Place:Berwick upon Tweed District, Northumberland, England

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NameBerwick upon Tweed District
TypeDistrict municipality
Coordinates55.77°N 2°W
Located inNorthumberland, England     (1974 - 2009)
See alsoBerwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, Englandmunicipal borough absorbed in 1974
Belford Rural, Northumberland, Englandrural district absorbed in 1974
Glendale Rural, Northumberland, Englandrural district absorbed in 1974
Norham and Islandshires Rural, Northumberland, Englandrural district absorbed in 1974

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 Berwick-upon-Tweed District (#6 on map) was a local government district and borough in Northumberland in the northeast of England, on the border with Scotland. The district had a resident population of 25,949 according to the 2001 census. It was also the smallest district in England with borough status, and the third-least densely populated local government district (after Eden and Tynedale).

Its main town is Berwick upon Tweed, sited immediately to the north of the Tweed estuary. The town is ancient, the scene of a number of battles; it has perhaps the best remaining example of a (almost completely intact) town wall, built for defensive purposes.

On the south of the estuary, the port of Tweedmouth is the point of export of diverse goods, but especially grain and roadstone. The remainder of the borough is rural, bordered to the west by the Cheviot Hills, and to the east by a scenic coastline.

The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the previous borough of Berwick upon Tweed with Belford Rural District, Glendale Rural District and Norham and Islandshires Rural District.

The district 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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