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Local Government Boundary Commission Report 1948
The commission recommended the creation of:
- 20 one-tier counties (target population 200,000 to 1 million)
- 47 two-tier counties (target population 200,000 to 500,000)
- 63 "most-purpose" new county boroughs, which were to be part of the two-tier counties for certain purposes (target population less than 200,000)
One-tier counties
[edit]- Birmingham
- Bradford
- Bristol
- Coventry
- Kingston-upon-Hull
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Nottingham
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Sheffield
- Croydon
- Derby
- East Ham
- Southampton
- North Staffordshire (Stoke CB, Newcastle MB, Kidsgrove UD)
- Sunderland
- Central Sussex (Brighton CB, Hove MB, Portslade Shoreham, Southwick UDs)
- West Ham
Two-tier counties
[edit]- Leicestershire and Rutland merger
- Holland and Kesteven merger
- East and West Suffolk merger
- Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely, Huntingdonshire, Soke of Peterborough merger
- Westmorland and north Lancashire merger
- Cheshire (reduced in size)
- Central Lancashire
- South Lancashire
- South-east Lancashire and north-east Cheshire
- South-west Lancashire and north-west Cheshire
- Central Staffordshire
- South Staffordshire
- North Yorkshire (North Riding, Middlesbrough CB, and from Co Durham Stockton-on-Tees and Billingham)
- East Yorkshire (East Riding and York CB)
- West Yorkshire (part of West Riding)
- Bedfordshire (unchanged)
- Berkshire (unchanged)
- Buckinghamshire (unchanged)
- Cornwall (unchanged)
- Cumberland (with Carlisle CB)
- Derbyshire
- Devon (with Exeter CB)
- Dorset (with Bournemouth CB)
- Durham (less areas to north Yorkshire, with Darlington, Gateshead, South Shields, West Hartlepool CBs)
- Essex (with Southend CB)
- Gloucestershire (with Gloucester CB)
- Hampshire (renaming of county of Southampton)
- Hertfordshire (unchanged)
- Kent (with Canterbury CB)
- North Lincolnshire (Lindsey and Grimsby CB)
- Middlesex (unchanged)
- Monmouthshire (with Newport CB)
- Norfolk (with Great Yarmouth, Norwich CBs)
- Northamptonshire (with Northampton CB)
- Northumberland (with Tynemouth CB)
- Nottinghamshire (unchanged)
- Oxfordshire (with Oxford CB)
- Salop (unchanged)
- Somerset (with Bath CB)
- Surrey (unchanged)
- East Sussex (less areas to Central Sussex, with Eastbourne, Hastings CB)
- West Sussex (less areas to Central Sussex)
- Warwickshire (unchanged)
- Isle of Wight (unchanged)
- Wiltshire (unchanged)
- South Yorkshire (part of west Riding)
- Herefordshire and Worcestershire merger
Most-purpose county boroughs
[edit]- Liverpool†
- Manchester†
- Salford
- Bolton
- Wolverhampton (in S Staffs)
- Blackpool
- Southend
- Middlesbrough
- Stockport
- Bournemouth (in Dorset)
- Birkenhead
- Huddersfield
- Oldham
- Preston
- Norwich
- Reading
- Gateshead
- Walsall
- Blackburn
- York
- St Helens
- Northampton
- Oxford
- South Shields
- Newport
- Ipswich
- Wallasey
- Halifax
- Grimsby
- Rochdale
- Southport
- West Bromwich
- Wigan
- Darlington
- Burnley
- Rotherham
- Warrington
- Bath
- Doncaster
- Exeter
- Smethwick
- Barnsley
- West Hartlepool
- Bootle
- Barrow
- Lincoln
- Tynemouth
- Carlisle
- Hastings
- Gloucester
- Dudley
- Worcester
- Cambridge
- Cheltenham
- Chesterfield
- Luton
- Poole
- Slough
- Stockton (in North Yorkshire)
- Stretford
- Swindon
- Worthing
- Chatham-Gillingham-Rochester
† large enough to be a one-tier county, but to be centre of gravity for new counties of SWLNWC and SELNEC respectively
Wales
[edit]- Glamorgan - 2 tier
- Cardiff - 1 tier
- Merthyr Tydfil -county borough
- Swansea - undecided
- Remaining 11 counties to be grouped into 2, 3, 4 or 5 new counties
Sources
[edit]The Times, April 9 1948, pages 2 and 5