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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

 * 1) Birmingham
 * 2) Bradford
 * 3) Bristol
 * 4) Coventry
 * 5) Kingston-upon-Hull
 * 6) Leeds
 * 7) Leicester
 * 8) Newcastle-upon-Tyne
 * 9) Nottingham
 * 10) Plymouth
 * 11) Portsmouth
 * 12) Sheffield
 * 13) Croydon
 * 14) Derby
 * 15) East Ham
 * 16) Southampton
 * 17) North Staffordshire (Stoke CB, Newcastle MB, Kidsgrove UD)
 * 18) Sunderland
 * 19) Central Sussex (Brighton CB, Hove MB, Portslade Shoreham, Southwick UDs)
 * 20) West Ham

Two-tier counties

 * 1) Leicestershire and Rutland merger
 * 2) Holland and Kesteven merger
 * 3) East and West Suffolk merger
 * 4) Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely, Huntingdonshire, Soke of Peterborough merger
 * 5) Westmorland and north Lancashire merger
 * 6) Cheshire (reduced in size)
 * 7) Central Lancashire
 * 8) South Lancashire
 * 9) South-east Lancashire and north-east Cheshire
 * 10) South-west Lancashire and north-west Cheshire
 * 11) Central Staffordshire
 * 12) South Staffordshire
 * 13) North Yorkshire (North Riding, Middlesbrough CB, and from Co Durham Stockton-on-Tees and Billingham)
 * 14) East Yorkshire (East Riding and York CB)
 * 15) West Yorkshire (part of West Riding)
 * 16) Bedfordshire (unchanged)
 * 17) Berkshire (unchanged)
 * 18) Buckinghamshire (unchanged)
 * 19) Cornwall (unchanged)
 * 20) Cumberland (with Carlisle CB)
 * 21) Derbyshire
 * 22) Devon (with Exeter CB)
 * 23) Dorset (with Bournemouth CB)
 * 24) Durham (less areas to north Yorkshire, with Darlington, Gateshead, South Shields, West Hartlepool CBs)
 * 25) Essex (with Southend CB)
 * 26) Gloucestershire (with Gloucester CB)
 * 27) Hampshire (renaming of county of Southampton)
 * 28) Hertfordshire (unchanged)
 * 29) Kent (with Canterbury CB)
 * 30) North Lincolnshire (Lindsey and Grimsby CB)
 * 31) Middlesex (unchanged)
 * 32) Monmouthshire (with Newport CB)
 * 33) Norfolk (with Great Yarmouth, Norwich CBs)
 * 34) Northamptonshire (with Northampton CB)
 * 35) Northumberland (with Tynemouth CB)
 * 36) Nottinghamshire (unchanged)
 * 37) Oxfordshire (with Oxford CB)
 * 38) Salop (unchanged)
 * 39) Somerset (with Bath CB)
 * 40) Surrey (unchanged)
 * 41) East Sussex (less areas to Central Sussex, with Eastbourne, Hastings CB)
 * 42) West Sussex (less areas to Central Sussex)
 * 43) Warwickshire (unchanged)
 * 44) Isle of Wight (unchanged)
 * 45) Wiltshire (unchanged)
 * 46) South Yorkshire (part of west Riding)
 * 47) Herefordshire and Worcestershire merger

Most-purpose county boroughs

 * 1) Liverpool&dagger;
 * 2) Manchester&dagger;
 * 3) Salford
 * 4) Bolton
 * 5) Wolverhampton (in S Staffs)
 * 6) Blackpool
 * 7) Southend
 * 8) Middlesbrough
 * 9) Stockport
 * 10) Bournemouth (in Dorset)
 * 11) Birkenhead
 * 12) Huddersfield
 * 13) Oldham
 * 14) Preston
 * 15) Norwich
 * 16) Reading
 * 17) Gateshead
 * 18) Walsall
 * 19) Blackburn
 * 20) York
 * 21) St Helens
 * 22) Northampton
 * 23) Oxford
 * 24) South Shields
 * 25) Newport
 * 26) Ipswich
 * 27) Wallasey
 * 28) Halifax
 * 29) Grimsby
 * 30) Rochdale
 * 31) Southport
 * 32) West Bromwich
 * 33) Wigan
 * 34) Darlington
 * 35) Burnley
 * 36) Rotherham
 * 37) Warrington
 * 38) Bath
 * 39) Doncaster
 * 40) Exeter
 * 41) Smethwick
 * 42) Barnsley
 * 43) West Hartlepool
 * 44) Bootle
 * 45) Barrow
 * 46) Lincoln
 * 47) Tynemouth
 * 48) Carlisle
 * 49) Hastings
 * 50) Gloucester
 * 51) Dudley
 * 52) Worcester
 * 53) Cambridge
 * 54) Cheltenham
 * 55) Chesterfield
 * 56) Luton
 * 57) Poole
 * 58) Slough
 * 59) Stockton (in North Yorkshire)
 * 60) Stretford
 * 61) Swindon
 * 62) Worthing
 * 63) Chatham-Gillingham-Rochester

&dagger; large enough to be a one-tier county, but to be centre of gravity for new counties of SWLNWC and SELNEC respectively

Wales

 * 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