asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he will arrange for the printing in the OFFICIAL REPORT before 1st April 1974 of a list of those district councils which have been accorded the status and dignities of a borough, and of those former boroughs in which charter trustees have been appointed.
I am informed that Her Majesty has granted, or has signified her intention to grant, borough status to the following districts in England:
COUNTY
GREATER MANCHESTER
District:
- Bolton
- Bury
- Oldham
- Rochdale
- Manchester
- Salford
- Stockport
- Thameside
- Trafford
- Wigan
MERSEYSIDE
- Knowsley
- Liverpool
- St. Helens
- Wirral
SOUTH YORKSHIRE
- Barnsley
- Doncaster
- Rotherham
- Sheffield
TYNE AND WEAR
- Gateshead
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- North Tyneside
- South Tyneside
- Sunderland
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 |