County Borough of Warrington

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For the modern day town and borough which this district comprised, see Warrington.

County Borough of Warrington
Geography
Status	County borough
History
Created	1889
Abolished	1974
Succeeded by	Borough of Warrington

The County Borough of Warrington was, from 1889 to 1974, a local government district centred on Warrington in the northwest of England.^[1] It was alternatively known as Warrington County Borough and the County of Warrington.

The district was created by the Local Government Act 1888, based upon the earlier Municipal Borough of Warrington, and contained the urbanised areas of Warrington, with Warrington Rural District lying directly to the north appropriately containing rural areas.

As part of the terms of any county borough in England, it was decided that to let the then Lancashire County Council have authority over Warrington would be impractical due to its large size, population and industry, and so the district was independent from the administrative county of Lancashire it would otherwise have been part of.

The County Borough of Warrington was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 and its territory transferred to Cheshire to form part of the Borough of Warrington.

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