Complex sentence: The town was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, it retained its status as a municipal borough until 1974, when the Local Government Act 1972 made it a successor parish within the district of West Oxfordshire.
Split into simpler sentences: The town was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. It retained its status as a municipal borough until 1974, when the Local Government Act 1972 made it a successor parish within the district of West Oxfordshire.