User:Morwen/county changes

This is a list of changes of boundaries of geographic counties (or between administrative counties), prior to 1974, disregarding the exclave exchanges documented elsewhere. Minor realignments are ignored.

In 1888 several urban sanitary districts were incorporated wholly within one county or another. List?


 * Banbury
 * Mossley
 * Newmarket
 * Peterborough
 * Todmorden

There are also the cross-county boroughs
 * Bristol
 * Stockport
 * Warrington
 * Yarmouth


 * 1911: Caversham, Oxfordshire -> Reading, Berkshire
 * 1927: Little Bowden, Northamptonshire -> Market Harborough, Leicestershire
 * 1931: Northenden and Northern Etchells, Cheshire -> Manchester, Lancashire
 * 1934: Dore & Totley, Derbyshire -> Sheffield, West Riding
 * 1936: Mellor & Ludworth, Derbyshire -> Marple, Cheshire
 * 1965: Leighton, Buckinghamshire -> Leighton-Linslade, Bedfordshire
 * 1965: Eaton Socon and Eaton Ford -> St Neots, Huntingdonshire

to look at:
 * Birmingham
 * Redditch
 * more Stockport
 * Suffolk/Norfolk towns