Wirral Urban District

Wirral was an urban district in Cheshire, England from 1933 to 1974. It was created from part of the disbanded Wirral Rural District and covered an area in the south-west of the Wirral Peninsula. The district covered the areas of Barnston, Gayton, Heswall cum Oldfield, Irby, Pensby, and Thurstaston.

Wirral
History
  Created1933
  Abolished1974
  Succeeded byMetropolitan Borough of Wirral
Statusurban district

On 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, it was abolished and its area became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral of the metropolitan county of Merseyside.

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