page_title: Evolution of Worcestershire county boundaries since 1844
section_title: Review of the West Midlands (City of Birmingham) Boundaries with Bromsgrove (Hereford and Worcester)
hierarchical_section_title: Evolution of Worcestershire county boundaries since 1844 / Hereford and Worcester (1974–1998) / Review of the West Midlands (City of Birmingham) Boundaries with Bromsgrove (Hereford and Worcester)
caption_attribution_description: "Review of the West Midlands (City of Birmingham) Boundaries with Bromsgrove (Hereford &amp; Worcester)" (Report No. 629) 09 January 1992 - Map showing the proposals transferring territory between Hereford &amp; Worcester and the West Midlands. Local Government Boundary Commission for England "Review of the West Midlands (City of Birmingham) Boundaries with Bromsgrove (Hereford &amp; Worcester)" (Report No. 629 http://www.lgbce.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/11878/629.-city-of-birmingham-and-its-boundaries-with-bromsgrove-hereford-and-worcester.pdf
context_page_description: The administrative boundaries of Worcestershire, England have been fluid for over 150 years since the first major changes in 1844. There were many detached parts of Worcestershire in the surrounding counties, and conversely there were islands of other counties within Worcestershire. The 1844 Counties Act began the process of eliminating these, but the process was not completed until 1966, when Dudley was absorbed into Staffordshire.
  The expansion of Birmingham and the Black Country during and after the Industrial Revolution also altered the county map considerably. Local government commissions were set up to recommend changes to the local government structures, and as early as 1945 recommendations were made to merge Worcestershire with Herefordshire. Eventually in 1974, a form of this recommendation was carried out, most of Worcestershire was combined with Herefordshire to form a new county named Hereford & Worcester, while the northern Black Country towns and villages of Worcestershire, along with adjoining areas of Staffordshire and Warwickshire, formed the new administrative county of West Midlands.
context_section_description: The most recent transfer of territory between the West Midlands County and Hereford & Worcester or Worcestershire occurred along sections of the Birmingham and Bromsgrove district boundary. The draft proposals and final report of the LBGCE Review of the West Midlands (City of Birmingham) Boundaries with Bromsgrove (Hereford & Worcester) proposed that Frankley, Kitwell Estate, Rednal, Rubery, Walkers Heath and the remainder of Bartley Reservoir transfer to Birmingham, as per Fig 13. These changes were intended to unify several housing estates built and maintained by Birmingham City Council under the Town Development Act 1952, but which fell within the Bromsgrove boundary. Frankley was split into two parts with New Frankley and the area around Bartley Reservoir transferred from Bromsgrove to Birmingham in April 1995. The small village of Frankley remained in Hereford & Worcester and formed a new Civil Parish under the same name. Hopwood's surrounding areas were transferred from the city to Bromsgrove. Rubery remained within Hereford & Worcester and also Worcestershire after the county was recreated in 1998, contrary to the LGBCE final proposal.
  These boundary changes were relatively minor in comparison to previous transfers.
caption: Fig 13: "Review of the West Midlands (City of Birmingham) Boundaries with Bromsgrove (Hereford & Worcester)" (Report No. 629) 9 January 1992 – Map showing the proposals transferring territory between Hereford & Worcester and the West Midlands.
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