Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844

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The Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. 61) was an act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which eliminated many outliers or exclaves of counties in England and Wales for civil purposes. The whole Act was repealed by the Local Government Act 1972.

The areas involved had already been reorganised for some purposes: The Reform Act 1832 had abolished the outliers for parliamentary constituencies, the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1839 allowed Justices of the Peace to act for exclaves surrounded by their county, and constabularies established under County Police Act 1839 had jurisdiction over detached parts of other counties.

The text of the act read:

From the twentieth day of October Eighteen Hundred and Forty Four every part of every county in England and Wales which is detached from the main body of the county shall be considered for all purposes as forming part of that county of which it is considered part for the purposes of the election of members to serve as Knights of the Shire

The Act went on to state that the parts transferred would be incorporated in an existing "hundred, wapentake, rape, lathe or other like divisions unless the Justices of the County declare it to be a new hundred or division."

The Act itself did not list the areas transferred, these had already been detailed in the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. IV, c. 64).

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The Act affected twenty-seven counties. The largest changes were to County Durham, which lost large areas to Northumberland, as well as a single parish to Yorkshire. By no means all detached areas were dealt with: seven counties still had exclaves. Many of these anomalies were dealt with in the 1890s following the passing of the Local Government Act 1894. Large detached blocks of Warwickshire and Worcestershire interspersed with Gloucestershire remained until 1931, while Flintshire retained a large exclave until its abolition in 1974.

[edit] Bedfordshire

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[edit] Berkshire

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[edit] Buckinghamshire

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  • The hamlet of Studeley (in the parish of Beckley) in Buckinghamshire transferred to Oxfordshire
  • The parish of Caversfield transferred to Oxfordshire
  • The chapelry of Ackhampstead (in the parish of Lewknor) transferred to Oxfordshire
  • The part of the extra-parochial place of Luffield Abbey in Buckinghamshire transferred to Northamptonshire
  • The part of the chapelry of Stratton Audley (in the parish of Bicester) in Buckinghamshire transferred to Oxfordshire

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[edit] Cornwall

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  • The part of the parish of Bridgerule in Cornwall transferred to Devon
  • The part of the parish of North Petherwin in Cornwall transferred to Devon
  • The part of the parish of Werrington in Cornwall transferred to Devon

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  • The part of the parish of St John in Devon
  • The part of the parish of Maker in Devon
  • The part of the parish of North Tamerton in Devon

[edit] Denbighshire

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  • The township of Carreghova (in the parish of Llanmynech) transferred to Montgomeryshire

[edit] Derbyshire

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  • Part of the township of Foston and Scropton (in the parish of Scropton) transferred to Staffordshire

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[edit] Devon

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  • The part of the parish of Maker in Devon transferred to Cornwall
  • The part of the parish of St John in Devon transferred to Cornwall
  • The part of the parish of North Tamerton in Devon transferred to Cornwall
  • The parish of Thorncombe transferred to Dorset

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[edit] Dorset

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  • The part of the parish of Axminster in Dorset transferred to Devon
  • The parish of Stockland (including the hamlet of Dalwood) transferred to Devon

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[edit] County Durham

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[edit] Gloucestershire

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[edit] Hampshire

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  • The tithings of North Ambersham and South Ambersham (both in the parish of Steep) transferred to Sussex
  • The part of the parish of Rogate in Hampshire transferred to Sussex

[edit] Herefordshire

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  • Part of the township of Litton and Cascob (in the parishes of Cascob and Presteigne) transferred to Radnorshire
  • The hamlet of Bwlch Trewyn (in the parish of Cwmyoy) transferred to Monmouthshire
  • The chapelry of Farlow (in the parish of Stottesden) transferred to Shropshire
  • The chapelry of Rochford (in the parish of Tenbury) transferred to Worcestershire

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[edit] Huntingdonshire

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[edit] Monmouthshire

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  • The hamlet of Bwlch Trewyn (in the parish of Cwmyoy) in Herefordshire

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[edit] Northamptonshire

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[edit] Northumberland

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[edit] Somerset

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[edit] Staffordshire

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  • Part of the township of Foston and Scropton (in the parish of Scropton) in Derbyshire

[edit] Sussex

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  • The tithings of North Ambersham and South Ambersham (both in the parish of Steep) in Hampshire
  • The part of the parish of Rogate in Hampshire

[edit] Warwickshire

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[edit] Wiltshire

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[edit] Worcestershire

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[edit] Yorkshire, North Riding

[edit] Sources

  • The Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844
  • FA Youngs, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, 2 vols, London, 1979 and 1991