List of English districts

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This is a list of the metropolitan and non-metropolitan districts of England, also including London boroughs. Districts are one type of English administrative division.

See also: List of rural and urban districts in England for a list of the pre-1974 districts.

Contents 1 List A-D 2 List E-K 3 List L-R 4 List S-Z 5 Former districts 6 New districts 7 Renamings 8 External links

[edit] List A-D

Name	Website	Population (2004 est.)		Type	Ceremonial County
Adur	website	59,300		non-metropolitan district	West Sussex
Allerdale	website	95,300		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Cumbria
Alnwick	website	31,900		non-metropolitan district	Northumberland
Amber Valley	website	118,200		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Derbyshire
Arun	website	144,300		non-metropolitan district	West Sussex
Ashfield	website	113,400		non-metropolitan district	Nottinghamshire
Ashford	website	107,700		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Kent
Aylesbury Vale	website	167,200		non-metropolitan district	Buckinghamshire
Babergh	website	84,800		non-metropolitan district	Suffolk
Barking and Dagenham	website	164,600		London borough	Greater London
Barnet	website	326,700		London borough	Greater London
Barnsley	website	221,000		Metropolitan borough	South Yorkshire
Barrow-in-Furness	website	70,500		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Cumbria
Basildon	website	166,500		non-metropolitan district	Essex
Basingstoke and Deane	website	155,400		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Hampshire
Bassetlaw	website	110,300		non-metropolitan district	Nottinghamshire
Bath and North East Somerset	website	172,200		Unitary, District	Somerset
Bedford	website	151,000		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Bedfordshire
Berwick-upon-Tweed	website	26,300		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Northumberland
Bexley	website	219,500		London borough	Greater London
Birmingham	website	992,400		Metropolitan borough, City (1889)	West Midlands
Blaby	website	91,600		non-metropolitan district	Leicestershire
Blackburn with Darwen	website	140,200		Unitary, Borough	Lancashire
Blackpool	website	142,700		Unitary, Borough	Lancashire
Blyth Valley	website	81,400		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Northumberland
Bolsover	website	73,300		non-metropolitan district	Derbyshire
Bolton	website	264,800		Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
Boston	website	57,900		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Lincolnshire
Bournemouth	website	163,500		Unitary, Borough	Dorset
Bracknell Forest	website	110,300		Unitary, Borough	Berkshire
Bradford	website	481,100		Metropolitan borough, City (1897)	West Yorkshire
Braintree	website	136,200		non-metropolitan district	Essex
Breckland	website	125,400		non-metropolitan district	Norfolk
Brent	website	267,700		London borough	Greater London
Brentwood	website	70,200		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Essex
Bridgnorth	website	52,900		non-metropolitan district	Shropshire
Brighton & Hove	website	251,900		Unitary, City (2000)	East Sussex
Bristol	website	393,900		Unitary, City (1542)	Bristol
Broadland	website	120,500		non-metropolitan district	Norfolk
Bromley	website	299,100		London borough	Greater London
Bromsgrove	website	90,700		non-metropolitan district	Worcestershire
Broxbourne	website	86,100		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Hertfordshire
Broxtowe	website	108,700		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Nottinghamshire
Burnley	website	88,100		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Lancashire
Bury	website	182,100		Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
Calderdale	website	194,300		Metropolitan borough	West Yorkshire
Cambridge	website	118,500		City (1951)	Cambridgeshire
Camden	website	217,100		London borough	Greater London
Cannock Chase	website	92,800		non-metropolitan district	Staffordshire
Canterbury	website	141,600		City	Kent
Caradon	website	81,900		non-metropolitan district	Cornwall
Carlisle	website	103,500		City	Cumbria
Carrick	website	90,100		non-metropolitan district	Cornwall
Castle Morpeth	website	49,800		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Northumberland
Castle Point	website	86,800		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Essex
Charnwood	website	157,500		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Leicestershire
Chelmsford	website	159,800		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Essex
Cheltenham	website	110,900		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Gloucestershire
Cherwell	website	133,500		non-metropolitan district	Oxfordshire
Chester	website	119,000		City	Cheshire
Chesterfield	website	99,700		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Derbyshire
Chester-le-Street	website	53,200		non-metropolitan district	Durham
Chichester	website	108,800		non-metropolitan district	West Sussex
Chiltern	website	89,100		non-metropolitan district	Buckinghamshire
Chorley	website	103,000		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Lancashire
Christchurch	website	45,100		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Dorset
Colchester	website	160,700		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Essex
Congleton	website	91,800		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Cheshire
Copeland	website	70,600		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Cumbria
Corby	website	53,200		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Northamptonshire
Cotswold	website	82,700		non-metropolitan district	Gloucestershire
Coventry	website	304,200		Metropolitan borough, City (1345)	West Midlands
Craven	website	54,100		non-metropolitan district	North Yorkshire
Crawley	website	98,700		non-metropolitan district, Borough	West Sussex
Crewe and Nantwich	website	113,400		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Cheshire
Croydon	website	340,200		London borough	Greater London
Dacorum	website	138,000		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Hertfordshire
Darlington	website	98,600		Unitary, Borough	Durham
Dartford	website	86,600		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Kent
Daventry	website	75,400		non-metropolitan district	Northamptonshire
Derby	website	233,700		Unitary, City (1977)	Derbyshire
Derbyshire Dales	website	69,900		non-metropolitan district	Derbyshire
Derwentside	website	86,000		non-metropolitan district	Durham
Doncaster	website	289,000		Metropolitan borough	South Yorkshire
Dover	website	106,100		non-metropolitan district	Kent
Dudley	website	304,500		Metropolitan borough	West Midlands
Durham	website	90,700		City	Durham

[edit] List E-K

Name	Website	Population (2004 est.)		Type	Ceremonial County
Ealing	website	303,200		London borough	Greater London
Easington	website	92,900		non-metropolitan district	Durham
East Cambridgeshire	website	76,900		non-metropolitan district	Cambridgeshire
East Devon	website	128,800		non-metropolitan district	Devon
East Dorset	website	85,400		non-metropolitan district	Dorset
East Hampshire	website	110,700		non-metropolitan district	Hampshire
East Hertfordshire	website	131,000		non-metropolitan district	Hertfordshire
East Lindsey	website	136,200		non-metropolitan district	Lincolnshire
East Northamptonshire	website	80,700		non-metropolitan district	Northamptonshire
East Riding of Yorkshire	website	324,800		Unitary, District	East Riding of Yorkshire
East Staffordshire	website	106,100		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Staffordshire
Eastbourne	website	92,100		non-metropolitan district, Borough	East Sussex
Eastleigh	website	116,000		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Hampshire
Eden	website	52,000		non-metropolitan district	Cumbria
Ellesmere Port and Neston	website	80,900		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Cheshire
Elmbridge	website	127,500		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Surrey
Enfield	website	280,000		London borough	Greater London
Epping Forest (district)	website	121,300		non-metropolitan district	Essex
Epsom and Ewell	website	68,000		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Surrey
Erewash	website	110,000		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Derbyshire
Exeter	website	115,200		City	Devon
Fareham	website	108,700		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Hampshire
Fenland	website	86,700		non-metropolitan district	Cambridgeshire
Forest Heath	website	60,100		non-metropolitan district	Suffolk
Forest of Dean	website	80,700		non-metropolitan district	Gloucestershire
Fylde	website	75,800		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Lancashire
Gateshead	website	191,300		Metropolitan borough	Tyne and Wear
Gedling	website	111,300		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Nottinghamshire
Gloucester	website	110,800		City	Gloucestershire
Gosport	website	77,000		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Hampshire
Gravesham	website	94,900		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Kent
Great Yarmouth	website	92,400		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Norfolk
Greenwich	website	225,700		London borough	Greater London
Guildford	website	130,700		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Surrey
Hackney	website	207,000		London borough	Greater London
Halton	website	118,900		Unitary, Borough	Cheshire
Hambleton	website	85,100		non-metropolitan district	North Yorkshire
Hammersmith and Fulham	website	176,800		London borough	Greater London
Harborough	website	79,900		non-metropolitan district	Leicestershire
Haringey	website	224,300		London borough	Greater London
Harlow	website	77,500		non-metropolitan district	Essex
Harrogate	website	154,000		non-metropolitan district, Borough	North Yorkshire
Harrow	website	211,900		London borough	Greater London
Hart	website	86,700		non-metropolitan district	Hampshire
Hartlepool	website	90,100		Unitary, Borough	Durham
Hastings	website	84,600		non-metropolitan district, Borough	East Sussex
Havant	website	115,700		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Hampshire
Havering	website	225,000		London borough	Greater London
Herefordshire	website	177,800		Unitary, District	Herefordshire
Hertsmere	website	93,300		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Hertfordshire
High Peak	website	90,600		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Derbyshire
Hillingdon	website	248,700		London borough	Greater London
Hinckley and Bosworth	website	102,200		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Leicestershire
Horsham	website	124,800		non-metropolitan district	West Sussex
Hounslow	website	212,300		London borough	Greater London
Hull	website	248,500		Unitary, City	East Riding of Yorkshire
Huntingdonshire	website	161,700		non-metropolitan district	Cambridgeshire
Hyndburn	website	81,600		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Lancashire
Ipswich	website	117,400		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Suffolk
Isle of Wight	website	138,400		Unitary, County	Isle of Wight
Isles of Scilly	website	2,200		Unitary	Cornwall
Islington	website	179,900		London borough	Greater London
Kennet	website	76,700		non-metropolitan district	Wiltshire
Kensington and Chelsea	website	184,100		London borough, Royal Borough	Greater London
Kerrier	website	95,600		non-metropolitan district	Cornwall
Kettering	website	85,300		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Northamptonshire
King's Lynn and West Norfolk	website	139,100		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Norfolk
Kingston upon Thames	website	151,800		London borough, Royal Borough	Greater London
Kirklees	website	393,200		Metropolitan borough	West Yorkshire
Knowsley	website	149,800		Metropolitan borough	Merseyside

[edit] List L-R

Name	Website	Population (2004 est.)		Type	Ceremonial County
Lambeth	website	268,100		London borough	Greater London
Lancaster	website	136,700		City (1937)	Lancashire
Leeds	website	719,600		Metropolitan borough, City (1893)	West Yorkshire
Leicester	website	285,100		Unitary, City (1919)	Leicestershire
Lewes	website	93,300		non-metropolitan district	East Sussex
Lewisham	website	247,000		London borough	Greater London
Lichfield	website	94,600		non-metropolitan district	Staffordshire
Lincoln	website	86,500		City	Lincolnshire
Liverpool	website	444,500		Metropolitan borough, City (1880)	Merseyside
City of London	website	8,600		Unitary, City	City of London
Luton	website	184,000		Unitary, Borough	Bedfordshire
Macclesfield	website	150,400		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Cheshire
Maidstone	website	142,500		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Kent
Maldon	website	60,300		non-metropolitan district	Essex
Malvern Hills	website	74,400		non-metropolitan district	Worcestershire
Manchester	website	437,000		Metropolitan borough, City (1853)	Greater Manchester
Mansfield	website	98,700		non-metropolitan district	Nottinghamshire
Medway	website	251,100		Unitary, Borough	Kent
Melton	website	48,300		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Leicestershire
Mendip	website	106,700		non-metropolitan district	Somerset
Merton	website	192,300		London borough	Greater London
Mid Bedfordshire	website	127,000		non-metropolitan district	Bedfordshire
Mid Devon	website	72,400		non-metropolitan district	Devon
Middlesbrough	website	137,900		Unitary, Borough	North Yorkshire
Mid Suffolk	website	88,600		non-metropolitan district	Suffolk
Mid Sussex	website	128,100		non-metropolitan district	West Sussex
Milton Keynes	website	216,700		Unitary, Borough	Buckinghamshire
Mole Valley	website	80,900		non-metropolitan district	Surrey
Newark and Sherwood	website	110,100		non-metropolitan district	Nottinghamshire
Newcastle-under-Lyme	website	123,000		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Staffordshire
Newcastle upon Tyne	website	269,500		Metropolitan borough, City (1882)	Tyne and Wear
New Forest	website	171,500		non-metropolitan district	Hampshire
Newham	website	247,700		London borough	Greater London
Northampton	website	194,800		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Northamptonshire
North Cornwall	website	83,600		non-metropolitan district	Cornwall
North Devon	website	89,900		non-metropolitan district	Devon
North Dorset	website	64,700		non-metropolitan district	Dorset
North East Derbyshire	website	97,400		non-metropolitan district	Derbyshire
North East Lincolnshire	website	157,700		Unitary, Borough	Lincolnshire
North Hertfordshire	website	119,900		non-metropolitan district	Hertfordshire
North Kesteven	website	100,500		non-metropolitan district	Lincolnshire
North Lincolnshire	website	156,500		Unitary, Borough	Lincolnshire
North Norfolk	website	99,800		non-metropolitan district	Norfolk
North Shropshire	website	58,700		non-metropolitan district	Shropshire
North Somerset	website	193,000		Unitary, District	Somerset
North Tyneside	website	190,700		Metropolitan borough	Tyne and Wear
North Warwickshire	website	62,000		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Warwickshire
North West Leicestershire	website	88,300		non-metropolitan district	Leicestershire
North Wiltshire	website	128,300		non-metropolitan district	Wiltshire
Norwich	website	125,000		City (1195)	Norfolk
Nottingham	website	275,100		Unitary, City (1897)	Nottinghamshire
Nuneaton and Bedworth	website	120,300		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Warwickshire
Oadby and Wigston	website	56,100		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Leicestershire
Oldham	website	218,300		Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
Oswestry	website	38,600		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Shropshire
Oxford	website	145,100		City (1542)	Oxfordshire
Pendle	website	89,300		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Lancashire
Penwith	website	64,200		non-metropolitan district	Cornwall
Peterborough	website	159,100		Unitary, City (1541)	Cambridgeshire
Plymouth	website	244,400		Unitary, City (1928)	Devon
Poole	website	137,000		Unitary, Borough	Dorset
Portsmouth	website	188,500		Unitary, City (1926)	Hampshire
Preston	website	131,000		City (2002)	Lancashire
Purbeck	website	45,100		non-metropolitan district	Dorset
Reading	website	144,000		Unitary, Borough	Berkshire
Redbridge	website	247,300		London borough	Greater London
Redcar and Cleveland	website	139,100		Unitary, Borough	North Yorkshire
Redditch	website	79,300		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Worcestershire
Reigate and Banstead	website	126,900		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Surrey
Restormel	website	99,900		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Cornwall
Ribble Valley	website	56,600		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Lancashire
Richmondshire	website	50,700		non-metropolitan district	North Yorkshire
Richmond upon Thames	website	182,700		London borough	Greater London
Rochdale	website	206,500		Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
Rochford	website	79,100		non-metropolitan district	Essex
Rossendale	website	65,900		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Lancashire
Rother	website	85,800		non-metropolitan district	East Sussex
Rotherham	website	252,300		Metropolitan borough	South Yorkshire
Rugby	website	90,200		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Warwickshire
Runnymede	website	78,500		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Surrey
Rushcliffe	website	107,100		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Nottinghamshire
Rushmoor	website	88,800		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Hampshire
Rutland	website	36,500		Unitary, District	Rutland
Ryedale	website	51,700		non-metropolitan district	North Yorkshire

[edit] List S-Z

Name	Website	Population (2004 est.)		Type	Ceremonial County
St Albans	website	132,200		City (1877)	Hertfordshire
St Edmundsbury	website	100,500		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Suffolk
St Helens	website	176,700		Metropolitan borough	Merseyside
Salford	website	216,400		Metropolitan borough, City (1926)	Greater Manchester
Salisbury	website	116,100		non-metropolitan district	Wiltshire
Sandwell	website	285,800		Metropolitan borough	West Midlands
Scarborough	website	107,100		non-metropolitan district, Borough	North Yorkshire
Sedgefield	website	87,800		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Durham
Sedgemoor	website	109,100		non-metropolitan district	Somerset
Sefton	website	281,800		Metropolitan borough	Merseyside
Selby	website	77,200		non-metropolitan district	North Yorkshire
Sevenoaks	website	110,300		non-metropolitan district	Kent
Sheffield	website	516,100		Metropolitan borough, City (1893)	South Yorkshire
Shepway	website	99,000		non-metropolitan district	Kent
Shrewsbury and Atcham	website	95,800		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Shropshire
Slough	website	117,600		Unitary, Borough	Berkshire
Solihull	website	200,400		Metropolitan borough	West Midlands
Southampton	website	221,200		Unitary, City (1964)	Hampshire
South Bedfordshire	website	114,200		non-metropolitan district	Bedfordshire
South Bucks	website	62,700		non-metropolitan district	Buckinghamshire
South Cambridgeshire	website	135,000		non-metropolitan district	Cambridgeshire
South Derbyshire	website	86,500		non-metropolitan district	Derbyshire
Southend-on-Sea	website	159,600		Unitary, Borough	Essex
South Gloucestershire	website	247,500		Unitary, District	Gloucestershire
South Hams	website	82,400		non-metropolitan district	Devon
South Holland	website	80,700		non-metropolitan district	Lincolnshire
South Kesteven	website	127,700		non-metropolitan district	Lincolnshire
South Lakeland	website	102,900		non-metropolitan district	Cumbria
South Norfolk	website	114,300		non-metropolitan district	Norfolk
South Northamptonshire	website	84,100		non-metropolitan district	Northamptonshire
South Oxfordshire	website	127,900		non-metropolitan district	Oxfordshire
South Ribble	website	105,500		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Lancashire
South Shropshire	website	42,000		non-metropolitan district	Shropshire
South Somerset	website	155,100		non-metropolitan district	Somerset
South Staffordshire	website	105,300		non-metropolitan district	Staffordshire
South Tyneside	website	151,500		Metropolitan borough	Tyne and Wear
Southwark	website	254,700		London borough	Greater London
Spelthorne	website	88,400		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Surrey
Stafford	website	122,500		non-metropolitan district	Staffordshire
Staffordshire Moorlands	website	94,300		non-metropolitan district	Staffordshire
Stevenage	website	79,000		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Hertfordshire
Stockport	website	282,200		Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
Stockton-on-Tees	website	186,200		Unitary, Borough	Durham and North Yorkshire
Stoke-on-Trent	website	238,000		Unitary, City (1925)	Staffordshire
Stratford-on-Avon	website	116,700		non-metropolitan district	Warwickshire
Stroud	website	109,500		non-metropolitan district	Gloucestershire
Suffolk Coastal	website	118,100		non-metropolitan district	Suffolk
Sunderland	website	282,700		Metropolitan borough, City (1992)	Tyne and Wear
Surrey Heath	website	81,100		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Surrey
Sutton	website	177,600		London borough	Greater London
Swale	website	126,200		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Kent
Swindon	website	182,200		Unitary, Borough	Wiltshire
Tameside	website	213,700		Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
Tamworth	website	73,900		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Staffordshire
Tandridge	website	79,300		non-metropolitan district	Surrey
Taunton Deane	website	106,000		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Somerset
Teesdale	website	24,800		non-metropolitan district	Durham
Teignbridge	website	123,900		non-metropolitan district	Devon
Telford and Wrekin	website	161,000		Unitary, Borough	Shropshire
Tendring	website	141,500		non-metropolitan district	Essex
Test Valley	website	111,800		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Hampshire
Tewkesbury	website	78,200		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Gloucestershire
Thanet	website	127,900		non-metropolitan district	Kent
Three Rivers	website	84,000		non-metropolitan district	Hertfordshire
Thurrock	website	145,700		Unitary, Borough	Essex
Tonbridge and Malling	website	110,900		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Kent
Torbay	website	132,500		Unitary, Borough	Devon
Torridge	website	61,900		non-metropolitan district	Devon
Tower Hamlets	website	209,300		London borough	Greater London
Trafford	website	212,700		Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
Tunbridge Wells	website	105,600		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Kent
Tynedale	website	59,800		non-metropolitan district	Northumberland
Uttlesford	website	70,400		non-metropolitan district	Essex
Vale of White Horse	website	116,200		non-metropolitan district	Oxfordshire
Vale Royal	website	124,500		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Cheshire
Wakefield	website	319,800		Metropolitan borough, City (1888)	West Yorkshire
Walsall	website	252,800		Metropolitan borough	West Midlands
Waltham Forest	website	221,800		London borough	Greater London
Wandsworth	website	276,500		London borough	Greater London
Wansbeck	website	61,600		non-metropolitan district	Northumberland
Warrington	website	193,700		Unitary, Borough	Cheshire
Warwick	website	136,300		non-metropolitan district	Warwickshire
Watford	website	79,300		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Hertfordshire
Waveney	website	114,300		non-metropolitan district	Suffolk
Waverley	website	116,300		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Surrey
Wealden	website	140,900		non-metropolitan district	East Sussex
Wear Valley	website	61,600		non-metropolitan district	Durham
Wellingborough	website	73,300		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Northamptonshire
Welwyn Hatfield	website	98,500		non-metropolitan district, Borough (2006)	Hertfordshire
West Berkshire	website	144,900		Unitary, District	Berkshire
West Devon	website	50,200		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Devon
West Dorset	website	95,300		non-metropolitan district	Dorset
West Lancashire	website	109,200		non-metropolitan district	Lancashire
West Lindsey	website	84,000		non-metropolitan district	Lincolnshire
Westminster	website	230,000		London borough, City (1540)	Greater London
West Oxfordshire	website	97,000		non-metropolitan district	Oxfordshire
West Somerset	website	35,600		non-metropolitan district	Somerset
West Wiltshire	website	123,500		non-metropolitan district	Wiltshire
Weymouth and Portland	website	64,400		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Dorset
Wigan	website	305,400		Metropolitan borough	Greater Manchester
Winchester	website	111,000		City	Hampshire
Windsor and Maidenhead	website	136,700		Unitary, Royal Borough	Berkshire
Wirral	website	313,100		Metropolitan borough	Merseyside
Woking	website	89,600		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Surrey
Wokingham	website	152,200		Unitary, District	Berkshire
Wolverhampton	website	239,100		Metropolitan borough, City (2000)	West Midlands
Worcester	website	93,600		City (1189)	Worcestershire
Worthing	website	98,000		non-metropolitan district, Borough	West Sussex
Wychavon	website	115,900		non-metropolitan district	Worcestershire
Wycombe	website	159,600		non-metropolitan district	Buckinghamshire
Wyre	website	109,300		non-metropolitan district, Borough	Lancashire
Wyre Forest	website	98,100		non-metropolitan district	Worcestershire
York	website	184,900		Unitary, City	North Yorkshire

[edit] Former districts

The current pattern of districts was introduced in 1974 throughout England and Wales, replacing an older system of municipal boroughs, urban districts, rural districts and county boroughs.

In England, several changes have taken place, but only within the framework created then. However in Wales the Welsh districts have been replaced entirely with new unitary counties and county boroughs of Wales.

Former English districts are as follows

District	Status	Date abolished	Former county	Successor
Bath	City	April 1, 1996	Avon	Bath and North East Somerset
Beverley	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1996	Humberside	East Riding of Yorkshire
Boothferry	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1996	Humberside	East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire
Brighton	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1997	East Sussex	Brighton and Hove
Cleethorpes	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1996	Humberside	North East Lincolnshire
East Yorkshire	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1996	Humberside	East Riding of Yorkshire
Gillingham	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1998	Kent	Medway
Glanford	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1996	Humberside	North Lincolnshire
Great Grimsby	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1996	Humberside	North East Lincolnshire
Hereford	City	April 1, 1998	Hereford and Worcester	Herefordshire
Holderness	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1996	Humberside	East Riding of Yorkshire
Hove	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1997	East Sussex	Brighton and Hove
Kingswood	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1996	Avon	South Gloucestershire
Leominster	non-metropolitan district	April 1, 1998	Hereford and Worcester	Herefordshire (part to Malvern Hills)
Malvern Hills	non-metropolitan district	April 1, 1998	Hereford and Worcester	Herefordshire and Malvern Hills
Medina	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1995	Isle of Wight	Isle of Wight
Northavon	non-metropolitan district	April 1, 1996	Avon	South Gloucestershire
Rochester-upon-Medway	City	April 1, 1998	Kent	Medway
Scunthorpe	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1996	Humberside	North Lincolnshire
South Herefordshire	non-metropolitan district	April 1, 1998	Hereford and Worcester	Herefordshire
South Wight	non-metropolitan district, Borough	April 1, 1995	Isle of Wight	Isle of Wight
Wansdyke	non-metropolitan district	April 1, 1996	Avon	Bath and North East Somerset

In most cases these districts were merged to form unitary authorities, which are indicated in the right.

The exceptions were Malvern Hills and Leominster, which were both split between the new district of Herefordshire and a new district of Malvern Hills.

See List of rural and urban districts of England for a list of the districts as they stood immediately prior to April 1, 1974.

[edit] New districts

Districts created post-1974 are

District	Date created	Predecessor(s)
Bath and North East Somerset	April 1, 1996	Bath and Wansdyke
Brighton and Hove	April 1, 1997	Brighton and Hove
East Riding of Yorkshire	April 1, 1996	Boothferry, Beverley, East Yorkshire, Holderness
Herefordshire	April 1, 1998	Hereford, Malvern Hills (part), Leominster (part) South Herefordshire
Isle of Wight	April 1, 1995	Medina, South Wight
Malvern Hills	April 1, 1998	Malvern Hills (part) and Leominster (part)
Medway	April 1, 1998	Rochester and Gillingham
North Lincolnshire	April 1, 1996	Boothferry, Glanford, Scunthorpe
North East Lincolnshire	April 1, 1996	Cleethorpes, Great Grimsby
South Gloucestershire	April 1, 1996	Kingswood, Northavon

[edit] Renamings

Under section 74 of the Local Government Act 1972, the council of a district, county or London borough (or county borough in Wales) may change its name, providing the resolution to do so gains two-thirds of the votes at a special meeting. Until 1st April 1978, the council had to have the permission of the Secretary of State, but since that date they may do so unilaterally. At least one district name change was vetoed : the shadow authority for North Wolds wished to become "Bridlington and Yorkshire Wolds" prior to 1974 at the same time as other name changes were allowed.

Several English districts have done this, whilst others have been renamed under the 1990s UK local government reform. A few districts have even changed names twice.

Original name	New name	Date
Basingstoke	Basingstoke and Deane	January 20, 1978
Beaconsfield	South Bucks	April 1, 1980
Barking	Barking and Dagenham	January 1, 1980
Bedford	North Bedfordshire	October 15, 1975
	Bedford	1992
Beverley	East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley	1981
Blackburn	Blackburn with Darwen	May 2, 1997 (before unitary)
Bosworth	Hinckley and Bosworth	November 20, 1973†
Bracknell	Bracknell Forest	May 1988
Crewe	Crewe and Nantwich	January 17, 1974†
Ellesmere Port	Ellesmere Port and Neston	June 21, 1976
Grimsby	Great Grimsby	January 1, 1979
Hammersmith	Hammersmith and Fulham	January 1, 1979
Hartley Wintney	Hart	January 17, 1974†
Herefordshire	County of Herefordshire	June 20, 1997
Huntingdon	Huntingdonshire	October 1, 1984
Langbaurgh	Langbaurgh-on-Tees	January 1, 1988
	Redcar and Cleveland	April 1, 1996 (with unitary)
Medway	Rochester upon Medway	December 3, 1979
Medway Towns	Medway	April 1, 1998 (with unitary)
Newark	Newark and Sherwood	April 1, 1995
Newbury	West Berkshire	April 1, 1998 (with unitary)
North Wolds	East Yorkshire	February 1, 1981
Nuneaton	Nuneaton and Bedworth	October 1, 1980
Pastonacres	North Norfolk	September 20, 1973†
Petersfield	East Hampshire	October 8, 1973†
Poole	Borough and County of the Town of Poole	April 1, 1997 (with unitary)
Rutland	Rutland County Council	April 1, 1997 (with unitary)
Shrewsbury	Shrewsbury and Atcham	June 12, 1974
Thamesdown	Swindon	effective April 1, 1997 (soon before unitary) [1]
Tiverton	Mid Devon	February 6, 1978
Wallingford	South Oxfordshire	September 20, 1973†
West Derbyshire	Derbyshire Dales	1988
West Norfolk	King's Lynn and West Norfolk	March 14, 1981
Wimborne	East Dorset	1988
Woodspring	North Somerset	April 1, 1996 (with unitary)
Wrekin	The Wrekin	February 7, 1974†
	Telford and Wrekin	April 1, 1998 (with unitary)
Yeovil	South Somerset	1985

† The resolutions to change the name of the district were made by the "shadow" councils elected on June 7, 1973.

Additionally, one English county has been renamed. Shropshire was originally formally known as 'Salop'. Its name was changed effective April 1, 1980.

[edit] External links

• The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972

Structure of English administrative divisions (since 1995)

Region level:	Region	Region	Region	Region
County level:	Metropolitan county	Shire county	Unitary authority	Greater London
District level:	Metropolitan district	Shire district	n/a	London borough
Parish level:	(Civil parish)	(Civil parish)	(Civil parish)	n/a