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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.
- the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia
The Wansbeck District (#2 on map) was a local government district in southeast Northumberland, England. Its main population centres were Ashington, Bedlington and Newbiggin by the Sea.
The area which was bounded by the district is mostly urban, on the North Sea coast north of the Tyneside conurbation. It bordered the Blyth Valley District to the south, the border being the River Blyth. It was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, by the merger of the urban districts of Ashington, Bedlingtonshire and Newbiggin by the Sea. It is named after the River Wansbeck.
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.
Map Source: Wikimedia Commons
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