Editing Worcestershire (section)

==Local government==
{{main|Evolution of Worcestershire county boundaries|List of Worcestershire boundary changes}}

Local government in Worcestershire has changed several times since the middle of the 19th century.

===1844–1911===
[[File:St John the Baptists Church Halesowen - geograph.org.uk - 58802.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Halesowen]] was an exclave of neighbouring [[Shropshire]] until 1844 when it was reincorporated into Worcestershire. It is now within the metropolitan county of the [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]].]]
Worcestershire contained numerous [[exclaves]], which were areas of land cut off from the main geographical area of Worcestershire and completely surrounded by the nearby counties of Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and [[Oxfordshire]]. The most notable islands were Dudley,<ref>Richardson, Eric (2000) The Black Country as Seen through Antique Maps, The Black Country Society {{ISBN|0-904015-60-2}}</ref> Evenlode,<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk A Vision of Britain through Time] [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9874 Evenlode, Worcestershire] – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> Blockley<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk A Vision of Britain through Time] [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9726 Blockley, Worcestershire] – Retrieved 7 August 2014</ref> and the area around Shipston-on-Stour.<ref>[http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/ Worcester Branch of the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry] [http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/ShipstonOnStour.html Shipston-upon-Stour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810180251/http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/ShipstonOnStour.html |date=10 August 2011 }} – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and [[Shropshire]] had their own exclaves within the main part of Worcestershire at [[Rochford, Worcestershire|Rochford]],<ref>[http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/ Worcester Branch of the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry] [http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/Rochford.html Rochford, Herefordshire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810183527/http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/Rochford.html |date=10 August 2011}} – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> [[Broome, Worcestershire|Broome]],<ref>[http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/ Worcester Branch of the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry] [http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/Broom.html Broome, Staffordshire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810075025/http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/Broom.html |date=10 August 2011 }} – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> Clent,<ref>Harbach M, [https://web.archive.org/web/20010417052052/http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Boundaries.html Genealogy UK & Ireland] – Retrieved 29 July 2011</ref> Tardebigge ([[Tutnall and Cobley]])<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp A Vision of Britain through Time] [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/place_page.jsp?p_id=21106 Tardebigge, Warwickshire] – Retrieved 27 May 2020</ref> and [[Halesowen]] respectively. Tardebigge's history outside the county is even more colourful, changing hands from Worcestershire to Staffordshire and Warwickshire, before returning to Worcestershire at differing times over the centuries.<ref>[http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/ Worcester Branch of the Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry] [http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/Tardebigge.html Tardebigge] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110906140918/http://www.worcesterbmsgh.co.uk/Tardebigge.html |date=6 September 2011 }} – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> The southern boundary of the county was also complex, with parish boundaries penetrating deep into Gloucestershire and vice versa.

[[Worcestershire County Council]] came into existence following the [[Local Government Act 1888]] and covered the historic [[Association of British Counties|traditional county]],<ref name="webb">{{Cite book |last1=Webb |first1=Sidney |title=English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act |last2=Webb |first2=Beatrice |publisher=[[Longman|Longman's Green and Co.]] |year=1906 |volume=1: The Parish and the County |location=London |pages=283–287 |author-link=Sidney Webb |author-link2=Beatrice Webb}}</ref> except for two designated [[county boroughs]] at [[County Borough of Dudley|Dudley]] and Worcester.<ref name="LGA1888">[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ HM Government Legislation] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/51-52/41 Local Government Act 1888] – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref>

Birmingham's continuous expansion has been a major cause of Worcestershire's fluid boundary changes and associated housing issues.<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp A Vision of Britain through Time] [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10101001&c_id=10001043 Birmingham Municipal Borough/County Borough, Warwickshire] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930201127/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10101001 |date=30 September 2007 }} – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> The district of [[Balsall Heath]], which had originally constituted the most northerly part of the parish of [[King's Norton]], was the first area of the county to be added to the [[County Borough of Birmingham]], on 1 October 1891. This was followed by [[Quinton, Birmingham|Quinton]] [[Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland)|Urban District]], which was ceded to Birmingham in November 1909, and then by the [[Rural District]] of [[Yardley, Birmingham|Yardley]] and the greater part of the [[Urban District of King's Norton and Northfield]], which were absorbed into Birmingham under the Greater Birmingham Scheme on 9 November 1911.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk British History Online] [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22958 A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 7: The City of Birmingham] – Retrieved 27 May 2020</ref> Thus these areas were transferred from Worcestershire to Warwickshire. Dudley's historical status within the [[Anglican Diocese of Worcester|Diocese of Worcester]] and through its [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocratic]] links ensured that the exclave was governed on a largely autonomous basis.<ref name="Carter"/><ref>[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/ British History Online] [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/worcs/vol3 The hundred of Halfshire: Introduction and map] - Retrieved 7 May 2020; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clxv, 192.; {{Cite web |title=celtic-casimir.com |url=http://www.celtic-casimir.com/webtree/3/29136.htm |access-date=11 April 2018 |website=www.celtic-casimir.com |language=en}}</ref> Worcester was designated a [[county corporate]], and thus became separate from the rest of Worcestershire.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Worcester (England)|display=Worcester|volume=28|pages=821–822}}</ref>

===1926 boundary changes===
In 1926, [[Dudley County Borough]] council purchased several square miles of land to the north of the town centre, mostly in [[Sedgley]] ([[Staffordshire]]), including [[Dudley Castle]]. This was to build the [[Priory Estate]], a large new [[Council house|council estate]] on which construction began in 1929. The boundaries of Worcestershire were altered to include all of the proposed new housing estate in Dudley.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.localhistories.org/dudley.html |title=A History of Dudley |publisher=Localhistories.org |access-date=7 November 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121210150324/http://www.localhistories.org/dudley.html |archive-date=10 December 2012  }}</ref>

===1966–1974===
[[File:Broadway Tower 2012.jpg|thumbnail|[[Broadway Tower, Worcestershire|Broadway Tower]], one of several Worcestershire [[folly|follies]]]]During the Local Government reorganisation of April 1966, Dudley expanded beyond its historical boundaries and took in the bulk of [[Sedgley]],<ref name="Sedgley">[[Staffordshire County Council]] [http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/history/placeguide/SPGSedgley.aspx Staffordshire Place Guide – Sedgley] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405163807/https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/history/placeguide/SPGSedgley.aspx |date=5 April 2019 }} – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> [[Brierley Hill]] and the south of [[Coseley]] as well as a small section of [[Amblecote]].<ref name="Amblecote">[[Staffordshire County Council]] [http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/history/placeguide/SPGAmblecote.aspx Staffordshire Place Guide – Amblecote] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405163810/https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/history/placeguide/SPGAmblecote.aspx |date=5 April 2019 }} – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> The Local Government Act redefined its status and the [[County Borough of Dudley]] became part of Staffordshire, the county of which all of these areas had been part. At the same time, Worcestershire gained a new [[county borough]] named [[County Borough of Warley|Warley]], which was an amalgamation of [[Oldbury Urban District]], [[Rowley Regis Urban District]], the [[County Borough of Smethwick]] and parts of Dudley and [[Tipton]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Warley County Borough |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10206236&c_id=10001043 |access-date=29 July 2014 |publisher=Vision of Britain}}; West Midlands Order 1965, S.I. 1965, no. 2139, pp. 5-7, 85-6, 120, 122-3.</ref> During this reorganisation, the area of the administrative county grew only where [[Stourbridge]] took in the majority of [[Amblecote Urban District]]<ref>HM Government Legislation – The West Midland Counties Order 1965</ref> from Staffordshire and the designation of Redditch in 1964 as a [[New town|New Town]]. This in turn saw expansion into the area in and around the villages of [[Ipsley]] and [[Matchborough]] in Warwickshire. The Redditch New Town designation coincided with a considerable programme of social and private house building in [[Droitwich]], Worcester, Bromsgrove, Kidderminster and along the Birmingham boundary at [[Frankley]], [[Rubery]] and [[Rednal]].<ref>[http://www.legislation.co.uk HM Government Legislation] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1952/54/pdfs/ukpga_19520054_en.pdf Town Development Act 1952] – Retrieved 15 August 2014</ref> Frankley parish was later split into two: [[New Frankley]] and the area around [[Bartley Reservoir]] transferred from Bromsgrove District to Birmingham in April 1995; but the small village of Frankley remained in Worcestershire and became a new [[civil parish]] under the same name.

===1974–1998===
From 1974, the central and southern parts of the county were amalgamated with Herefordshire and with Worcester County Borough to form a single [[non-metropolitan county]] of [[Hereford and Worcester]].<ref>Local Government in England: Government Proposals for Reorganisation (Cmnd. 4584) Circular 8/71 map</ref> The County Boroughs of Dudley and Warley, along with Stourbridge and Halesowen, were incorporated into the new West Midlands [[Metropolitan county]].<ref>[http://www.legislation.gov.uk H.M. Government] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/70 Local Government Act 1972] – Retrieved 7 May 2020; [https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/index.html Hansard 1803–2005] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801185005/https://hansard.millbanksystems.com/ |date=1 August 2023 }} [https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1965/dec/02/local-government-west-midlands-order Local Government (West Midlands Order) Debate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928092416/http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1965/dec/02/local-government-west-midlands-order |date=28 September 2020 }} – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> The [[West Midlands County Council]] existed for only a few years before abolition in April 1986, although the West Midlands still exists as a [[ceremonial county]].<ref>[http://www.legislation.gov.uk HM Government Legislation] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/51/contents Local Government Act 1985] – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref>

===1998–present===
[[File:Arms of Worcestershire County Council.svg|thumb|253x253px|The coat of arms of Worcestershire County Council]]
In the [[1990s UK local government reform]], the county of Hereford & Worcester was abolished, and the non-metropolitan county or [[shire county]] of Worcestershire regained its historic border with Herefordshire.<ref name="HM Government Legislation">[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ HM Government Legislation] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1867/contents/made The Hereford and Worcester (Structural, Boundary and Electoral Changes) Order 1996] – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> The recreated County of Worcestershire came into existence on 1 April 1998 as an administrative and ceremonial county, although this excluded the [[Black Country]] towns of Dudley, Halesowen, Oldbury and Stourbridge (which remained part of the [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]]).<ref>[[Hansard|House of Commons Debates]] – [https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199596/cmhansrd/vo960402/text/60402w22.htm Parliamentary Business] – Retrieved 7 May 2020</ref> [[Worcestershire County Council]] was reformed, although some services are shared with the newly formed [[Herefordshire Council]],<ref name="Hereford-Worcester">[https://web.archive.org/web/20150721204542/https://www.lgbce.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/9079/str-hereford-and-worcester-final-recs-dec1994.pdf Final Recommendations for the Future Local Government of Hereford and Worcester. December 1994] – Retrieved 16 May 2013</ref> including waste management and the youth offending service.

The former Hereford and Worcester districts of Redditch, Worcester, Bromsgrove, [[Wychavon]] and [[Wyre Forest District|Wyre Forest]] were retained with little or no change. However the former Hereford and Worcester districts of [[Leominster]] and Malvern Hills straddled the reinstated border with Herefordshire, so a new Malvern Hills district was constituted which aligned with the Worcestershire's boundary to the west, south-west and north-west. The remaining parts of the former  districts of Leominster and Malvern Hills returned to Herefordshire.

===Summary of main changes===
These settlements were historically part of the county as noted above, that now fall under the counties of [[Warwickshire]], [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]] or [[Gloucestershire]].

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Civil parishes used for population reference where applicable, otherwise the source with boundaries as accurate to the locality as possible has been chosen.)<br />[[File:Red pog.svg|12px]] As of the 2021 UK census, the five largest settlements in Worcestershire. &nbsp;– Red.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://censusdata.uk/e63003490-worcester |title = Worcester Built Up Area - Population 107,545 |access-date = 23 February 2025 |website = Census Data UK }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://censusdata.uk/e63003268-redditch |title = Redditch Built Up Area - Population 85,277 |access-date = 23 February 2025 |website = Census Data UK }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://censusdata.uk/e04012638-kidderminster |title = Kidderminster Civil Parish - Population 57,414 |access-date = 23 February 2025 |website = Census Data UK }}</ref> <br /><ref>{{cite web |url = https://censusdata.uk/e63003192-bromsgrove |title = Bromsgrove Built Up Area - Population 36,537 |access-date = 23 February 2025 |website = Census Data UK }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://censusdata.uk/e04010325-malvern |title = Malvern Civil Parish - Population 30,472 |access-date = 23 February 2025 |website = Census Data UK }}</ref> <br />[[File:Orange pog.svg|12px]] Settlements which were historically in (or partially in) Worcestershire at any point before 1974 boundary changes to the county,<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol8/pp110-118?fbclid=IwY2xjawIwckJleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHaKr8-dIOMOS8zhin_-fng_Ow_tAftkC-jE_HP4rA2CmhdkLYGmsG18tQA_aem_gkgUlOqxZjN7XZNfJoAVgQ |title = The borough of Tewkesbury: Introduction |access-date = 1 March 2025 |website = British History Online }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/stourbridge.html |title = Stourbridge Registration District, Worcestershire (including Stourbridge, Halesowen, Quinton area of Birmingham) |access-date = 1 March 2025 |website = UKBMD }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/warley%20east.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawIwc9JleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHaKr8-dIOMOS8zhin_-fng_Ow_tAftkC-jE_HP4rA2CmhdkLYGmsG18tQA_aem_gkgUlOqxZjN7XZNfJoAVgQ |title = Warley East, Worcestershire (including Oldbury, Smethwick, West Bromwich, areas of Birmingham Registration District) |access-date = 1 March 2025 |website = UKBMD }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/warley%20west.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawIwdE5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHYNdA5PYH547qIC2X_sn8ncQBmGiRWwvuUgmp-flO-XOmIwXtxvR8ObGog_aem_9Khy54uZ7F6V5v33mFeWzw |title = Warley West, Worcestershire (including Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Dudley) |access-date = 1 March 2025 |website = UKBMD }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10206236?fbclid=IwY2xjawIwdl1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHatisGKJVZkUStTxPCVGxqHkMUGj7mfNNnOk9yh8wpLje2YObQG1g2WtZg_aem_AC9k257-70XMzxGTjYlP7Q |title = Warley County Borough through time: 1 acre of Brierly Hill Urban District granted to Warley Borough, 1st April 1966 |access-date = 1 March 2025 |website = Vision of Britain }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20378?fbclid=IwY2xjawIwcjxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHYIXOj3rggmrz2KQE3wEMnFxOZ8BQe5dkOQCgbpugjwJxBY2xAGA4cQDbA_aem_DDy2aSmPoUVXVmK4vEXGuA |title = Netherton, Worcestershire |access-date = 1 March 2025 |website = Vision of Britain }}</ref> which as of the 2021 UK census had a population of 9000 or more. &nbsp;– Orange.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://censusdata.uk/e63002904-birmingham |title = Birmingham Built Up Area - 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| mark-coord7     = {{coord|52.4794478|-1.8968582}}
| mark-title7      = [[Birmingham]]
| label-pos7     = right

| label8           = Dudley
| shape-color8     = orange
| mark-coord8     = {{coord|52.5082484|-2.0772314}}
| mark-title8      = [[Dudley, West Midlands|Dudley]]
| label-pos8     = left|ldy8=-3

| label9           = West Bromwich (part)
| shape-color9     = orange
| mark-coord9     = {{coord|52.5172655|-1.990242}}
| mark-title9      = [[West Bromwich#20th century]]
| label-pos9     = northeast|ldx9=-3

| label10           = Oldbury
| shape-color10     = orange
| mark-coord10     = {{coord|52.5039644|-2.0185232}}
| mark-title10      = [[Oldbury, West Midlands|Oldbury]]
| label-pos10     = top, with-line,2|ldy10=-12| ldx10=-20

| label11           = Stourbridge
| shape-color11     = orange
| mark-coord11     = {{coord|52.4563559|-2.1447158}}
| mark-title11      = [[Stourbridge]]
| label-pos11     = left|ldy11=4

| label12           = Rowley Regis
| shape-color12     = orange
| mark-coord12     = {{coord|52.4773829|-2.0559669}}
| mark-title12      = [[Rowley Regis]]
| label-pos12     = right,with-line,2|ldx12=8|ldy12=14

| label13           = Halesowen
| shape-color13     = orange
| mark-coord13     = {{coord|52.447954|-2.0528769}}
| mark-title13      = [[Halesowen]]
| label-pos13     = southeast |ldy13=4

| label14           = Smethwick
| shape-color14     = orange
| mark-coord14     = {{coord|52.4970217|-1.9716811}}
| mark-title14      = [[Smethwick]]
| label-pos14     = right|ldy14=-7|ldx14=1

| label15           = Netherton
| shape-color15     = orange
| mark-coord15     = {{coord|52.4899669|-2.0847416}}
| mark-title15      = [[Netherton, West Midlands|Netherton]]
| label-pos15     = left

| label16           = Quarry Bank (part)
| shape-color16     = orange
| mark-coord16     = {{coord|52.4731875|-2.0996761}}
| mark-title16      = [[Quarry Bank#History]]
| label-pos16     = left
}}