List of rural and urban districts in England in 1973
This is a list of all the rural districts, urban districts and municipal boroughs in England as they existed prior to the entry into force of the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974. There were 1086 such districts and boroughs at this time, the result of a gradual consolidation since their formation in 1894. Apart from these, England also had 79 county boroughs. Bedford. Luton was a county borough. Berkshire. Reading was a county borough. Buckingham. There were no county boroughs. Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely. There were  no county boroughs. Cheshire. Birkenhead, Chester, Stockport, and Wallasey were county boroughs. Cornwall. There were no county boroughs. Cumberland. Carlisle was a county borough. Derbyshire. Derby was a county borough. Devon. Exeter, Plymouth and Torbay were county boroughs. Durham. Darlington, Gateshead, Hartlepool, South Shields, Sunderland and Teesside were county boroughs. East Suffolk. Ipswich was a county borough. East Sussex. Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings were county boroughs. Essex. Southend-on-Sea was a county borough. Gloucestershire. Bristol and Gloucester were county boroughs. Hampshire. Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Southampton were county boroughs. Herefordshire. There were no county boroughs. Hertfordshire. There were no county  boroughs. Huntingdon and Peterborough. There were no county boroughs. Isle of Wight. There were no county boroughs. Kent. Canterbury was a county borough. Lancashire. Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Bootle, Burnley, Bury, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, Salford, Southport, St Helens, Warrington and Wigan were county boroughs. Leicestershire. Leicester was a county borough. Lincolnshire, Parts of Holland. There were no county boroughs. Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven. There were no county boroughs. Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey. Grimsby and Lincoln were county boroughs. Norfolk. Great Yarmouth and Norwich were county boroughs. Northamptonshire. Northampton was a county borough. Northumberland. Newcastle upon Tyne  and Tynemouth were county boroughs. Nottinghamshire. Nottingham was a county borough. Oxford. Oxford was a county borough. Rutland. There were no county boroughs. Shropshire (Salop). There were no county boroughs. Somerset. Bath (and Bristol) were county boroughs. Staffordshire. Burton upon Trent, Dudley, Stoke-on-Trent, Walsall, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton were county boroughs. Surrey. There were no county boroughs. Warwickshire. Coventry, Solihull and Birmingham were county boroughs. West Suffolk. There were no county boroughs. West Sussex. There were no county boroughs. Westmorland. There were no county boroughs. Wiltshire. There were no county boroughs. Worcestershire. Warley and Worcester were county boroughs . Yorkshire, East Riding. Kingston upon Hull and York were county boroughs. Yorkshire, North Riding. York and Teesside were county boroughs. Yorkshire, West Riding. Barnsley, Bradford, Dewsbury, Doncaster, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, Rotherham, Sheffield, Wakefield and York were county boroughs.