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Counties (detached Parts) Act 1844




The Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict . c. 61) was an act of Parliament Of The United Kingdom which eliminated many outliers or Exclave s of Counties in England And Wales for civil purposes. The whole Act was repealed by the Local Government Act 1972 .

The areas involved had already been reorganised for some purposes: The Reform Act 1832 had abolished the outliers for parliamentary constituencies, the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1839 allowed Justices Of The Peace to act for exclaves surrounded by their county, and constabularies established under County Police Act 1839 had jurisdiction over detached parts of other counties.

The text of the act read:

The Act went on to state that the parts transferred would be incorporated in an existing " Hundred , Wapentake , Rape , Lathe or other like divisions unless the Justices of the County declare it to be a new hundred or division."

The Act itself did not list the areas transferred, these had already been detailed in the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. IV , c. 64).


AREAS TRANSFERRED


The Act affected twenty-seven counties. The largest changes were to . Many of these anomalies were dealt with in the 1890s following the passing of the Local Government Act 1894 . Large detached blocks of Warwickshire and Worcestershire interspersed with Gloucestershire remained until 1931, while Flintshire retained a large exclave until its abolition in 1974.


Bedfordshire

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Berkshire

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Buckinghamshire

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Cornwall

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Denbighshire

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Derbyshire

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Devon

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Dorset

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  • The part of the parish of Axminster in Dorset transferred to Devon

  • The parish of Stockland (including the hamlet of ''' Dalwood ''') transferred to Devon

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County Durham

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Gloucestershire

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Hampshire

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Herefordshire

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Hertfordshire

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Huntingdonshire

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Monmouthshire

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Montgomeryshire

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Northamptonshire

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  • The part of the parish of Farndish in Northamptonshire transferred to Bedfordshire

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Northumberland

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Oxfordshire

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Shropshire

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Somerset

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Staffordshire

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Sussex

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Warwickshire

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Wiltshire

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Worcestershire

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Yorkshire , North Riding



SOURCES


  • ''Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844'', 7 & 8 Vict. c. 61, London


  • Moule, Thomas (1836) ''Moule's English Counties in the 19th Century'', London : Simpkin & Marshall, republished (1990) as ''The County Maps of Old England by Thomas Moule'', London : Studio Editions Ltd, ISBN 1-85170-403-5


  • Youngs, Frederic A. (1979) ''Guide to the local administrative units of England'', Vol. 1: Southern England, Royal Historical Society, Guides and handbooks no. 10., London : University College, ISBN 0-901050-67-9


  • Youngs, Frederic A. (1991) ''Guide to the local administrative units of England'', Vol. 2: Northern England, Royal Historical Society, Guides and handbooks no. 17., London : University College, ISBN 0-86193-127-0