Place:Blyth Valley District, Northumberland, England

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NameBlyth Valley District
TypeDistrict municipality
Coordinates55.127°N 1.523°W
Located inNorthumberland, England     (1974 - 2009)
See alsoBlyth, Northumberland, England
Seaton Valley, Northumberland, England
Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England
In Northumberland the Local Government Act 1972 which came into being on 1 April 1974 had two effects.
  • It created the new metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear to which Newcastle upon Tyne and Tynemouth were transferred.
  • It introduced a pattern of two-tier government to the non-metropolitan county that covered the remaining county of Northumberland. The lower level of government was in the hands of a series of "district councils" or district municipalities, each of which covered a group of municipal boroughs, urban and rural districts in existence until that time. These district councils were abolished in 2008 and today Northumberland is a unitary authority.
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The Blyth Valley District (#1 on map) was a local government district and borough in southeast Northumberland, England, bordering the North Sea and Tyne and Wear. The two principal towns were Blyth and Cramlington. Other population centres include Seaton Delaval, and Seaton Sluice (which was formerly the civil parish of Hartley).

The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the borough of Blyth, Seaton Valley urban district, and part of the borough of Whitley Bay.

The district council was abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England effective from 1 April 2009 with responsibilities being transferred to Northumberland County Council, a unitary authority.

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