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Civic functions transferred to Berwick-upon-Tweed Town Council.[13]Beverley1 April 1974[8][9]Beverley (reformed 1835)Renamed East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley 1981. Abolished 1996.Birmingham1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Birmingham (1838), Sutton Coldfield (1885)[14]Blackburn1 April 1974[8][9]Blackburn (1851), Darwen (1878)Renamed Blackburn with Darwen 1997Blackpool1 April 1974[8][9]Blackpool (1876)Blyth Valley1 April 1974[8][9]Blyth (1922)Abolished in April 2009.[13]Bolton1 April 1974[8][9]Bolton (1838)Boothferry28 April 1978[15]Goole (1933)Goole had charter trustees 1974\u20131978. Abolished 1996.Boston1 April 1974[8][9]Boston (reformed 1835)Bournemouth1 April 1974[8][9]Bournemouth (1890)Abolished April 2019Bracknell Forest27 April 1988[16]NoneBradford1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Bradford (1847)Brentwood10 March 1993[17]NoneBrighton1 April 1974[8][9]Brighton (1854)Abolished 1997.Brighton & Hove1 April 1997[18] (granted city status in 2000)Formed from Brighton, Hove districtsBristol1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Bristol (reformed 1835)Broxbourne1 April 1974[8][9]NoneBroxtowe10 November 1977[12]NoneBurnley1 April 1974[8][9]Burnley (1861)Bury1 April 1974[8][9]Bury (1876)Calderdale1 April 1974[8][9]Halifax (1848), Brighouse (1893), Todmorden (1896)Cambridge1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Cambridge (reformed 1835)Canterbury1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Canterbury (reformed 1835)Carlisle1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Carlisle (reformed 1835)Castle Morpeth1 April 1974[8][9]Morpeth (reformed 1835)Abolished in April 2009.[13][19]Castle Point1992[20]NoneCharnwood1 April 1974[8][9]Loughborough (1888)Chelmsford10 November 1977[12]Chelmsford (1888)Chelmsford had charter trustees 1974\u20131977Granted city status in 2012Cheltenham1 April 1974[8][9]Cheltenham (1876)Cheshire East1 April 2009[21][22]Congleton, Crewe and Nantwich, MacclesfieldCreated April 2009Cheshire West and Chester1 April 2009[21][22]Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Vale RoyalCreated April 2009Chester1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Chester (reformed 1835)Abolished April 2009Chesterfield1 April 1974[8][9]Chesterfield (reformed 1835)Chorley1 April 1974[8][9]Chorley (1881)Christchurch1 April 1974[8][9]Christchurch (reformed 1886)Abolished April 2019Cleethorpes11 September 1975[23]Cleethorpes (1936)Cleethorpes had charter trustees 1974\u20131975. Borough abolished 1996Colchester1 April 1974[8][9]Colchester (reformed 1835)Granted city status in 2022Congleton1 April 1974[8][9]Congleton (reformed 1835)Abolished April 2009Copeland1 April 1974[8][9]Whitehaven (1894)Corby28 October 1992[17]NoneAbolished April 2021Coventry1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Coventry (reformed 1835)Crawley1 April 1974[8][9]NoneCrewe and Nantwich1 April 1974[8][9]Crewe (1877)Abolished April 2009Dacorum10 October 1984[24]Hemel Hempstead (1898)Hemel Hempstead had charter trustees 1974\u20131984Darlington1 April 1974[8][9]Darlington (1867)Dartford22 April 1977[25]Dartford (1933)Dartford had charter trustees 1974\u20131977Derby1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status in 1977)Derby (reformed 1835)Doncaster1 April 1974[8][9]Doncaster (reformed 1835)Granted city status in 2022Dudley1 April 1974[8][9]Dudley (1865), Stourbridge (1914), Halesowen (1936)Durham1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Durham and Framwellgate (reformed 1835)Abolished April 2009. Charter Trustees established.[26]East Staffordshire11 May 1992[17]Burton upon Trent (1878)Charter trustees for Burton functioned 1974\u20131992.They were formally abolished in 2003.East YorkshireSee North WoldsEast Yorkshire Borough of BeverleySee BeverleyEastbourne1 April 1974[8][9]Eastbourne (1883)Eastleigh1 April 1974[8][9]Eastleigh (1936)Ellesmere Port1 April 1974[8][9]Ellesmere Port (1955)renamed Ellesmere Port and Neston 1976. Abolished April 2009.Elmbridge1 April 1974[8][9]NoneEpsom and Ewell1 April 1974[8][9]Epsom and Ewell (1937)Erewash1975Ilkeston (1887)Ilkeston had charter trustees 1974\u20131975Exeter1 April 1974[8][9](and city status)Exeter (reformed 1835)Fareham1 April 1974[8][9]NoneFylde1 April 1974[8][9]Lytham St. Annes (1922)Gateshead1 April 1974[8][9]Gateshead (reformed 1835)Gedling1 April 1974[8][9]NoneGillingham1 April 1974[8][9]Gillingham (1903)Abolished 1996Glanford1 April 1974[8][9]NoneAbolished 1996Gloucester1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Gloucester (reformed 1835)Gosport1 April 1974[8][9]Gosport (1922)Gravesham1 April 1974[8][9]Gravesend (reformed 1835)Great Yarmouth1 April 1974[8][9]Great Yarmouth (reformed 1835)Grimsby1 April 1974[8][9]Grimsby (reformed 1835)Renamed Great Grimsby 1979, abolished 1996.Guildford1 April 1974[8][9]Guildford (reformed 1835)Halton1 April 1974[8][9]Widnes (1892)Harrogate1 April 1974[8][9]Harrogate (1884)Hartlepool1 April 1974[8][9]Hartlepool formed 1967 from Hartlepool (1850), West Hartlepool (1887)Hastings1 April 1974[8][9]Hastings (reformed 1835)Havant1 April 1974[8][9]NoneHereford1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Hereford (reformed 1835)Abolished 1998Hertsmere15 April 1977[25]NoneHigh Peak1 April 1974[8][9]Glossop (1866), Buxton (1917)Hinckley and Bosworth1 April 1974[8][9]NoneHolderness21 June 1977[27]Hedon (1861) (formed a town council in 1974)Abolished 1996Hove1 April 1974[8][9]Hove (1898)Abolished 1997Hyndburn1 April 1974[8][9]Accrington (1878)Ipswich1 April 1974[8][9]Ipswich (reformed 1835)Kettering1 April 1974[8][9]Kettering (1938)Abolished April 2021King’s Lynn and West NorfolkSee West NorfolkKingston upon Hull1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Kingston upon Hull (reformed 1835)Kingswood20 May 1987[7]NoneAbolished 1996Kirklees1 April 1974[8][9]Dewsbury (1862), Huddersfield (1868), Batley (1868), Spenborough (1955)Knowsley1 April 1974[8][9]NoneLancaster1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Lancaster (reformed 1835)Langbaurgh1 April 1974[8][9]Formed from part of Teesside county borough, created in 1967, and including Redcar (incorporated in 1921)Renamed Langbaurgh on Tees 1988Renamed Redcar and Cleveland 1996Leeds1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Leeds (reformed 1835), Pudsey (1889)Leicester1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Leicester (reformed 1835)Lincoln1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Lincoln (reformed 1835)Liverpool1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Liverpool (reformed 1835)Luton1 April 1974[8][9]Luton (1876)Macclesfield1 April 1974[8][9]Macclesfield (reformed 1835)Abolished April 2009Maidstone1 April 1974[8][9]Maidstone (reformed 1835)Manchester1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Manchester (1838)Medina1 April 1974[8][9]Newport (reformed 1835), Ryde (1868)Abolished 1995Medway (1)1 April 1974[8][9]Rochester (reformed 1835), Chatham (1890)Renamed Rochester-upon-Medway 1979, and awarded city status.Abolished 1998Medway (2)1998From Rochester upon Medway, Gillingham boroughs (q.v.)Melton1 April 1974[8][9]NoneMiddlesbrough1 April 1974[8][9]Formed from part of Teesside county borough, created in 1967, and including Middlesbrough (incorporated in 1853)Milton Keynes1 April 1974[8][9]NoneGranted city status in 2022Newcastle-under-Lyme1 April 1974[8][9]Newcastle-under-Lyme (reformed 1835)Newcastle upon Tyne1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Newcastle upon Tyne (reformed 1835)Northampton[28]1 April 1974[8][9]Northampton (reformed 1835)Abolished April 2021. Mayoralty continued by Northampton Town CouncilNorth Bedfordshire1975Bedford (reformed 1835)Renamed Bedford 1992North East Lincolnshire23 August 1996[29]From Cleethorpes, Great Grimsby boroughs (q.v.)Both former boroughs formed charter trusteesNorth Lincolnshire16 December 1996[29]Formed from Boothferry, Glanford, and Scunthorpe boroughs (q.v.)Scunthorpe’s mayoralty is continued by charter trusteesNorth Tyneside1 April 1974[8][9]Tynemouth (1849), Wallsend (1901)North Warwickshire1 April 1974[8][9]NoneNorth Wolds1 April 1974[8][9]Bridlington (1899)Renamed East Yorkshire 1981.Abolished 1996Norwich1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Norwich (reformed 1835)Nottingham1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Nottingham (reformed 1835)Nuneaton1 April 1974[8][9]Nuneaton (1907)Renamed Nuneaton and Bedworth 1980Oadby and Wigston1 April 1974[8][9]NoneOldham1 April 1974[8][9]Oldham (1849)Oswestry1 April 1974[8][9]Oswestry Rural Borough (reformed 1835)Abolished in April 2009.Oxford1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Oxford (reformed 1835)Pendle15 September 1976[23]Nelson (1890), Colne (1895)Peterborough1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Peterborough (1874)Plymouth1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Plymouth (reformed 1835)Poole1 April 1974[8][9]Poole (reformed 1835)Abolished April 2019Portsmouth1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Portsmouth (reformed 1835)Preston1 April 1974[8][9] (granted city status in 2002)Preston (reformed 1835)Reading1 April 1974[8][9]Reading (reformed 1835)Redcar and ClevelandSee LangbaurghRedditch15 May 1980[30]NoneReigate and Banstead1 April 1974[8][9]Reigate (reformed (1863)Restormel1 April 1974[8][9]St. Austell with Fowey (formed 1968, including Fowey 1913)Abolished in April 2009.Ribble Valley1 April 1974[8][9]Clitheroe (reformed 1835)Rochdale1 April 1974[8][9]Rochdale (1856), Heywood (1881), Middleton (1886)Rochester upon MedwaySee Medway (1)Rossendale1 April 1974[8][9]Bacup (1882), Haslingden (1891), Rawtenstall (1891)Rotherham1 April 1974[8][9]Rotherham, (1871)Rugby1 April 1974[8][9]Rugby (1932)Runnymede20 January 1978[12]NoneRushcliffe1 April 1974[8][9]NoneRushmoor1 April 1974[8][9]Aldershot (1922)St Albans1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)St Albans (reformed 1835)St Edmundsbury1 April 1974[8][9]Bury St Edmunds (reformed 1835)Abolished April 2019St Helens1 April 1974[8][9]St Helens (1868)Salford1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Salford (1844), Eccles (1892), Swinton and Pendlebury (1934)Sandwell1 April 1974[8][9]West Bromwich (1882), including since 1966 the former boroughs of Tipton (1938) and Wednesbury (1886);[31]Warley (1966), including the former boroughs of Smethwick (1899), Rowley Regis (1933), and Oldbury (1935)Scarborough1 April 1974[8][9]Scarborough (reformed 1835)Scunthorpe1 April 1974[8][9]Scunthorpe (1936)Abolished 1996Sedgefield17 October 1996[29]NoneAbolished April 2009. Mayoralty continued by Sedgefield Town Council[26]Sefton17 April 1975Southport (1866), Bootle (1868), Crosby (1937)All three towns formed charter trustees 1974\u20131975Sheffield1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Sheffield (1843)Shrewsbury and Atcham1 April 1974[8][9]Shrewsbury (reformed 1835)Abolished in April 2009.[32]Slough1 April 1974[8][9]Slough (1938)Solihull1 April 1974[8][9]Solihull (1954)Southampton1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Southampton (reformed 1835)Southend-on-Sea1 April 1974[8][9]Southend-on-Sea (1892)Granted city status in 2022South Ribble1 April 1974[8][9]NoneSouth Tyneside1 April 1974[8][9]South Shields (1850), Jarrow (1875)South Wight1974?NoneAbolished 1995Spelthorne1 April 1974[8][9]NoneStafford1 April 1974[8][9]Stafford (reformed 1835)Stevenage1 April 1974[8][9]NoneStockport1 April 1974[8][9]Stockport (reformed 1835)Stockton-on-Tees1 April 1974[8][9]Formed from part of Teesside county borough, created in 1967, and including Stockton-on-Tees (reformed 1835) and Thornaby-on-Tees (incorporated in 1892)Stoke-on-Trent1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Stoke-on-Trent formed 1910, including boroughs of Hanley (incorporated in 1857), Longton (1865), Burslem (1878), Stoke-upon-Trent (1874).Sunderland1 April 1974[8][9] (granted city status in 1992)Sunderland (reformed 1835)Surrey Heath1 April 1974[8][9]NoneSwale20 January 1978[12]Faversham (reformed 1835), Queenborough-in-Sheppey (created 1968, including borough of Queenborough, reformed in 1885)Queenborough-in-Sheppey formed charter trustees 1974\u20131977SwindonSee ThamesdownTameside1 April 1974[8][9]Ashton-under-Lyne (1847), Stalybridge (1857), Hyde (1881), Mossley (1885), Dukinfield (1899)Tamworth1 April 1974[8][9]Tamworth (reformed 1835)Taunton Deane1975Taunton (1885)Taunton had charter trustees 1974\u20131975, Abolished April 2019Telford and Wrekin2002NoneTest Valley22 October 1976[23]Andover, Romsey, both reformed 1835Andover had charter trustees 1974\u20131976. Romsey formed a town council.Tewkesbury1 April 1974[8][9]Tewkesbury (reformed 1835)Thamesdown1 April 1974[8][9]Swindon (1900)Renamed Swindon 1997Thurrock1 April 1974[8][9]NoneTonbridge and Malling12 December 1983[33]NoneTorbay1 April 1974[8][9]County borough of Torbay \u2013 created 1968, and including the borough of Torquay incorporated in 1892Trafford1 April 1974[8][9]Stretford (1933), Sale (1935), Altrincham (1937)Tunbridge Wells1 April 1974[8][9]Royal Tunbridge Wells (1888)Charter trustees for Royal Tunbridge Wells existed from 1 April to 20 December 1974Vale Royal5 May 1988[16]NoneAbolished April 2009Wakefield1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Pontefract (reformed 1835), Wakefield (1848), Ossett (1890), Castleford (1955)Walsall1 April 1974[8][9][34]Walsall (reformed 1835)Warrington1 April 1974[8][9]Warrington (1847)Watford1 April 1974[8][9]Watford (1922)Waverley21 February 1984[33]Godalming (reformed 1835)Godalming formed a town council in 1974Wellingborough1 April 1974[8][9]NoneAbolished April 2021Welwyn Hatfield2006NoneWest Devon27 April 1982[35]Okehampton (reformed 1885)Okehampton formed a town council in 1974West Norfolk30 June 1981[30]King’s Lynn (reformed 1835)Renamed King’s Lynn and West Norfolk 14 May 1981[30]West Lancashire1 April 2009[21][36]NoneWeymouth and Portland1 April 1974[8][9]Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (reformed 1835)Abolished April 2019Wigan1 April 1974[8][9]Wigan (reformed 1835), Leigh (1899)Leigh Abolished 1972Winchester1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Winchester (reformed 1835)Windsor and Maidenhead1 April 1974[8][9] (Royal Borough)Windsor, Maidenhead, both reformed 1835Wirral1 April 1974[8][9]Birkenhead (1877), Wallasey (1910), Bebington (1937)Woking1 April 1974[8][9]noneWokingham2007[37]Wokingham (reformed 1883)Wokingham formed a town council in 1974Wolverhampton1 April 1974.[8][9] Granted city status 2000Wolverhampton (1848). Had absorbed the borough of Bilston in 1967 (incorporated in 1938).Worcester1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)Worcester (reformed 1835)Worthing1 April 1974[8][9]Worthing, 1890Wyre1 April 1974[8][9]Fleetwood (1933)York (1)1 April 1974[8][9] (and city status)York (reformed 1835)The District was abolished and replaced with a larger unitary authority in 1996York (2)1 April 1996[29] (and city status)Created in 1996. Inherited traditions from the smaller York district."},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki5\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki5\/borough-status-in-the-united-kingdom\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Borough status in the United Kingdom"}}]}]