Abbreviation | Meaning |
---|---|
CB | County Borough |
Dist | District or modern Borough |
MunB | Municipal Borough |
MetB | Metropolitan Borough |
RD | Rural District |
UD | Urban District |
Name | Type | Creation Date | Predecessor(s) |
Gains (G) and Losses (L) | Abolition Date | Successor(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alderley Edge | Urban District | 1894[1] | 1974[2] | Macclesfield Dist[2] | ||
Alsager | Urban District | 1894[3] | 1974[2] | Congleton Dist[2] | ||
Altrincham | Municipal Borough | 1937[4] | Altrincham UD; Bucklow RD (part) |
1974[5] | Trafford MetB[6] | |
Altrincham | Urban District | 1894[7] | 1937[7] | Altrincham MunB | ||
Altrincham | Rural District | 1894[7] | 1895[7] | Bucklow RD | ||
Ashton upon Mersey | Urban District | 1895[7] | 1930[7] | Sale UD[8] | ||
Bebington | Urban District | 1933[7] | Bebington and Bromborough UD | 1937[7] | ||
Bebington and Bromborough | Urban District | 1922[7] | Higher Bebington UD; Lower Bebington UD[9] |
1933[7] | Bebington UD | |
Bebington | Municipal Borough | 1937[4] | Bromborough UD; Higher Bebington UD; Lower Bebington UD; Wirrall RD (part) |
1974[10] | Wirral MetB[11] | |
Bollington | Urban District | 1974[2] | Macclesfield Dist[2] | |||
Bowdon | Urban District | 1974[5] | Trafford MetB[6] | |||
Birkenhead | County Borough | 1888[4] | 1974[10] | Wirral MetB[11] | ||
Bredbury and Romiley | Urban District | 1894 | 1974[5] | Stockport MetB[12] | ||
Bromborough | Urban District | 1894[7] | 1933[7] | Bebington MunB | ||
Bucklow | Rural District | 1895[7] | 1974[13] | Trafford MetB;[14] Manchester MetB;[15] Macclesfield Dist[16] | ||
Buglawton | Urban District | 1894[7] | 1936[7] | |||
Cheadle and Gatley | Urban District | 1894[17] | 1974[5] | Stockport MetB[12] | ||
Chester[18] | County Borough | 1888[4] | 1974[2] | Chester Dist[2] | ||
Chester | Rural District | 1974[2] | Chester Dist[2] | |||
Compstall | Urban District | 1902[7] | 1936[7] | |||
Congleton | Municipal Borough | 1974[2] | Congleton Dist[2] | |||
Congleton | Rural District | 1974[2] | Congleton Dist[2] | |||
Crewe | Municipal Borough | 1877[4] | 1974[2] | Crewe and Nantwich Dist[2] | ||
Disley | Rural District | 1936 (G)[19] | 1974[2] | Macclesfield Dist[2] | ||
Dukinfield | Municipal Borough | 1899[4] | 1974[5] | Tameside MetB[20] | ||
Dukinfield | Urban District | 1894[21] | 1899[21] | Dukinfield MunB[4] | ||
Ellesmere Port | Urban District | 1933[21] | Ellesmere Port and Whitby UD | 1955[21] | Ellesmere Port MunB | |
Ellesmere Port | Municipal Borough | 1955[4] | 1974[2] | Ellesmere Port and Neston Dist[2] | ||
Ellesmere Port and Whitby | Urban District | 1902[21] | Chester RD (part), Wirral RD (part) | 1933[21] | Ellesmere Port UD | |
Hale | Urban District | 1900[21] | 1974[22] | Trafford MetB[6] | ||
Handforth | Urban District | 1904[21] | Stockport RD[23] | 1936[21] | Cheadle and Gatley UD;[24] Wilmslow UD[24] | |
Hazel Grove and Bramhall | Urban District | 1900[21] | Stockport RD[25] | 1974[22] | Stockport MetB[12] | |
Higher Bebington | Urban District | 1894[7] | 1922[7] | Bebington and Bromborough UD[9] | ||
Hollingworth | Urban District | 1894[21] | 1936[21] | |||
Hoole | Urban District | 1894[21] | 1954[21] | |||
Hoylake | Urban District | 1933[21] | Hoylake and West Kirby UD | 1974[26] | Wirral MetB[11] | |
Hoylake and West Kirby | Urban District | 1897[21] | West Kirby and Hoylake UD | 1933[21] | Hoylake UD | |
Hyde | Municipal Borough | 1881[4] | 1974[5] | Tameside MetB[20] | ||
Knutsford | Urban District | 1895[21] | 1974[21] | Macclesfield Dist[2] | ||
Longdendale | Urban District | 1936[21] | 1974[22] | Tameside MetB[20] | ||
Lower Bebington | Urban District | 1894[7] | 1922[7] | Bebington and Bromborough UD[9] | ||
Lymm | Urban District | 1974[2] | Warrington Dist[2] | |||
Macclesfield | Municipal Borough | 1974[2] | Macclesfield Dist[2] | |||
Macclesfield | Rural District | 1894[27] | 1974[2] | Macclesfield Dist[2] | ||
Malpas | Rural District | 1894[21] | 1936[21] | Tarvin RD (the larger part); Nantwich RD (the smaller part) | ||
Marple | Urban District | 1894[28] | 1974[5] | Stockport MetB[12] | ||
Middlewich | Urban District | 1974[2] | Congleton Dist[2] | |||
Mottram in Longdendale | Urban District | 1894[21] | 1936[21] | Longdendale UD | ||
Nantwich | Rural District | 1974[2] | Crewe and Nantwich Dist[2] | |||
Nantwich | Urban District | 1974[2] | Crewe and Nantwich Dist[2] | |||
Neston | Urban District | 1933[21] | Neston and Parkgate UD | 1974[21] | Ellesmere Port and Neston Dist[2] | |
Neston and Parkgate | Urban District | 1894[21] | 1933[21] | Neston UD | ||
Northwich | Rural District | 1974[2] | Vale Royal Dist[2] | |||
Northwich | Urban District | 1974[2] | Vale Royal Dist[2] | |||
Runcorn | Rural District | 1937 (L)[29] | 1974[2] | Vale Royal Dist;[2] Warrington Dist;[2] Halton Dist[2] | ||
Runcorn | Urban District | 1974[2] | Halton Dist[2] | |||
Sale | Municipal Borough | 1936[4] | 1974[5] | Trafford MetB[6] | ||
Sale | Urban District | 1894[30] | 1935[2] | Sale MunB | ||
Sandbach | Urban District | 1974[2] | Congleton Dist[2] | |||
Stalybridge | Municipal Borough | 1857[4] | 1974[5] | Tameside MetB[20] | ||
Stockport[31] | County Borough | 1888[4] | 1974[5] | Stockport MetB[12] | ||
Stockport | Rural District | 1894[2] | 1904[2] | Handforth UD[32] | ||
Tarporley | Urban District | 1894[2] | 1936[2] | |||
Tarvin | Rural District | pre 1937 (G)[33] | 1974[2] | Chester Dist[2] | ||
Tintwistle | Rural District | 1974[34] | High Peak Dist[35] | |||
Tittenley | Rural District | 1894[36] | none | 1895[36] | Drayton RD (Shropshire)[36] | |
Wallasey | County Borough | 1888[4] | 1974[10] | Wirral MetB[11] | ||
Wallasey | Urban District | 1894[2] | 1910[2] | Wallasey MunB | ||
Wilmslow | Urban District | 1974[2] | Macclesfield Dist[2] | |||
Winsford | Urban District | 1974[2] | Vale Royal Dist[2] | |||
Wirral | Rural District | 1894[2] | 1933[2] | |||
Wirral | Urban District | 1974[10] | Wirral MetB[11] | |||
Yeardsley cum Whaley | Urban District | 1894[2] | 1936[2] | Whaley Bridge UD Disley RD[37] |
Abbreviation | Meaning |
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NUA | Non-Unitary Authority |
UA | Unitary Authority |
Name | Type | Creation Date | Predecessor(s) |
Gains (G) and Losses (L) | Abolition or End Date | Successor(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chester | NUA | 1974[38] | none | 1 April 2009 | Cheshire West and Chester (UA) | |
Congleton | NUA | 1974[38] | none | 1 April 2009 | Cheshire East (UA) | |
Crewe and Nantwich | NUA | 1974[38] | none | 1 April 2009 | Cheshire East (UA) | |
Ellesmere Port | NUA | 1974[38] | none | 21 June 1976[39] | Ellesmere Port and Neston (UA)[39] | |
Ellesmere Port and Neston | NUA | 21June 1976[39] | Ellesmere Port (NUA)[39] | none | 1 April 2009 | Cheshire West and Chester (UA) |
Halton | NUA | 1974[38] | none | 1998[40] | Halton (UA)[40] | |
Halton | UA | 1998[40] | Halton (NUA)[40] | none | (continues) | (continues) |
Macclesfield | NUA | 1974[38] | none | 1 April 2009 | Cheshire East (UA) | |
Vale Royal | NUA | 1974[38] | none | 1 April 2009 | Cheshire West and Chester (UA) | |
Warrington | NUA | 1974[38] | none | 1998[41] | Warrington (UA)[41] | |
Warrington | UA | 1998[41] | Warrington (NUA)[41] | none | (continues) | (continues) |