Talk:Local Government Act 1972/table

Column 1 notes the new county created in 1974. Column 2 notes the geographic county or subdivision thereof prior to 1974. Column 3 notes the county boroughs from that geographic county which formed part of the new county. Column 4 notes any other parts of that geographic county which formed part of the new county.

Metropolitan counties

Metropolitan county	Former geographic county or subdivision	County boroughs	Other parts
Greater Manchester	Cheshire	Stockport	urban north-east Cheshire
	Lancashire	Bury, Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Wigan	urban south-east Lancashire
	Yorkshire, West Riding	none	Saddleworth urban district
Merseyside	Cheshire	Birkenhead, Wallasey	most of Wirral peninsula
	Lancashire	Bootle, Liverpool, St Helens, Southport	urban south-west Lancashire
South Yorkshire	Yorkshire, West Riding	Barnsley, Doncaster, Sheffield, Rotherham	southern West Riding
	Nottinghamshire	none	Finningley
Tyne and Wear	Durham	Gateshead, South Shields, Sunderland	urban north-east Durham
	Northumberland	Tynemouth, Newcastle upon Tyne	urban south-east Northumberland
West Midlands	Staffordshire	Dudley, Walsall, West Bromwich, Wolverhampton	Aldridge-Brownhills
	Warwickshire	Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull	Sutton Coldfield, Meriden Gap
	Worcestershire	Warley	Halesowen and Stourbridge
West Yorkshire	Yorkshire, West Riding	Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield	western West Riding of Yorkshire

Non-metropolitan counties

Non-metropolitan county	Former geographic county or subdivision	County boroughs	Other parts
Avon	Gloucestershire	Bristol	southern part
	Somerset	Bath	northern part (including Weston-super-Mare)
Bedfordshire	Bedfordshire	Luton	all
Berkshire	Berkshire	Reading	all except part around Abingdon in Oxfordshire
	Buckinghamshire	none	southern tip (including Slough)
Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire	none	all except southern tip (including Slough) in Berkshire
Cambridgeshire	Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely	none	all
	Huntingdon and Peterborough	none	all
Cheshire	Cheshire	Chester	all except Tintwistle Rural District (to Derbyshire), north-eastern urban area (to Greater Manchester), Wirral peninsula (to Merseyside)
	Lancashire	Warrington	mid-southern part, including Widnes
Cleveland	Durham	Hartlepool	Stockton Rural District
	Yorkshire, North Riding	Teesside	urban north
Cornwall	Cornwall	none	all
Cumbria	Cumberland	Carlisle	all
	Westmorland	none	all
	Lancashire	Barrow-in-Furness	North Lonsdale
	Yorkshire, West Riding	none	Sedbergh Rural District
Derbyshire	Derbyshire	Derby	all
	Cheshire	none	Tintwistle Rural District
Devon	Devon	Exeter, Plymouth, Torbay
Dorset	Dorset	none	all
	Hampshire	Bournemouth	area around Christchurch
Durham	Durham	Darlington	all except urban north-east (to Tyne and Wear) and Stockton Rural District (to Cleveland
East Sussex	East Sussex	Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings	all except eastern strip (to West Sussex)
Essex	Essex	Southend-on-Sea	all
Gloucestershire	Gloucestershire	Gloucester	all except southern part (to Avon
Hampshire	Hampshire	Portsmouth, Southampton	all except part around Christchurch (to Dorset)
Hereford and Worcester	Herefordshire	none	all
	Worcestershire	Worcester	all except Stourbridge and Halesowen (to West Midlands
Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire	none	all
Humberside	Lincoln, Parts of Lindsey	Grimsby	northern strip including Scunthorpe and Cleethorpes
	Yorkshire, East Riding	Kingston upon Hull	all except northern fringe
	Yorkshire, West Riding	none	Goole and Goole Rural District
Isle of Wight	Isle of Wight	none	all
Kent	Kent	Canterbury	all
Lancashire	Lancashire	Blackburn, Blackpool, Burnley, Preston	central part only (south-east to Greater Manchester, south-west part to Merseyside, mid-south to Cheshire, North Lonsdale to Cumbria)
	Yorkshire, West Riding	none	area including Barnoldswick
Leicestershire	Leicestershire	Leicester	all
	Rutland	none	all
Lincolnshire	Lincolnshire, Parts of Holland	none	all
	Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey	Lincoln	all but northern strip including Scunthorpe and Cleethorpes
	Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven	none
Norfolk	Norfolk	Norwich	all
	East Suffolk	none	part of Lothingland Rural District near Great Yarmouth
North Yorkshire	North Riding of Yorkshire	York	all except urban north (to Cleveland) and Startforth Rural District (to Durham)
	Yorkshire, West Riding		northern part including Harrogate, Knaresborough and Selby
	Yorkshire, East Riding		northern part including Filey
Northamptonshire	Northamptonshire	Northampton	all
Northumberland	Northumberland	none	all except urban south-east (to Tyne and Wear)
Nottinghamshire	Nottinghamshire	Nottingham	all except Finningley (to South Yorkshire)
Oxfordshire	Oxfordshire	Oxford	all
	Berkshire	none	area around Abingdon
Salop (Shropshire)	Salop	none	all
Somerset	Somerset	none	all except northern part (including Weston super Mare)
Staffordshire	Staffordshire	Burton upon Trent, Stoke-on-Trent
Suffolk	East Suffolk and West Suffolk	Ipswich	all, except part of north-east Suffolk near Great Yarmouth to Norfolk
Surrey	Surrey	none	all except Gatwick Airport
Warwickshire	Warwickshire	none
West Sussex	West Sussex	none	all
	East Sussex	none	eastern strip
Wiltshire	Wiltshire	none	all