Talk:Local Government Act 1972/bill

I have a map dated "Local Government Bill: Government Proposals for New Counties in England with the Proposed Names" 4th November 1971.

this is just a quick infodump. it is very detailed, showing rural districts and suchforth so i should be able to conduct quite a good analysis of the differences between this and the LGA1972.


 * Avon
 * all of Sodbury Rural District, Thornbury Rural District
 * Bedfordshire
 * no change
 * Berkshire
 * Buckinghamshire
 * Cambridgeshire
 * includes Haverhill, Newmarket and part of Mildenhall Rural District and part of Clare Rural District
 * Cheshire
 * Cornwall
 * Cumbria
 * Derbyshire
 * Devon
 * Dorset
 * Durham
 * East Sussex
 * Essex
 * excludes Colchester (to Suffolk)
 * Gloucestershire
 * Greater Manchester &dagger; - 7 boroughs
 * a: Wigan
 * b: Bolton
 * c: Bury/Rochdale
 * d: Salford
 * e: Manchester
 * f: Oldham
 * g: Trafford
 * h: Stockport
 * i: Tameside
 * Hampshire
 * includes Isle of Wight
 * Hertfordshire
 * Humberside
 * Kent
 * Lancashire
 * Lincolnshire
 * Malvernshire
 * Merseyside &dagger; - 4 boroughs
 * a: Bootle/Southport
 * b: Liverpool/some random parish
 * c: St Helens
 * d: Wirral
 * Norfolk
 * did not include any part of Lothingland Rural District
 * Northamptonshire
 * Northumberland
 * North Yorkshire
 * Oxfordshire
 * Salop
 * Somerset
 * South Yorkshire &dagger; - 4 boroughs
 * a: Rotherham
 * b: Doncaster
 * c: Sheffield
 * d: Barnsley
 * Staffordshire
 * Suffolk
 * includes Colchester, Lexden and Winstree Rural District, Clacton, Frinton and Walton, Brightlighton], [[West Mersea, Wivenhoe, Tendring Rural District, Harwick
 * excludes Haverhill and Newmarket (to Cambridgeshire)
 * Surrey
 * Teesside
 * includes Whitby and Whitby Rural District
 * Tyneside &dagger;
 * Warwickshire
 * West Midlands &dagger;
 * a: Wolverhampton
 * b: Walsall
 * c: Dudley
 * d: Sandwell
 * e: Birmingham
 * f: Solihull
 * g: Coventry
 * West Sussex
 * includes Charlwood and Horley
 * West Yorkshire &dagger;
 * a: Bradford
 * b: Leeds
 * c: Calderdale
 * d: Kirklees
 * e: Wakefield
 * Wiltshire

&dagger; to be a 'metropolitan county'