkshire">South Yorkshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Solihull" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Solihull">Solihull</a> </td> <td>1964 </td> <td>Warwickshire </td> <td>107,086 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Solihull_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solihull (borough)">Solihull MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(county)" title="West Midlands (county)">West Midlands</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Southampton" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Southampton">Southampton</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Hampshire<sup id="cite_ref-corp_12-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>215,131 </td> <td>Southampton </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Southend-on-Sea" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Southend-on-Sea">Southend-on-Sea</a> </td> <td>1914 </td> <td>Essex </td> <td>162,735 </td> <td>Southend-on-Sea </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Southport" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Southport">Southport</a> </td> <td>1905 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>84,524 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Sefton" title="Metropolitan Borough of Sefton">Sefton MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Merseyside" title="Merseyside">Merseyside</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_South_Shields" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of South Shields">South Shields</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Durham </td> <td>100,676 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Tyneside" title="South Tyneside">South Tyneside MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tyne_and_Wear" title="Tyne and Wear">Tyne and Wear</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Stockport" title="County Borough of Stockport">Stockport</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Cheshire </td> <td>139,598 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Stockport" title="Metropolitan Borough of Stockport">Stockport MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester" title="Greater Manchester">Greater Manchester</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Stoke_on_Trent" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Stoke on Trent">Stoke on Trent</a> </td> <td>1910 </td> <td>Staffordshire </td> <td>265,258 </td> <td>Stoke-on-Trent </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Sunderland" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Sunderland">Sunderland</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Durham </td> <td>217,075 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Sunderland" title="City of Sunderland">Sunderland MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tyne_and_Wear" title="Tyne and Wear">Tyne and Wear</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Swansea" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Swansea">Swansea</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Glamorgan </td> <td>173,355 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Swansea_(district)" class="mw-redirect" title="Swansea (district)">Swansea</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Glamorgan" title="West Glamorgan">West Glamorgan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Teesside" title="County Borough of Teesside">Teesside</a> </td> <td>1968 </td> <td>Yorkshire, North Riding </td> <td>396,233 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Middlesbrough_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Middlesbrough (borough)">Middlesbrough</a> (part)<br /><a href="/wiki/Stockton-on-Tees_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stockton-on-Tees (borough)">Stockton</a> (part)<br /><a href="/wiki/Redcar_and_Cleveland" title="Redcar and Cleveland">Langbaurgh</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_(county)" title="Cleveland (county)">Cleveland</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Torbay" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Torbay">Torbay</a> </td> <td>1968 </td> <td>Devon </td> <td>109,260 </td> <td>Torbay </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Devon" title="Devon">Devon</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Tynemouth" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Tynemouth">Tynemouth</a> </td> <td>1904 </td> <td>Northumberland </td> <td>69,339 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/North_Tyneside" title="North Tyneside">North Tyneside MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tyne_and_Wear" title="Tyne and Wear">Tyne and Wear</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Wakefield" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Wakefield">Wakefield</a> </td> <td>1915 </td> <td>Yorkshire, West Riding </td> <td>59,591 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Wakefield" title="City of Wakefield">Wakefield MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire" title="West Yorkshire">West Yorkshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Wallasey" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Wallasey">Wallasey</a> </td> <td>1913 </td> <td>Cheshire </td> <td>97,216 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wirral_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wirral (borough)">Wirral MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Merseyside" title="Merseyside">Merseyside</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Walsall" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Walsall">Walsall</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Staffordshire </td> <td>184,734 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Walsall_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walsall (borough)">Walsall MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(county)" title="West Midlands (county)">West Midlands</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Warley" title="County Borough of Warley">Warley</a> </td> <td>1966 </td> <td>Worcestershire </td> <td>163,567 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sandwell" title="Sandwell">Sandwell MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(county)" title="West Midlands (county)">West Midlands</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Warrington" title="County Borough of Warrington">Warrington</a> </td> <td>1900 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>68,322 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Warrington" title="Borough of Warrington">Warrington</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cheshire" title="Cheshire">Cheshire</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_West_Bromwich" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of West Bromwich">West Bromwich</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Staffordshire </td> <td>166,592 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sandwell" title="Sandwell">Sandwell MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(county)" title="West Midlands (county)">West Midlands</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Wigan" title="County Borough of Wigan">Wigan</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Lancashire </td> <td>81,144 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wigan_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wigan (borough)">Wigan MB</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Greater_Manchester" title="Greater Manchester">Greater Manchester</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Wolverhampton" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Wolverhampton">Wolverhampton</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Staffordshire </td> <td>269,112 </td> <td>Wolverhampton MB </td> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(county)" title="West Midlands (county)">West Midlands</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Worcester" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Worcester">Worcester</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Worcestershire<sup id="cite_ref-corp_12-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>73,454 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/City_of_Worcester" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Worcester">Worcester</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hereford_and_Worcester" title="Hereford and Worcester">Hereford and Worcester</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Great_Yarmouth" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Great Yarmouth">Yarmouth</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Norfolk </td> <td>50,236 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Great_Yarmouth_(borough)" class="mw-redirect" title="Great Yarmouth (borough)">Great Yarmouth</a> (part) </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Norfolk" title="Norfolk">Norfolk</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_York" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of York">York</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>Yorkshire, West Riding<sup id="cite_ref-corp_12-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-corp-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>104,783 </td> <td>York </td> <td><a href="/wiki/North_Yorkshire" title="North Yorkshire">North Yorkshire</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-corp-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-corp_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-corp_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-corp_12-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-corp_12-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-corp_12-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-corp_12-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-corp_12-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-corp_12-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-corp_12-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-corp_12-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-corp_12-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-corp_12-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-corp_12-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">These boroughs were <a href="/wiki/County_corporate" title="County corporate">counties corporate</a> and were separate from the associated county for certain largely ceremonial purposes, principally shrievalty and administration of justice.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This county borough had <a href="/wiki/Charter_trustees" class="mw-redirect" title="Charter trustees">charter trustees</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p>Only four districts with more than one county borough were formed: <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Wirral" title="Metropolitan Borough of Wirral">Wirral</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sandwell" title="Sandwell">Sandwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Sefton" title="Metropolitan Borough of Sefton">Sefton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Kirklees" class="mw-redirect" title="Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees">Kirklees</a>. Elsewhere, county boroughs usually formed the core or all of a district named after the county borough – with the exceptions of Halifax, whose metropolitan district was named <a href="/wiki/Calderdale" title="Calderdale">Calderdale</a>, Burton upon Trent, which became part of the East Staffordshire district, and Teesside, which was split up between three non-metropolitan districts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Previous_county_boroughs">Previous county boroughs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Previous county boroughs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>County boroughs to be abolished prior to 1974 were: </p> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>County borough </th> <th>County </th> <th>Created </th> <th>Abolished </th> <th>Successor </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Croydon" title="County Borough of Croydon">Croydon</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>1965 </td> <td>Greater London: <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Croydon" title="London Borough of Croydon">London Borough of Croydon</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Devonport" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Devonport">Devonport</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Devon" title="Devon">Devon</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>1914 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Plymouth" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Plymouth">County Borough of Plymouth</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_East_Ham" title="County Borough of East Ham">East Ham</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Essex" title="Essex">Essex</a> </td> <td>1915 </td> <td>1965 </td> <td>Greater London: <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Newham" title="London Borough of Newham">London Borough of Newham</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Hanley" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Hanley">Hanley</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>1910 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Stoke_on_Trent" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Stoke on Trent">County Borough of Stoke on Trent</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Middlesbrough" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Middlesbrough">Middlesbrough</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/North_Riding_of_Yorkshire" title="North Riding of Yorkshire">Yorkshire, North Riding</a> </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>1968 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Teesside" title="County Borough of Teesside">County Borough of Teesside</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Smethwick" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Smethwick">Smethwick</a> </td> <td>Staffordshire </td> <td>1907 </td> <td>1966 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Warley" title="County Borough of Warley">County Borough of Warley</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_West_Ham" title="County Borough of West Ham">West Ham</a> </td> <td>Essex </td> <td>1889 </td> <td>1965 </td> <td>Greater London: <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Newham" title="London Borough of Newham">London Borough of Newham</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_West_Hartlepool" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of West Hartlepool">West Hartlepool</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Durham" title="County Durham">Durham</a> </td> <td>1902 </td> <td>1967 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/County_Borough_of_Hartlepool" class="mw-redirect" title="County Borough of Hartlepool">County Borough of Hartlepool</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Northern_Ireland">Northern Ireland</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Northern Ireland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The county boroughs of <a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a> and <a href="/wiki/Derry" title="Derry">Derry</a> were created by the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(Ireland)_Act_1898" title="Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898">Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898</a>. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>, local government has not used county boroughs since 1973, but they remain in use for <a href="/wiki/Lord-Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord-Lieutenant">lieutenancy</a>. </p><p>For administrative purposes the two county boroughs in Northern Ireland were replaced with two larger districts (<a href="/wiki/Belfast_City_Council" title="Belfast City Council">Belfast</a> and <a href="/wiki/Derry_City_Council" title="Derry City Council">Londonderry</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Republic_of_Ireland">Republic of Ireland</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Republic of Ireland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(Ireland)_Act_1898" title="Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898">Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898</a> created county boroughs in Ireland. Under the Act, four former counties corporate (<a href="/wiki/Cork_(city)" title="Cork (city)">Cork</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Limerick" title="Limerick">Limerick</a> and <a href="/wiki/Waterford" title="Waterford">Waterford</a>) became county boroughs. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Galway" title="Galway">Galway</a> became a county borough in 1986. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a>, the relevant legislation remained in force (although amended), and county boroughs on the original model existed until 2001. Under the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_2001" title="Local Government Act 2001">Local Government Act 2001</a> (which replaced most existing local government legislation in Ireland), the term "County Borough" was abolished and replaced with "City" (and hence, "Corporation" with "City Council"). However <a href="/wiki/Kilkenny" title="Kilkenny">Kilkenny</a>, while a traditional city, was never a county borough. Under the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Reform_Act_2014" title="Local Government Reform Act 2014">Local Government Reform Act 2014</a>, the borough of Kilkenny was abolished, but the <a href="/wiki/Local_electoral_area" title="Local electoral area">municipal district</a> containing the administrative area of the former borough of Kilkenny would be known as the Municipal District of Kilkenny City. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/County_corporate" title="County corporate">County corporate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_administrative_counties_and_county_boroughs_of_England_by_population_in_1971" title="List of administrative counties and county boroughs of England by population in 1971">List of administrative counties and county boroughs of England by population in 1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/London_boroughs" title="London boroughs">London boroughs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_borough" title="Metropolitan borough">Metropolitan borough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipal_borough" title="Municipal borough">Municipal borough</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=County_borough&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Local Government Act, 2001, with particular reference to section 10 (2) and 10 (4) (b). <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/LocalGovernmentAdministration/RHLegislation/FileDownLoad,1963,en.pdf">http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/LocalGovernmentAdministration/RHLegislation/FileDownLoad,1963,en.pdf</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120320094248/http://www.environ.ie/en/LocalGovernment/LocalGovernmentAdministration/RHLegislation/FileDownLoad%2C1963%2Cen.pdf">Archived</a> 20 March 2012 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Local Government Act 1888, s.31</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px 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London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1890. p. 324<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 December</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Annual+Report+of+the+Local+Government+Board&rft.place=London&rft.pages=324&rft.pub=Her+Majesty%27s+Stationery+Office&rft.date=1890&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DlRUwAQAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACounty+borough" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_table_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TPop&u_id=10243646&c_id=10001043&add=N">Census data on population of Merthyr Tydfil</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Local government in England and Wales during the period of reconstruction</i> (Cmd.6579)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGazette37325" class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37325/page/5238">"No. 37325"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_London_Gazette" title="The London Gazette">The London Gazette</a></i>. 26 October 1945. p. 5238.</cite><span 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Local_government_in_Victoria#Alpine_resorts" title="Local government in Victoria">Alpine resort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bailiwick" title="Bailiwick">Bailiwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banner_(administrative_division)" title="Banner (administrative division)">Banner</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Banners_of_Inner_Mongolia" title="Banners of Inner Mongolia">Autonomous</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Block_(district_subdivision)" title="Block (district subdivision)">Block</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cadastre" title="Cadastre">Cadastre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circle_(administrative_division)" title="Circle (administrative division)">Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circuit_(administrative_division)" title="Circuit (administrative division)">Circuit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colony" title="Colony">Colony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Municipality" title="Municipality">Commune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Condominium_(international_law)" title="Condominium (international law)">Condominium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constituency_(administrative_division)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency (administrative division)">Constituency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duchy" title="Duchy">Duchy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/District_duchy" title="District duchy">District</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elderships_of_Lithuania" title="Elderships of Lithuania">Eldership</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emirate" title="Emirate">Emirate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enclave_and_exclave" title="Enclave and exclave">Enclave and exclave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Dependencies_of_Venezuela" title="Federal Dependencies of Venezuela">Federal dependency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Governorate" title="Governorate">Governorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamlet_(place)" title="Hamlet (place)">Hamlet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manorialism" title="Manorialism">Manor</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_manor" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal manor">Royal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muftiate" title="Muftiate">Muftiate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neighbourhood" title="Neighbourhood">Neighbourhood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parish_(administrative_division)" title="Parish (administrative division)">Parish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_precinct" title="Electoral precinct">Precinct</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Principality" title="Principality">Principality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protectorate" title="Protectorate">Protectorate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quarter_(urban_subdivision)" title="Quarter (urban subdivision)">Quarter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_regencies_and_cities_of_Indonesia" class="mw-redirect" title="List of regencies and cities of Indonesia">Regency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_republic" title="Autonomous republic">Autonomous republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riding_(division)" title="Riding (division)">Riding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sector_(administrative_division)" title="Sector (administrative division)">Sector</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_sector" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous sector">Autonomous</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shire" title="Shire">Shire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sultanate" class="mw-redirect" title="Sultanate">Sultanate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suzerainty" title="Suzerainty">Suzerainty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Townland" title="Townland">Townland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Village" title="Village">Village</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_summer_villages_in_Alberta" title="List of summer villages in Alberta">Summer</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ward_(electoral_subdivision)" title="Ward (electoral subdivision)">Ward</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agency_(administrative_division)" title="Agency (administrative division)">Agency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barony_(county_division)" title="Barony (county division)">Barony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burgh" title="Burgh">Burgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exarchate" title="Exarchate">Exarchate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hide_(unit)" title="Hide (unit)">Hide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hundred_(county_division)" title="Hundred (county division)">Hundred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Circle" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial Circle">Imperial Circle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_(territorial_entity)" class="mw-redirect" title="March (territorial entity)">March</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monthon" title="Monthon">Monthon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_(administrative_division)" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidency (administrative division)">Presidency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Residency_(administrative_division)" title="Residency (administrative division)">Residency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_diocese" title="Roman diocese">Roman diocese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seat_(administrative_division)" title="Seat (administrative division)">Seat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenth_(administrative_division)" title="Tenth (administrative division)">Tenth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tithing" title="Tithing">Tithing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viceroyalty" title="Viceroyalty">Viceroyalty</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div 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href="/wiki/Comarca" title="Comarca">Comarca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comune" title="Comune">Comune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frazione" title="Frazione">Frazione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freguesia" title="Freguesia">Freguesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fu_(administrative_division)" title="Fu (administrative division)">Fu</a></li> <li>Gemeinde <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinde_(Austria)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemeinde (Austria)">Austria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinde_(Germany)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemeinde (Germany)">Germany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinde_(South_Tyrol)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemeinde (South Tyrol)">South Tyrol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeinde_(Switzerland)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gemeinde (Switzerland)">Switzerland</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemeente_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Gemeente (disambiguation)">Gemeente</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gmina" title="Gmina">Gmina</a></li> <li><a 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