Wikipedia:Index of articles on UK Parliament constituencies in England A-M

This article is the first part of a list comprising an Index of articles on UK Parliament constituencies in England. It covers articles starting with A-M inclusive. For the second part see Index of articles on UK Parliament constituencies in England N-Z.

Each entry incorporates the name of the article, with the official names and periods of the constituencies included.

Criteria
The article should relate to roughly the same area. The constituency in each period included should have an identical or similar name. The article name should, in general, follow the form of the most recent version of the constituency (this relates to things like the use or non use of hyphens and variation of spelling and word order).

In general the trend over time has been to make the constituency names more official and to reduce the amount of punctuation. Therefore forms like 'St Albans' and 'Birmingham Edgbaston' are preferred to 'St. Albans' and 'Birmingham, Edgbaston'. Only constituencies with three or four place names included in the official name should include commas in the article name.

Before 1950 English county constituencies using compass point division names were usually referred to in a form like 'Southern Dorset'. Since 1950 the form would be 'South Dorset'. To avoid confusion the latter form is used for all article names of this type. The only exceptions are the divisions of West Riding of Yorkshire as 'North West Riding of Yorkshire' is more confusing than 'Northern West Riding of Yorkshire'.

Where there is scope for confusion unofficial prefixes or suffixes are used, unless there is an official one at some point in the constituencies history. Thus 'City of Durham' is used for the Durham constituency, even though the official prefix was only added in recent redistributions. Another official example is 'Richmond (Yorks)'. By analogy unofficial suffixes are used such as 'Wellington (Shropshire)' and 'Wellington (Somerset)'. These may sometimes disambiguate from constituencies in other parts of the United Kingdom, like 'Louth (Lincolnshire)' to distinguish it from the Irish 'County Louth'. In a few instances counties usually referred to in a form like 'Derbyshire' are referred to as 'County of Derby'. The former version is preferred for article names.

London borough names, although part of the official constituency names in 1974-1983, are not usually used in article names relating to that period.

Article names which depart from the naming criteria generally adopted are indicated in footnotes.

List
Article names are followed by (UK Parliament constituency). The constituencies which existed in 1707 were those previously represented in the Parliament of England.

For articles N-Z see Index of articles on UK Parliament constituencies in England N-Z.

A
Note:-
 * a The above entry relates to the Acton constituency article which currently (December 2006) exists. There is a related article for Ealing Acton for the period from 1983. The official name for the constituency 1974-1983 was Ealing Acton but, in accordance with the practice adopted for other Greater London constituencies in the 1974 redistribution, the London Borough prefix has been ignored. In the 1983 redistribution the London Borough name was dropped from most Greater London official constituency names, but retained for Ealing Acton.

B
Note:-
 * a Greater London constituency, in existence during the 1974-1983 redistribution. The London Borough prefix, in the official name, is commonly ignored contrary to the usual practice.

C
Note:
 * 1 Word order in existing article name is incorrect. There is a re-direct from the correct name in this list.

E
Note:-
 * a The use of a London Borough prefix for 1974-1983 is ignored.
 * b The current article name is Ealing, Southall. Although this follows the punctuation of the official name, it does not comply with our usual practice of ignoring commas. There is a redirect from Ealing Southall, our standard version of the name. The use of the Ealing prefix in 1974-1983 is ignored, see Southall.

F
Notes:-
 * 1 Existing article is Fylde North, with a redirect from the correct North Fylde.
 * 2 Existing article is Fylde South, with a redirect from the correct South Fylde.

L
Note:-
 * a Article name currently with compass point after place name. A redirect exists from the correct name, with the compass point before the place name.
 * c Article name currently 'Abercromby'. A redirect exists from 'Liverpool Abercromby'.
 * d Article name currently 'Louth, Lincolnshire'. A redirect exists from 'Louth (Lincolnshire)'. The suffixes are unofficial to disambiguate from 'County Louth'.

Reference

 * The House of Commons 1754-1790, by Sir Lewis Namier and John Brooke (HMSO 1964)