Jump to content

User:Owain/Sandbox/Worcestershire (administrative)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Worcestershire in an administrative sense. For other uses, see Worcestershire
Worcestershire non-metropolitan county
Geography
Created 1 April 1998
Origin Historic
Region West Midlands
Area
- Total
1,741 km²
Ranked 29th
Admin HQ Worcester
ISO 3166-2 GB-WOR
ONS code 47
NUTS UKG12
Demographics
Population
- Total (2005 est)
- Density
Ranked 22nd
555, 900
319 / km²
Ethnicity 97.5% White
1.1% S.Asian

Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county located in the West Midlands region of central England. It was created on 1 April 1998[1] and is governed by Worcestershire County Council.

Administrative history

[edit]

1889 to 1974

[edit]

An administrative county of Worcester was created by the Local Government Act 1888[2]. This was based on the ancient county, but with minor border differences. Additionally, the city of Worcester and municipal borough of Dudley were formed as county boroughs, outside of the administrative county.

1974 to 1998

[edit]

From 1974 to 1998, the middle and southern part of county was combined with Herefordshire and Worcester county borough to form a single non-metropolitan county of Hereford and Worcester; the county boroughs of Dudley and Warley along with Stourbridge and Halesowen were incorporated into the West Midlands Metropolitan county. The West Midlands County Council was only in existence for a short period before abolition in 1986. In the 1990s UK local government reform the decision was taking to abolish Hereford and Worcester, with the new non-metropolitan county of Worcestershire having the historic border with Herefordshire, but still excluding areas in the north in West Midlands.

Districts

[edit]

Worcestershire is divided into six local government districts:

  1. Worcester
  2. Malvern Hills
  3. Wyre Forest
  4. Bromsgrove
  5. Redditch
  6. Wychavon

References

[edit]
Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England Flag of England
Subdivisions created by the Local Government Act 1972 and 1992

Bath and North East Somerset | Bedfordshire | Berkshire | Blackburn with Darwen | Blackpool | Bournemouth | Brighton and Hove | Bristol | Buckinghamshire | Cambridgeshire | Cheshire | Cornwall | Cumbria | Darlington | Derby | Derbyshire | Devon | Dorset | Durham | East Riding of Yorkshire | East Sussex | Essex | Gloucestershire | Greater Manchester | Halton | Hampshire | Hartlepool | Herefordshire | Hertfordshire | Isle of Wight | Kent | Kingston upon Hull | Lancashire | Leicester | Leicestershire | Lincolnshire | Luton | Medway | Merseyside | Middlesbrough | Milton Keynes | Norfolk | Northamptonshire | North East Lincolnshire | North Lincolnshire | North Somerset | Northumberland | North Yorkshire | Nottingham | Nottinghamshire | Oxfordshire | Peterborough | Plymouth | Poole | Portsmouth | Redcar and Cleveland | Rutland | Shropshire | Somerset | Southampton | Southend-on-Sea | South Gloucestershire | South Yorkshire | Staffordshire | Stockton-on-Tees | Stoke-on-Trent | Suffolk | Surrey | Swindon | Telford and Wrekin | Thurrock | Torbay | Tyne and Wear | Warrington | Warwickshire | West Midlands | West Sussex | West Yorkshire | Wiltshire | Worcestershire | York