Unreformed boroughs were those corporate towns in England and Wales which had not been reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. A handful of these...
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local government in the incorporated boroughs of England and Wales. The legislation was part of the reform programme of the Whigs and followed the Reform...
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incorporated in England and Wales 1835–1882, Unreformed boroughs in England and Wales 1835–1886, Boroughs incorporated in England and Wales 1882–1974, Municipal...
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eighteen boroughs were incorporated: sixteen towns that had been enfranchised by the Reform Act 1832 and two of the boroughs unreformed in 1835 were brought...
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The London boroughs have populations of between 150,000 and 400,000. Inner London boroughs tend to be smaller, in both population and area, and more densely...
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cities and boroughs of the time, London was not reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835; and unlike the other unreformed cities and boroughs of the...
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borough was a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1836 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in...
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slowly replacing the tier structure and metropolitan boroughs with all the metropolitan boroughs in combined authorities and periodic abolitions of the tier...
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1933. Forty-five boroughs were incorporated in this period. Of this number, more than half (twenty-five) were unreformed boroughs listed in the schedule to...
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ancient borough was a historic unit of lower-tier local government in England and Wales. The ancient boroughs covered only important towns and were established...
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The map depicts the county boroughs in England immediately prior to their abolition in 1974. County boroughs in Wales and Northern Ireland are not shown...
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system of larger London boroughs in 1965, when the County of London was replaced by Greater London. The current metropolitan boroughs originated as metropolitan...
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Reading (UK Parliament constituency) (redirect from Parliamentary Borough of Reading)
Representation 1832 – England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965) Edward Porritt and Annie G Porritt, The Unreformed House of Commons (Cambridge...
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Whigs (British political party) (redirect from Whig Party (England))
(1967). The Whigs in Opposition, 1815–1830. Oxford: Clarendon Press. O'Gorman, Frank. Voters, patrons, and parties: the unreformed electoral system of...
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Great Grimsby (UK Parliament constituency) (category Parliamentary constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber)
seats. However, Grimsby's population and housing continued to grow and, unlike most of the boroughs that lost one seat in 1832, it has retained its existence...
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Beaumaris (UK Parliament constituency) (redirect from Beaumaris Boroughs (UK Parliament constituency))
the Beaumaris District of Boroughs or simply the Beaumaris Boroughs. As elsewhere in Wales, the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 provided Anglesey with...
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Richmond (Yorks) (UK Parliament constituency) (category Parliamentary constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber)
the parliamentary boroughs in the Unreformed House of Commons that dates to the middle of its long existence, first being represented in 1585. Medieval royal...
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Banbury (UK Parliament constituency) (category Parliamentary constituencies in Oxfordshire)
1554 through the efforts of Henry Stafford and Thomas Denton. It was one of the few in England in the unreformed House of Commons to elect only one Member...
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Shrewsbury (UK Parliament constituency) (category Parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire (historic))
Bench, 1886 "Shrewsbury Borough Election". Eddowes's Journal, and General Advertiser for Shropshire, and the Principality of Wales. 7 July 1886. p. 6....
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Bath (UK Parliament constituency) (category Parliamentary constituencies in Somerset)
Representation 1832 – England and Wales (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965) Edward Porritt and Annie G Porritt, The Unreformed House of Commons (Cambridge...
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City of Durham (UK Parliament constituency) (category 1678 establishments in England)
Unreformed House of Commons, Vol I: England and Wales" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1903) Henry Stooks Smith, The Parliaments of England from...
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Chippenham (UK Parliament constituency) (category Parliamentary constituencies in Wiltshire)
Devizes, North Wiltshire and Westbury constituencies. 1295–1832: The parliamentary borough of Chippenham in the unreformed Parliament consisted of only...
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Bodmin (UK Parliament constituency) (category Wikipedia articles citing Notitia Parliamentaria that were auto-converted and need a page number check)
Unlike many of the boroughs in Cornwall which were represented in the Unreformed House of Commons, Bodmin was a town of reasonable size and retained some importance;...
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Local Government Act 1958 (redirect from Rural boroughs)
county boroughs, removing the power of boroughs to promote local bills for this purpose. The population requirement for becoming a county borough would...
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Representation of the People Act 1884 (category 1884 in British law)
passed a second time and gained royal assent on 6 December of that year. The Act extended the 1867 concessions from the boroughs to the countryside. All...
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Criccieth (redirect from Criccieth, Wales)
granted. The borough, who had met in the Old Town Hall, was left unreformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835; a royal commission reported in 1876 that...
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Monmouthshire (historic) (redirect from Wales and Monmouthshire)
Monmouth and Newport were reformed as municipal boroughs with elected town councils by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. Usk continued as an unreformed borough...
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Some of the older boroughs were still affected by the different franchises that had applied to them before 1832 (see the Unreformed House of Commons for...
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Beverley (UK Parliament constituency) (category Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom established in 1563)
Qualifications for Members". The Unreformed House of Commons: Parliamentary Representation Before 1832; Volume 1: England and Wales. Cambridge: Cambridge University...
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Maidstone (UK Parliament constituency) (category Borough of Maidstone)
represented in the Parliament of England, Great Britain and from 1801 the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The parliamentary borough of...
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