Municipal Borough of Morecambe and Heysham

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Coordinates: 54°03′14″N2°53′06″W / 54.054°N 2.885°W / 54.054; -2.885 Morecambe and Heysham was a municipal borough in Lancashire, England. It was formed in 1928 by the merging of Morecambe Municipal Borough and Heysham Urban District, and abolished in 1974 when it was absorbed into the City of Lancaster local government district. [1] [2] [3]

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Municipal boroughs were a type of local government district which existed in England and Wales between 1835 and 1974, in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1973 and in the Republic of Ireland from 1840 to 2002. Broadly similar structures existed in Scotland from 1833 to 1975 with the reform of royal burghs and creation of police burghs.

Lancashire County of England

Lancashire is a ceremonial county in North West England. The administrative centre is Preston. The county has a population of 1,449,300 and an area of 1,189 square miles (3,080 km2). People from Lancashire are known as Lancastrians.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Morecambe and Heysham MB through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "Morecambe UD/MB through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "Heysham UD through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
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