User:Morwen/England

The original plan for the 1974 reform was much more extensive than the version finally passed. Changes proposed by the Government, but that did not make it into the Act included


 * Isle of Wight merged into Hampshire
 * Glossop part of Tameside in Greater Manchester
 * Skipton and Harrogate part of Leeds in West Yorkshire
 * Ellesmere Port part of Wirral in Merseyside
 * Skelmersdale part of Merseyside
 * Long Eaton part of Nottinghamshire
 * Brackley part of Oxfordshire
 * Lowestoft part of Norfolk
 * Aldershot -> somewhere
 * Ingleton -> Lancashire
 * Cherlwood and Horley -> West Sussex

other stuff


 * Hereford and Worcester was suggested to be 'Malvernshire'
 * Cleveland originally called 'Teesside', changed to avoid seeming like an expanded Teesside county borough