English unitary district
English unitary districts (or UDs) are a form of Unitary Authority created from the administrative counties created in the 1972 Local Government Act within which only a single district existed and within which a single-tier system of adminstration held jurestiction within that district, that administrative authority being the council of the district (i.e. no 'county council' was present).There are currently 38 English unitary districts in Great Britain, which comprise the following:
- Middlesbrough
- Milton Keynes
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Bournemouth
- Brighton and Hove
- Bristol
- County of Herefordshire
- Derby
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Halton
- Hartlepool
- Kingston upon Hull
- Leicester
- Luton
- Medway
- North East Lincolnshire
- North Lincolnshire
- North Somerset
- Nottingham
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Poole
- Portsmouth
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Rutland
- South Gloucestershire
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Swindon
- Telford and Wrekin
- Torbay
- Thurrock
- Warrington
- York