This is a list of all the rural districts, urban districts and municipal boroughs in England as they existed prior to the entry into force of the Local Government Act 1972 on 1 April 1974. There were 1086 such districts and boroughs at this time, the result of a gradual consolidation since their formation in 1894. Apart from these, England also had 79 county boroughs.
Luton was a county borough.
Reading was a county borough.
There were no county boroughs.
There were no county boroughs.
Birkenhead, Chester, Stockport, and Wallasey were county boroughs.
There were no county boroughs.
Carlisle was a county borough.
Derby was a county borough.
Exeter, Plymouth and Torbay were county boroughs.
Darlington, Gateshead, Hartlepool, South Shields, Sunderland and Teesside were county boroughs.
Ipswich was a county borough.
Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings were county boroughs.
Southend-on-Sea was a county borough.
Bristol and Gloucester were county boroughs.
Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Southampton were county boroughs.
There were no county boroughs.
There were no county boroughs.
There were no county boroughs.
There were no county boroughs.
Canterbury was a county borough.
Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Bootle, Burnley, Bury, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, Salford, Southport, St Helens, Warrington and Wigan were county boroughs.
Leicester was a county borough.
There were no county boroughs.
There were no county boroughs.
Grimsby and Lincoln were county boroughs.
Great Yarmouth and Norwich were county boroughs.
Northampton was a county borough.
Newcastle upon Tyne and Tynemouth were county boroughs.
Nottingham was a county borough.
Oxford was a county borough.
There were no county boroughs.
There were no county boroughs.
Bath (and Bristol) were county boroughs.
Burton upon Trent, Dudley, Stoke-on-Trent, Walsall, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton were county boroughs.
There were no county boroughs.
Coventry, Solihull and Birmingham were county boroughs.
There were no county boroughs.
There were no county boroughs.
There were no county boroughs.
There were no county boroughs.
Warley and Worcester were county boroughs.
Kingston upon Hull and York were county boroughs.
York and Teesside were county boroughs.
Barnsley, Bradford, Dewsbury, Doncaster, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, Rotherham, Sheffield, Wakefield and York were county boroughs.