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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

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

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

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

• 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

The Times, April 9 1948, pages 2 and 5