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Local Government Boundary Commission Report 1948

The commission recommended the creation of:

  • 20 one-tier counties (target population 200,000 to 1 million)
  • 47 two-tier counties (target population 200,000 to 500,000)
  • 63 "most-purpose" new county boroughs, which were to be part of the two-tier counties for certain purposes (target population less than 200,000)

One-tier counties

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  1. Birmingham
  2. Bradford
  3. Bristol
  4. Coventry
  5. Kingston-upon-Hull
  6. Leeds
  7. Leicester
  8. Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  9. Nottingham
  10. Plymouth
  11. Portsmouth
  12. Sheffield
  13. Croydon
  14. Derby
  15. East Ham
  16. Southampton
  17. North Staffordshire (Stoke CB, Newcastle MB, Kidsgrove UD)
  18. Sunderland
  19. Central Sussex (Brighton CB, Hove MB, Portslade Shoreham, Southwick UDs)
  20. West Ham

Two-tier counties

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  1. Leicestershire and Rutland merger
  2. Holland and Kesteven merger
  3. East and West Suffolk merger
  4. Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely, Huntingdonshire, Soke of Peterborough merger
  5. Westmorland and north Lancashire merger
  6. Cheshire (reduced in size)
  7. Central Lancashire
  8. South Lancashire
  9. South-east Lancashire and north-east Cheshire
  10. South-west Lancashire and north-west Cheshire
  11. Central Staffordshire
  12. South Staffordshire
  13. North Yorkshire (North Riding, Middlesbrough CB, and from Co Durham Stockton-on-Tees and Billingham)
  14. East Yorkshire (East Riding and York CB)
  15. West Yorkshire (part of West Riding)
  16. Bedfordshire (unchanged)
  17. Berkshire (unchanged)
  18. Buckinghamshire (unchanged)
  19. Cornwall (unchanged)
  20. Cumberland (with Carlisle CB)
  21. Derbyshire
  22. Devon (with Exeter CB)
  23. Dorset (with Bournemouth CB)
  24. Durham (less areas to north Yorkshire, with Darlington, Gateshead, South Shields, West Hartlepool CBs)
  25. Essex (with Southend CB)
  26. Gloucestershire (with Gloucester CB)
  27. Hampshire (renaming of county of Southampton)
  28. Hertfordshire (unchanged)
  29. Kent (with Canterbury CB)
  30. North Lincolnshire (Lindsey and Grimsby CB)
  31. Middlesex (unchanged)
  32. Monmouthshire (with Newport CB)
  33. Norfolk (with Great Yarmouth, Norwich CBs)
  34. Northamptonshire (with Northampton CB)
  35. Northumberland (with Tynemouth CB)
  36. Nottinghamshire (unchanged)
  37. Oxfordshire (with Oxford CB)
  38. Salop (unchanged)
  39. Somerset (with Bath CB)
  40. Surrey (unchanged)
  41. East Sussex (less areas to Central Sussex, with Eastbourne, Hastings CB)
  42. West Sussex (less areas to Central Sussex)
  43. Warwickshire (unchanged)
  44. Isle of Wight (unchanged)
  45. Wiltshire (unchanged)
  46. South Yorkshire (part of west Riding)
  47. Herefordshire and Worcestershire merger

Most-purpose county boroughs

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  1. Liverpool†
  2. Manchester†
  3. Salford
  4. Bolton
  5. Wolverhampton (in S Staffs)
  6. Blackpool
  7. Southend
  8. Middlesbrough
  9. Stockport
  10. Bournemouth (in Dorset)
  11. Birkenhead
  12. Huddersfield
  13. Oldham
  14. Preston
  15. Norwich
  16. Reading
  17. Gateshead
  18. Walsall
  19. Blackburn
  20. York
  21. St Helens
  22. Northampton
  23. Oxford
  24. South Shields
  25. Newport
  26. Ipswich
  27. Wallasey
  28. Halifax
  29. Grimsby
  30. Rochdale
  31. Southport
  32. West Bromwich
  33. Wigan
  34. Darlington
  35. Burnley
  36. Rotherham
  37. Warrington
  38. Bath
  39. Doncaster
  40. Exeter
  41. Smethwick
  42. Barnsley
  43. West Hartlepool
  44. Bootle
  45. Barrow
  46. Lincoln
  47. Tynemouth
  48. Carlisle
  49. Hastings
  50. Gloucester
  51. Dudley
  52. Worcester
  53. Cambridge
  54. Cheltenham
  55. Chesterfield
  56. Luton
  57. Poole
  58. Slough
  59. Stockton (in North Yorkshire)
  60. Stretford
  61. Swindon
  62. Worthing
  63. Chatham-Gillingham-Rochester

† large enough to be a one-tier county, but to be centre of gravity for new counties of SWLNWC and SELNEC respectively

Wales

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  • Glamorgan - 2 tier
  • Cardiff - 1 tier
  • Merthyr Tydfil -county borough
  • Swansea - undecided
  • Remaining 11 counties to be grouped into 2, 3, 4 or 5 new counties

Sources

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The Times, April 9 1948, pages 2 and 5