County Borough of Preston

Preston
Preston
	; Fulwood Urban District in 1950 ; County Borough of Preston in 1950 ;
Population
? 1841	50,131
? 1881	96,532
? 1961	113,341
History
? Origin	Ancient borough
? Created	1836
? Abolished	1974
? Succeeded by	Borough of Preston
Status	Municipal borough (1836?1889) ; County borough (1889?1974)
	;

Preston Municipal Borough , also known as the County Borough of Preston from 1889, was a local government district coterminate with the town of Preston in Lancashire , northwest England from 1836 to 1974. ^[1]

Preston was one of only a few industrial towns in Lancashire to have a functioning corporation in 1835, its charter dating to 1685, ^[2] and was reformed as a municipal borough by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 . ^[3]

The Local Government Act 1888 created elected county councils throughout England and Wales. However, any municipal borough with a population of 50,000 or more at the census of 1881 was to be independent of the administration of the county council, with the new status of county borough . ^[4] Preston, with an 1881 population of 96,532 ^[5] duly became a county borough on 1 April 1889, outside the jurisdiction of Lancashire County Council .

The county borough's boundaries were widened on three occasions: in 1934, 1952 and 1956. ^[6]

The county borough was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 and its territory transferred to Lancashire to be combined with Fulwood Urban District and part of Preston Rural District , becoming the new non-metropolitan district of the Borough of Preston .

References [ edit ]

^ * Youngs, Frederic A. Jr. (1991). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.2: Northern England . London: Royal Historical Society . p. 680. ISBN 0861931270 .
^ Cassidy, Irene. "Preston" . History of Parliament Online . History of Parliament Trust . Retrieved 19 April 2012 .
^ "Records of the Borough of Preston" . National Archives.
^ Local Government Act 1888, s.31
^ Preliminary report, Census of England and Wales, 1881 . HMSO . 1881. p. 23.
^ "Relationships / unit history of PRESTON" . A Vision of Britain . Archived from the original on 15 September 2012.

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[1] * Youngs, Frederic A. Jr. (1991). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.2: Northern England . London: Royal Historical Society . p. 680. ISBN 0861931270 .

[2] Cassidy, Irene. "Preston" . History of Parliament Online . History of Parliament Trust . Retrieved 19 April 2012 .

[3] "Records of the Borough of Preston" . National Archives.

[4] Local Government Act 1888, s.31

[1881census-5] Preliminary report, Census of England and Wales, 1881 . HMSO . 1881. p. 23.

[6] "Relationships / unit history of PRESTON" . A Vision of Britain . Archived from the original on 15 September 2012.

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