List of rural and urban districts in England in 1973

This is a list of all the rural districts, urban districts and municipal boroughs in England as they existed prior to the entry into force of the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974. There were 1086 such districts and boroughs at this time, the result of a gradual consolidation since their formation in 1894. Apart from these, England also had 79 county boroughs.

Bedford
Luton was a county borough.

Berkshire
Reading was a county borough.

Buckingham
There were no county boroughs.

Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely
There were no county boroughs.

Cheshire
Birkenhead, Chester, Stockport, and Wallasey were county boroughs.

Cornwall
There were no county boroughs.

Cumberland
Carlisle was a county borough.

Derbyshire
Derby was a county borough.

Devon
Exeter, Plymouth and Torbay were county boroughs.

Durham
Darlington, Gateshead, Hartlepool, South Shields, Sunderland and Teesside were county boroughs.

East Suffolk
Ipswich was a county borough.

East Sussex
Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings were county boroughs.

Essex
Southend-on-Sea was a county borough.

Gloucestershire
Bristol and Gloucester were county boroughs.

Hampshire
Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Southampton were county boroughs.

Herefordshire
There were no county boroughs.

Hertfordshire
There were no county boroughs.

Huntingdon and Peterborough
There were no county boroughs.

Isle of Wight
There were no county boroughs.

Kent
Canterbury was a county borough.

Lancashire
Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Bootle, Burnley, Bury, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, Salford, Southport, St Helens, Warrington and Wigan were county boroughs.

Leicestershire
Leicester was a county borough.

Lincolnshire, Parts of Holland
There were no county boroughs.

Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven
There were no county boroughs.

Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey
Grimsby and Lincoln were county boroughs.

Norfolk
Great Yarmouth and Norwich were county boroughs.

Northamptonshire
Northampton was a county borough.

Northumberland
Newcastle upon Tyne and Tynemouth were county boroughs.

Nottinghamshire
Nottingham was a county borough.

Oxford
Oxford was a county borough.

Rutland
There were no county boroughs.

Shropshire (Salop)
There were no county boroughs.

Somerset
Bath (and Bristol) were county boroughs.

Staffordshire
Burton upon Trent, Dudley, Stoke-on-Trent, Walsall, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton were county boroughs.

Surrey
There were no county boroughs.

Warwickshire
Coventry, Solihull and Birmingham were county boroughs.

West Suffolk
There were no county boroughs.

West Sussex
There were no county boroughs.

Westmorland
There were no county boroughs.

Wiltshire
There were no county boroughs.

Worcestershire
Warley and Worcester were county boroughs.

Yorkshire, East Riding
Kingston upon Hull and York were county boroughs.

Yorkshire, North Riding
York and Teesside were county boroughs.

Yorkshire, West Riding
Barnsley, Bradford, Dewsbury, Doncaster, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, Rotherham, Sheffield, Wakefield and York were county boroughs.