Talk:Local Government Act 1972/bill
I have a map dated "Local Government Bill: Government Proposals for New Counties in England with the Proposed Names" 4th November 1971.
this is just a quick infodump. it is very detailed, showing rural districts and suchforth so i should be able to conduct quite a good analysis of the differences between this and the LGA1972.
- Avon
- Bedfordshire
- no change
- Berkshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- includes Haverhill, Newmarket and part of Mildenhall Rural District and part of Clare Rural District
- Cheshire
- Cornwall
- Cumbria
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Dorset
- Durham
- East Sussex
- Essex
- excludes Colchester (to Suffolk)
- Gloucestershire
- Greater Manchester † - 7 boroughs
- Hampshire
- includes Isle of Wight
- Hertfordshire
- Humberside
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Lincolnshire
- Malvernshire
- Merseyside † - 4 boroughs
- Norfolk
- did not include any part of Lothingland Rural District
- Northamptonshire
- Northumberland
- North Yorkshire
- Oxfordshire
- Salop
- Somerset
- South Yorkshire † - 4 boroughs
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- includes Colchester, Lexden and Winstree Rural District, Clacton, Frinton and Walton, [[Brightlighton], West Mersea, Wivenhoe, Tendring Rural District, Harwick
- excludes Haverhill and Newmarket (to Cambridgeshire)
- Surrey
- Teesside
- includes Whitby and Whitby Rural District
- Tyneside †
- Warwickshire
- West Midlands †
- a: Wolverhampton
- b: Walsall
- c: Dudley
- d: Sandwell
- e: Birmingham
- f: Solihull
- g: Coventry
- West Sussex
- West Yorkshire †
- a: Bradford
- b: Leeds
- c: Calderdale
- d: Kirklees
- e: Wakefield
- Wiltshire
† to be a 'metropolitan county'