Subdivisions of England

For local government purporses, England is divided into three types of areas - non-unitary authorities, Unitary Authorities, and London boroughs.

Non-unitary authorities are administrative counties that are subdivided into a number of districts, which have district councils. Unitary Authorities are either administrative counties consisting of a single district, or districts of a county with no county council. The council of a Unitary Authorities are refered to as "district council", unless it converges with a borough, city, or historic county (in the cases of Rutland and Herefordshire), in which case it is called a "borough council", "city council" or "county council".

Greater London has no county council; the 32 borough councils are the highest authority, although the Greater London Authority exists to coordinate their activities.

England is also divided into governmental regions: Greater London, South East England, South West England, East of England, East Midlands, West Midlands, North West England, Yorkshire and the Humber and North East England.

See also: Subdivisions of the United Kingdom, Counties of England, Districts of England, Historic Counties of England

This is a list of areas with a council with no council above them. It is ordered according to legal definition : counties with county councils; the three types of unitary authorities: counties without county councils, metropolitan districts, non-metropolitan districts; and London Boroughs.

Table of contents

1 Administrative counties with County Councils 2 Unitary Authorities 2.1 Administrative counties 2.2 Metroplitan districts 2.3 Non-metropolitan districts 3 London Boroughs 4 References

Administrative counties with County Councils

• Bedfordshire
• Buckinghamshire
• Cambridgeshire
• Cheshire
• Cornwall
• Cumbria
• Derbyshire
• Devon
• Dorset
• County Durham
• East Sussex
• Essex
• Gloucestershire
• Hampshire
• Hertfordshire
• Kent
• Lancashire
• Leicestershire
• Lincolnshire
• Norfolk
• Northamptonshire
• Northumberland
• North Yorkshire
• Nottinghamshire
• Oxfordshire
• Shropshire
• Somerset
• Staffordshire
• Suffolk
• Surrey
• Warwickshire
• West Sussex
• Wiltshire
• Worcestershire

Unitary Authorities

Main article: Unitary Authority

Administrative counties

These are defined as legal counties with one district and no county council.

• Bath and North East Somerset
• Blackburn with Darwen
• Blackpool
• Bournemouth
• Brighton and Hove
• Bristol
• Derby
• Darlington
• East Riding of Yorkshire
• Halton
• Hartlepool
• Herefordshire
• Isle of Wight
• Kingston upon Hull
• Leicester
• Luton
• Medway Towns
• Middlesbrough
• Milton Keynes
• North East Lincolnshire
• North Lincolnshire
• North Somerset
• Nottingham
• Peterborough
• Plymouth
• Poole
• Portsmouth
• Redcar and Cleveland
• Rutland
• Southampton
• Southend-on-Sea
• South Gloucestershire
• Stockton-on-Tees
• Stoke-on-Trent
• Swindon
• Telford and Wrekin
• Thurrock
• Torbay
• Warrington
• York

Metroplitan districts

These are defined as districts of a metropolitan county, which has had its county council abolished.

• Barnsley
• Birmingham
• Bolton
• Bradford
• Bury
• Calderdale
• Coventry
• Doncaster
• Dudley
• Gateshead
• Kirklees
• Knowsley
• Leeds
• Liverpool
• Manchester
• Newcastle Upon Tyne
• North Tyneside
• Oldham
• Rochdale
• Rotherham
• Salford
• Sandwell
• Sefton
• Sheffield
• Solihull
• South Tyneside
• St. Helens
• Stockport
• Sunderland
• Tameside
• Trafford
• Wakefield
• Walsall
• Wigan
• Wirral
• Wolverhampton

Non-metropolitan districts

These are districts of a non-metropolitan county (Berkshire) which has had its county council abolished.

• Bracknell Forest
• Reading
• Slough
• West Berkshire
• Windsor and Maidenhead
• Wokingham

London Boroughs

Main article: London Boroughs

• London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
• London Borough of Barnet
• London Borough of Bexley
• London Borough of Brent
• London Borough of Bromley
• London Borough of Camden
• City of London
• London Borough of Croydon
• London Borough of Ealing
• London Borough of Enfield
• London Borough of Greenwich
• London Borough of Hackney
• London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
• London Borough of Haringey
• London Borough of Harrow
• London Borough of Havering
• London Borough of Hillingdon
• London Borough of Hounslow
• London Borough of Islington
• Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
• Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
• London Borough of Lambeth
• London Borough of Lewisham
• London Borough of Merton
• London Borough of Newham
• London Borough of Redbridge
• London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
• London Borough of Southwark
• London Borough of Sutton
• London Borough of Tower Hamlets
• London Borough of Waltham Forest
• London Borough of Wandsworth
• City of Westminster

References

• CIA World Fact Book 2002 (Note however data used in the CIA's article on Great Britain is older than the publication date, updated information is recorded here)

See also administrative map (External link) at "Great Britain" and ISO 3166-2 Codes for UK Administrative Divisions