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Area | Proclamation | Privy council | Charter |
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Town and parish of Ramsgate[1] | January 28, 1837 | February 28, 1837 | Refused. (Town granted a charter under the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 on March 21, 1884)[2] |
Town of Devonport and parish of Stoke Dameral[1] | January 28, 1837 | February 28, 1837 | 20 October 1837[3] |
(Unreformed) Borough of Llanelly[1] | January 28, 1837 | February 28, 1837 | Refused. Unreformed borough continued to exist until 1886. (Town granted a charter under the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 in 1913) |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Birmingham[4] | December 11, 1837 | January 31, 1838 | October 31, 1838[5] |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Chatham[6] | December 20, 1837 | January 31, 1837 | Refused. (Town granted a charter under the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 on November 22, 1890)[7] |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Bolton[8] | February 1, 1838 | March 5, 1838 | October 11, 1838 |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Sheffield[8] | February 1, 1838 | March 5, 1838 | Refused. Made second application in 1841. |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Manchester[9] | March 21, 1838 | May 31, 1838 | October 23, 1838[10] |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Tynemouth[11] | June 23, 1841 | August 13, 1841 | Refused. Made second application in 1849. |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Sheffield[11] | June 23, 1841 | August 13, 1841 | August 31, 1843[12] |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Huddersfield[11] | June 23, 1841 | August 13, 1841 | Refused. (Eventually incorporated in 1868) |
(Parliamentary) Borough of South Shields[11] | June 23, 1841 | August 13, 1841 | Refused. (Eventually incorporated in 1850) |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Salford[13] | June 10, 1843 | July 24, 1843 | April 16, 1844[14] |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Bradford[15] | February 3, 1845 | March 10, 1845 | Refused. Made a second application in 1847. |
(Unreformed) Borough of Honiton[16] | February 19, 1846 | June 24, 1846 | 1846 |
(Unreformed) Borough of Yeovil[16] | February 19, 1846 | June 24, 1846 | Refused. (Eventually incorporated following the promotion of private act of parliament in passed July 3, 1854)[17] [18] |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Warrington[19] | July 6, 1846 | August 11, 1846 | April 3, 1847[20] |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Bradford[21] | February 4, 1847 | March 3, 1847 | April 24, 1847 |
Town and (Parliamentary) Borough of Ashton-under-Lyne[22] | April 29, 1847 | May 21, 1847 | September 29, 1847[23] |
Such part of the (Parliamentary) Borough of Wolverhampton as lies in the township of Wolverhampton[24] | June 17, 1847 | July 22, 1847 | March 15, 1848 |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Halifax[24] | June 17, 1847 | July 22, 1847 | 1848 |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Wakefield[25] | July 22, 1847 | August 28, 1847 | March 15, 1848[26] |
Parliamentary Borough of Oldham[27] | December 16, 1848 | January 20, 1849 | June 13, 1849[28] |
Parliamentary Borough of Tynemouth[29] | January 15, 1849 | February 20, 1849 | August 6, 1849 |
Hartlepool[30] | June 19, 1850 | July 22, 1850 | December 5, 1850[31] |
South Shields[30] | June 19, 1850 | July 22, 1850 | 1850 |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Blackburn[32] | February 3, 1851 | March 10, 1851 | August 28, 1851[33] |
Town of Brighton[34] | May 15, 1852 | June 21, 1852 | Refused. made second application in 1853. |
Town of Middlesbrough[34] | May 15, 1852 | June 21, 1852 | January 21, 1853[35] |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Brighton[36] | June 13, 1853 | July 16, 1853 | January 19, 1854[37] |
(Unreformed) Borough of Aberavon[36] | June 13, 1853 | July 16, 1853 | Refused. Made second application in 1859. |
Town and Parliamentary Borough of Rochdale[38] | January 30, 1856 | March 3, 1856 | September 1856[39] |
Town of Stalybridge[38] | January 30, 1856 | March 3, 1856 | March 5, 1857[40] |
Town of Margate[41] | February 25, 1856 | March 31, 1856 | July 29, 1857 |
Town of Hanley and Shelton in the Staffordshire Potteries[42] | June 24, 1856 | July 28, 1856 | May 22, 1857[43] |
Town of Wrexham | 28 November 1856[44] [45] [46] | 5 January 1857.. 13 May 1857[47] [46] | September 23, 1857[48] |
(Unreformed) Borough of Aberavon[49] | September 23, 1859 | November 5, 1859 | July 2, 1861[50] |
(Parliamentary) Borough of Burnley[51] | November 23, 1860 | January 10, 1861 | October 24, 1861[52] |
(Unreformed) Borough of Hedon | 1861[53] | ||
Township of Dewsbury[54] | April 16, 1861 | May 29, 1861 | April 11, 1862[55] |
Parliamentary Borough of Reigate[56] | August 30, 1862 | October 14, 1862 | 1863 |
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