# The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973 S.I. 1973/551 · made 26 March 1973 This Order provides names for the non-metropolitan districts in England. PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/english-non-metropolitan-districts-names-order-1973/pdf/uksi_19730551_en.pdf ## Introductory text LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES Made 26th March 1973 Coming into Operation 1st May 1973 The Secretary of State for the Environment, upon consideration of proposals made to him by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England and in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 3 to the Local Government Act 1972 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:— ## 1 Title and commencement This order may be cited as the English Non-metropolitan Districts (Names) Order 1973 and shall come into operation on 1st May 1973. ## 2 Interpretation (1) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of this order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament. (2) In this order— “non-metropolitan district” means a district in a non-metropolitan county the area of which is defined by reference to the areas specified in respect thereof (by reference to administrative areas existing immediately before the passing of the Local Government Act 1972) in column (2) of the Part of the Schedule to the order of 1972 relating to the county; “reference number” in relation to any non-metropolitan district in a non-metropolitan county named in column (1) of the Schedule to this order means the reference number of the district as specified in column (1) of the Part of the Schedule to the order of 1972 relating to the county; and in these definitions “the order of 1972” means the English dNon-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972. ## 3 Names of non-metropolitan districts In the non-metropolitan counties named in column (1) of the Schedule to this order each non-metropolitan district identified by its reference number in column (2) shall bear the name specified in respect of the district in column (3). ## Signature Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State, 26th March 1973. C. J. Pearce An Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment ## (1) (2) (3) Name of county Reference number of district Name of district Avon 1 2 3 4 5 6 Northavon Bristol Kingswood Woodspring Wansdyke Bath Bedfordshire 1 2 3 4 Bedford Mid Bedfordshire South Bedfordshire Luton Berkshire 1 2 3 4 5 6 Newbury Reading Workingham Windsor and Maidenhead Slough Bracknell Buckinghamshire 1 2 3 4 5 Milton Keynes Aylesbury Vale Wycombe Chiltern Beaconsfield Cambridgeshire 1 2 3 4 5 6 Peterborough Fenland Huntingdon East Cambridgeshire South Cambridgeshire Cambridge Cheshire 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Warrington Halton Ellesmere Port Vale Royal Macclesfield Chester Crewe Congleton Cleveland 1 2 3 4 Hartlepool Stock-on-Tees Middlesbrough Langbaurgh Cornwall 1 2 3 4 5 6 North Cornwall Restormel Caradon Penwith Kerrier Carrick Cumbria 1 2 3 4 5 6 Carlisle Allerdale Eden Copeland South Lakeland Barrow-in-Furness Derbyshire 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 High Peak Chesterfield West Derbyshire North East Derbyshire Bolsover Amber Valley Derby Erewash South Derbyshire Devon 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Torridge North Devon West Devon Tiverton Teignbridge Exeter East Devon Plymouth South Hams Torbay Dorset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 West Dorset North Dorset Wimborne Weymouth and Portland Purbeck Poole Bournemouth Christchurch Durham 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Derwentside Chester-le-Street Wear Valley Durham Easington Teesdale Sedgefield Darlington East Sussex 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Wealden Rother Hove Brighton Lewes Eastbourne Hastings Essex 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Uttlesford Braintree Colchester Tendring Harlow Epping Forest Chelmsford Maldon Brentwood Basildon Rochford Thurrock Castle Point Southend-on-Sea Gloucestershire 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tewkesbury Forest of Dean Gloucester Cheltenham Cotswold Stroud Hampshire 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Basingstoke Hartley Wintney Rushmoor Test Valley Winchester Petersfield New Forest Southampton Eastleigh Fareham Gosport Portsmouth Havant Hereford and Worcester 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Wyre Forest Bromsgrove Redditch Leominster South Herefordshire Hereford Malvern Hills Worcester Wychavon Hertfordshire 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 North Hertfordshire Stevenage East Hertfordshire Dacorum St. Albans Welwyn Hatfield Broxbourne Three Rivers Watford Hertsmere Humberside 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 North Wolds Boothferry Beverley Kingston upon Hull Holderness Scunthorpe Glanford Clethorpes Grimsby Isle of Wight 1 2 Medina South Wight Kent 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Dartford Gravesham Medway Gillingham Swale Canterbury Dover Thanet Sevenoaks Tonbridge and Malling Maidstone Tunbridge Wells Ashford Shepway Lancashire 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Lancaster Wyre Ribble Valley Blackpool Fylde Preston South Ribble West Lancashire Chorley Blackburn Hyndburn Burnley Pendle Rossendale Leicestershire 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 North West Leicestershire Charnwood Melton Bosworth Leicester Blaby Oadby and Wigston Harborough Rutland Lincolnshire 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 West Lindsey East Lindsey Lincoln North Kesteven Boston South Kesteven South Holland Norfolk 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pastonacres West Norfolk Breckland Norwich Broadland Great Yarmouth South Norfolk North Yorkshire 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Richmondshire Hambleton Ryedale Scarborough Craven Harrogate York Selby Northamptonshire 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Corby Kettering East Northamptonshire Daventry Northampton Wellingborough South Northamptonshire Northumberland 1 2 3 4 5 6 Berwick-upon-Tweed Alnwick Tynedale Castle Morpeth Wansbeck Blyth Valley Nottinghamshire 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Bassetlaw Mansfield Newark Ashfield Broxtowe Nottingham Gedling Rushcliffe Oxfordshire 1 2 3 4 5 West Oxfordshire Cherwell Oxford Vale of White Horse Wallingford Salop 1 2 3 4 5 6 Oswestry North Shropshire Shrewsbury Wrekin South Shropshire Bridgnorth Somerset 1 2 3 4 5 Sedgemoor Mendip West Somerset Taunton Deane Yeovil Staffordshire 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Staffordshire Moorlands Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke-on-Trent Stafford East Staffordshire South Staffordshire Cannock Chase Lichfield Tamworth Suffolk 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Waveney Forest Heath St. Edmundsbury Mid Suffolk Suffolk Coastal Babergh Ipswich Surrey 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Runnymede Spelthorne Surrey Heath Woking Elmbridge Epsom and Ewell Guildford Mole Valley Reigate and Banstead Tandridge Waverley Warwickshire 1 2 3 4 5 North Warwickshire Nuneaton Rugby Warwick Stratford-on-Avon West Sussex 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Crawley Chichester Horsham Mid Sussex Arun Worthing Adur Wiltshire 1 2 3 4 5 North Wiltshire Thamesdown West Wiltshire Kennet Salisbury ## Explanatory note This Order provides names for the non-metropolitan districts in England. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/551 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/english-non-metropolitan-districts-names-order-1973 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.