article: Local Government Act 1972
links: Castleford Portsmouth St Helens, Merseyside Dyfed Kingston upon Hull Newton-le-Willows Birkenhead April 12 Hertfordshire Barrow-in-Furness May 10 Cumberland Pontefract West Midlands (county) Houghton-le-Spring Trafford Dudley Southampton Tyldesley Chester Solihull Shaw and Crompton Halesowen Surrey Burton upon Trent Scotland Preston Warrington Buckinghamshire Nottinghamshire Gwynedd Sunderland April 13 Wakefield Walsall Stretford Urmston Coventry Ashton-under-Lyne Barnsley Bootle Southport Wath upon Dearne Wallasey Abram Slough Hyde, Greater Manchester Plymouth, Devon Worcestershire Abingdon, Oxfordshire United Kingdom Bedfordshire Oxford Gloucestershire Newcastle upon Tyne Hereford and Worcester England Brecknockshire Bath, Somerset Council of the Isles of Scilly Elland Metropolitan Borough of Bury City of Leeds Liverpool, England Cumbria Luton Rutland Warwickshire South Shields Brighton Eastbourne Rochdale Widnes Weston-super-Mare Scunthorpe Radnorshire Gwent (county) Flintshire Sowerby Bridge Kirkby Northampton Hastings Avon (county) Gloucester Exeter Harrogate May 11 Berkshire Reading, Berkshire Herefordshire Derbyshire Act of Parliament Pembrokeshire Northamptonshire West Riding of Yorkshire Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley Denbighshire Audenshaw Merseyside Wolverhampton Gosforth Sheffield Wiltshire Ipswich Manchester Sutton Coldfield Sandwell Metropolitan Borough of Wirral East Riding of Yorkshire Glamorgan Bristol Canterbury North Riding of Yorkshire Darlington Suffolk Carmarthenshire Stockport City of Salford Jarrow South Shropshire City of Sunderland Prestwich Derby Burnley Monmouthshire Isle of Wight Hampshire Blackburn West Sussex Lincoln, Lincolnshire Hartlepool North Yorkshire South Tyneside Bury Keighley Rotherham Birmingham Humberside Gatwick Airport Norfolk Southend-on-Sea Northumberland Gateshead Powys 1973 Christchurch, Dorset Montgomeryshire Blackpool Doncaster Droylsden Essex Newport Oxfordshire Metropolitan Borough of Oldham Kirkburton Great Yarmouth Leicestershire Whitley Bay Selby Stoke-on-Trent Bradford Leeds Lindsey Wigan York June 8 Swinton, South Yorkshire Salford North Tyneside Somerset Cornwall Kirklees Hereford Huddersfield Mossley Dewsbury Carlisle Leigh, Greater Manchester South Yorkshire Cardiganshire Oldham Altrincham Cleveland, England Nottingham Devon Worcester Anglesey Staffordshire Goole Rhondda Pontypridd Denton, Greater Manchester Bridgend Knaresborough Shropshire Stourbridge Tyne and Wear Westmorland Grimsby Lancashire Calderdale East Sussex Filey Washington, Tyne and Wear Wales County Durham Port Talbot West Yorkshire Horsforth Halifax, West Yorkshire City of Bradford Tameside Merthyr Tydfil Brighouse Leicester Tynemouth Cardiff Greater Manchester Garforth Cambridgeshire South Holland Swansea Lincolnshire June 7 Ilkley Cheshire Clwyd Todmorden City of Wakefield Bolton Dorset Norwich, England Kent Torbay