Unparished area Totally Explained

Everything about Unparished Area totally explained

In England, an unparished area is an area that isn't covered by a civil parish. Most urbanised districts of England are either entirely or partly unparished. In some cases a largely rural district will have one or two unparished areas in it (such as in Shrewsbury and Atcham). Some unparished areas have Charter Trustees to maintain a historic charter, such as City status (an example being in Bath) or simply the mayoralty of a town.
Unparished areas were created in 1974 in areas that were formerly urban districts or municipal boroughs that didn't become successor parishes. Parishes are not allowed in Greater London and so it's entirely unparished.

List of unparished areas

This is a list of unparished areas as they existed on April 1, 1974. Many parishes have been created since then. Note that the list doesn't contain parishes which existed on that date.

Avon

District	Unparished area	Parished?
Bath	all (former county borough of Bath)	district became part of Bath and North East Somerset district in 1996, still unparished, with Charter Trustees
Bristol	all (former county borough of Bristol)	still unparished
Kingswood	all (former urban districts of Kingswood and Mangotsfield	became part of South Gloucestershire district in 1996, still unparished
Northavon	none
Wansdyke	former urban district of Keynsham	1991
Woodspring (North Somerset)	former borough of Weston-super-Mare	2000

Bedfordshire

District	Unparished area	Parished?
Bedford (North Bedfordshire)	former borough of Bedford	still unparished
Luton	all (former county borough of Luton)	still unparished
Mid Bedfordshire	none
South Bedfordshire	former borough of Dunstable	1985

Berkshire

District	Unparished area	Parished
Bracknell (Bracknell Forest)	none
Newbury (West Berkshire)	former borough of Newbury	1997
Reading	all (former county borough of Reading)	still unparished
Slough	former borough of Slough	still unparished (a Colnbrook with Poyle parish has been created in territory taken from South Bucks and Spelthorne)
Wokingham	none
Windsor and Maidenhead	former boroughs of Maidenhead and New Windsor	still unparished

Buckinghamshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Aylesbury Vale	former borough of Aylesbury	2000
Beaconsfield (South Bucks)	none
Chiltern	none
Milton Keynes	former urban districts of Bletchley, Newport Pagnell and Wolverton	2001, as Bletchley and Fenny Stratford, Calverton, Central Milton Keynes, Kents Hill, Monkston and Brinklow, New Bradwell, Newport Pagnell, Stony Stratford, Wolverton and Greenleys
Wycombe	former borough of High Wycombe

Cambridgeshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Cambridge	all (former borough of Cambridge)
East Cambridgeshire	none
Fenland	former urban district of Whittlesey
Huntingdon (Huntingdonshire)	none
Peterborough	former borough of Peterborough and urban district of Old Fletton
South Cambridgeshire	none

Cheshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Chester	former county borough of Chester
Congleton	former borough of Congleton	yes
Crewe and Nantwich	former borough of Crewe
Ellesmere Port (Ellesmere Port and Neston)	former borough of Ellesmere Port and urban district of Neston	parish of Ince created
Halton	former borough of Widnes and urban district of Runcorn
Macclesfield	former borough of Macclesfield and urban district of Wilmslow
Vale Royal	none
Warrington	former borough of Warrington

Cleveland

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Hartlepool	former county borough of Hartlepool
Middlesbrough	all (part of the former county borough of Teesside)
Langbaurgh (Redcar and Cleveland)	part of the former county borough of Teesside, the former urban district of Skelton and Brotton
Stockton-on-Tees	part of the former county borough of Teesside

Cornwall

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Caradon	none
Carrick	none
Kerrier	former urban district of Camborne-Redruth	Parished as separate parishes of Camborne, Illogan and Redruth in 1985
North Cornwall	none
Penwith	former borough of Penzance	1980
Restormel	former borough of St. Austell with Fowey, urban district of Newquay	Newquay parished in 1979, part of St Austell with Fowey parished (as Fowey, St Blaise and Tywardreath and Par); remainder still unparished

Cumbria

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Allerdale	former borough of Workington	yes
Barrow-in-Furness	former county borough of Barrow-in-Furness
Carlisle	former county borough of Carlisle	still unparished
Copeland	former borough of Whitehaven	still unparished
Eden	former urban district of Penrith	still unparished
South Lakeland	none

Derbyshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Amber Valley	former urban districts of Alfreton and Heanor	yes
Bolsover	none
Chesterfield	former borough of Chesterfield
Derby	all (former county borough of Derby)
Erewash	former borough of Ilkeston and urban district of Long Eaton
High Peak	former boroughs of Buxton and Glossop
North East Derbyshire	none
South Derbyshire	former urban district of Swadlincote
West Derbyshire (Derbyshire Dales)	former urban district of Matlock	yes

Devon

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
East Devon	former urban district of Exmouth	1996
Exeter	all (former county borough of Exeter)
North Devon	Lundy Island
Plymouth	all (former county borough of Plymouth)
South Hams	none
Teignbridge	none
Tiverton (Mid Devon)	none
Torbay	former borough of Torquay and urban district of Paignton
	former urban district of Brixham	2007
Torridge	none
West Devon	none

Dorset

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Bournemouth	all (former county borough of Bournemouth)
Christchurch	former borough of Christchurch
East Dorset	none
North Dorset	none
Poole	all (former borough of Poole)
Purbeck	none
West Dorset	none
Weymouth and Portland	former borough of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis

Durham

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Chester-le-Street	former urban district of Chester-le-Street	still unparished
Darlington	former county borough of Darlington	still unparished
Durham	former borough of Durham and Framwellgate	still unparished
Derwentside	former urban districts of Consett and Stanley	new Burnhope parish?
Easington	former urban district of Seaham	entirely parished now
Sedgefield	none
Teesdale	none
Wear Valley	former urban districts of Bishop Auckland and Crook and Willington	some parishing

East Sussex

District	Unparished areas	Parished
Brighton	all (former county borough of Brighton)	Rottingdean parish formed
Eastbourne	all (former county borough of Eastbourne)	still unparished
Hastings	all (former county borough of Hastings)	still unparished
Hove	all (former borough of Hove and urban district of Portslade-by-Sea)	still unparished
Lewes	former urban district of Seaford	1999
Rother	former borough of Bexhill	still unparished, Charter Trustees
Wealden	none

Essex

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Basildon	all (former urban district of Basildon)	Billericay
Braintree	former urban districts of Braintree and Bocking, Halstead and Witham
Brentwood	former urban district of Brentwood	still unparished
Castle Point	all (former urban districts of Benfleet and Canvey Island)	Thundersley, South Benfleet, Canvey Island, Hadleigh
Chelmsford	former borough of Chelmsford
Colchester	former borough of Colchester
Epping Forest	former urban district of Chigwell
Harlow	all (former urban district of Harlow)
Maldon	former urban district of Maldon
Rochford	former urban district of Rayleigh
Southend-on-Sea	former county borough of Southend-on-Sea
Tendring	former urban district of Clacton
Thurrock	all (former urban district of Thurrock)
Uttlesford	none

Gloucestershire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Cotswold	none
Cheltenham	all (former borough of Cheltenham and urban district of Charlton Kings)	various parishes formed since
Forest of Dean	none
Gloucester	all (former county borough of Gloucester)
Stroud	former urban district of Stroud
Tewkesbury	none

Greater Manchester

District	Unparished areas	Parished
Bolton	the former county borough of Bolton, borough of Farnworth, urban districts of Kearsley, Little Lever, South Turton	the former urban districts of Blackrod, Horwich, Westhoughton
Bury	all (former county borough of Bury, boroughs of Prestwich and Radcliffe, urban districts of Tottington, Whitefield, part Ramsbottom)
Manchester	the former county borough of Manchester
Oldham	former county borough of Oldham, urban districts of Chadderton, Failsworth, Lees	Shaw and Crompton parish formed in 1987
Rochdale	all (former county borough of Rochdale, boroughs of Heywood and Middleton, urban districts of Littleborough, Milnrow and Wardle)
Salford	all (former county borough of Salford, boroughs of Eccles and Swinton and Pendlebury, urban districts of Irlam and Worsley
Stockport	all (former county borough of Stockport, urban districts of Bredbury and Romiley, Cheadle and Gatley, Hazel Grove and Bramhall and Marple	Offerton Estate parish formed in 2002
Tameside	all (former boroughs of Ashton-under-Lyne, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley, Stalybridge, urban districts of Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden and Longdendale	Mossley parish formed in 1999
Trafford	former boroughs of Altrincham, Sale, Stretford, urban districts of Bowdon, Hale, Urmston
Wigan	former county borough of Wigan, borough of Leigh, urban districts of Abram, Aspull, Ashton-in-Makerfield (part), Atherton, Billinge-and-Winstanley (part), Golborne (part), Hindley, Ince-in-Makerfield, Orrell, Standish-with-Langtree and Tyldesley,

Hampshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Basingstoke and Deane	former borough of Basingstoke
Eastleigh	former borough of Eastleigh
East Hampshire	none
Fareham	former urban district of Fareham
Gosport	all (former borough of Gosport)
Hart	former urban district of Fleet
Havant	all (former urban district of Havant and Waterloo)
New Forest	former borough of Lymington	parished 1979 as four parishes
Portsmouth	all (former county borough of Portsmouth)	Southsea parish formed in 1999, still mostly unparished
Rushmoor	all (former borough of Aldershot and urban district of Farnborough)
Southampton	all (former county borough of Southampton)	still unparished
Test Valley	former borough of Andover
Winchester	former borough of Winchester

Hereford and Worcester

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Bromsgrove	former urban district of Bromsgrove
Hereford	all (former City of Hereford)	Hereford district abolished 1998, parished 2000
Leominster	none
Malvern Hills	former urban district of Malvern	?
Redditch	all (former urban district of Redditch)
South Herefordshire	none
Worcester	former borough of Worcester
Wychavon	none
Wyre Forest	former borough of Kidderminster

Hertfordshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Broxbourne	all (former urban districts of Cheshunt and Hoddesdon)	still unparished
Dacorum	former borough of Hemel Hempstead	still unparished
East Hertfordshire	none
Hertsmere	former urban districts of Bushey and Potters Bar	still unparished
North Hertfordshire	former urban districts of Baldock, Hitchin, Letchworth	Letchworth parished 2005, Baldock and Hitchin still unparished
St Albans	former borough of St Albans	still unparished
Stevenage	all (former urban district of Stevenage)	still unparished
Three Rivers	former urban district of Rickmansworth	still unparished
Watford	former borough of Watford	still unparished
Welwyn Hatfield	former urban district of Welwyn Garden City	still unparished

Humberside

District	Unparished areas	Parished
Beverley	former borough of Beverley	1999
Beverley	former urban district of Haltemprice	1999 (Cottingham) and 2000 (Anlaby with Anlaby Common, Kirk Ella and West Ella and Willerby)
Boothferry	former borough of Goole	?
Cleethorpes	former borough of Cleethorpes	still unparished
Glanford	none
Grimsby	all (former county borough of Grimsby)	still unparished
Holderness	former urban district of Withernsea	?
Hull	all (former county borough of Hull)	still unparished
North Wolds	former borough of Bridlington	2000
North Wolds	former urban district of Driffield	?
Scunthorpe	all (former borough of Scunthorpe)	still unparished

Isle of Wight

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Medina	former boroughs of Newport and Ryde, urban district of Cowes	East Cowes parish now exists
South Wight	former urban district of Sandown-Shanklin

Kent

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Ashford	former urban district of Ashford
Canterbury	former county borough of Canterbury and urban districts of Herne Bay and Whitstable
Dartford	former borough of Dartford
Dover	former boroughs of Deal and Dover	1996 (Deal, Dover and Walmer parishes)
Gillingham	all (former borough of Gillingham)
Gravesham	former borough of Gravesend and urban district of Northfleet
Maidstone	former borough of Maidstone
Medway (Rochester upon Medway)	former boroughs of Chatham, Rochester
Sevenoaks	none
Swale	former borough of Queenborough-in-Sheppey and urban district of Sittingbourne and Milton
Shepway	former borough of Folkestone	2004
Thanet	former boroughs of Margate and Ramsgate
Tonbridge and Malling	former urban district of Tonbridge
Tunbridge Wells	former borough of Royal Tunbridge Wells

Lancashire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Blackburn (Blackburn with Darwen)	former county borough of Blackburn, borough of Darwen
Blackpool	former county borough of Blackpool
Burnley	former county borough of Burnley, urban district of Padiham
Chorley	former borough of Chorley
Fylde	former borough of Lytham St. Anne's
Hyndburn	former borough of Accrington, urban districts of Church, Clayton-le-Moors, Great Harwood, Oswaldtwistle and Rishton
Lancaster	former borough of Lancaster and Morecambe and Heysham
Pendle	former boroughs of Colne and Nelson, urban districts of Barrowford, Barnoldswick, Brierfield, Earby, Trawden
Preston	former county borough of Preston, urban district of Fulwood
Ribble Valley	none
Rossendale	former boroughs of Bacup, Haslingden, Rawtenstall, urban district of Ramsbottom (part)
South Ribble	former urban districts of Leyland and Walton-le-Dale
West Lancashire	former urban districts of Ormskirk and Skelmersdale and Holland
Wyre	former borough of Fleetwood, urban districts of Poulton-le-Fylde and Thornton Cleveleys

Leicestershire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Blaby	none
Charnwood	former borough of Loughborough	still unparished
Charnwood	former urban district of Shepshed	parished
Harborough	former urban district of Market Harborough	still unparished
Hinckley and Bosworth	former urban district of Hinckley	partly (Burbage, Earl Shilton, Stoke Golding), core Hinckley still unparished
Leicester	all (former county borough of Leicester)	still unparished
Melton	former urban district of Melton Mowbray	still unparished
North West Leicestershire	former urban district of Coalville	Ellistown and Battleflat created from part of former Coalville UD, otherwise remains unparished
Oadby and Wigston	all (former urban districts of Oadby and Wigston)	still unparished
Rutland	none

Lincolnshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Boston	former borough of Boston
East Lindsey	none
Lincoln	all (former county borough of Lincoln)
North Kesteven	none
South Holland	none
South Kesteven	former borough of Grantham
West Lindsey	former urban district of Gainsborough	?

Merseyside

District	Unparished areas	Parished
Knowsley	former urban districts of Huyton-with-Roby, Kirkby and Prescot
Liverpool	all (former county borough of Liverpool)	still unparished
St Helens	former county borough of St Helens, urban districts of Haydock and Newton-le-Willows
Sefton	former county boroughs of Bootle and Southport, borough of Crosby, urban districts of Formby and Litherland	Formby, Hightown, Little Altcar and Lydiate parishes now exist
Wirral	all (former county boroughs of Birkenhead and Wallasey, borough of Bebington, urban districts of Hoylake and Wirral)	still unparished

Norfolk

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Breckland	none
Broadland	none
Great Yarmouth	former county borough of Great Yarmouth
North Norfolk	none
Norwich	all (former county borough of Norwich)
South Norfolk	none
West Norfolk (King's Lynn and West Norfolk)	former borough of King's Lynn

North Yorkshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Craven	none
Hambleton	none
Harrogate	former borough of Harrogate
Richmondshire	none
Ryedale	none
Selby	none
Scarborough	former borough of Scarborough
York	all (former county borough of York)	added parishes in Ryedale, Selby and Hambleton districts in 1996, original area still unparished

Northamptonshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Corby	former urban district of Corby	still unparished
Daventry	former borough of Daventry	2003
East Northamptonshire	former urban district of Rushden	yes
Kettering	former borough of Kettering	still unparished
Northampton	former county borough of Northampton
South Northamptonshire	former urban district of Towcester	yes
Wellingborough	former urban district of Wellingborough	still unparished

Northumberland

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Alnwick	none
Berwick-upon-Tweed	former borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed	still unparished
Blyth Valley	all (former borough of Blyth, part of Whitley Bay, part of urban district of Seaton Valley)	still unparished
Castle Morpeth	former borough of Morpeth	yes
Tynedale	none
Wansbeck	all (former urban districts of Ashington, Bedlingtonshire and Newbiggin-by-the-Sea)	still unparished

Nottinghamshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Ashfield	former urban districts of Hucknall, Kirkby in Ashfield and Sutton in Ashfield	still unparished
Bassetlaw	former boroughs of East Retford and Worksop	still unparished
Broxtowe	former urban district of Beeston and Stapleford	Stapleford parished in 1987, Beeston area still unparished
Gedling	former urban districts of Arnold and Carlton	still unparished
Mansfield	former borough of Mansfield and urban district of Mansfield Woodhouse	still unparished
Newark (Newark and Sherwood)	former borough of Newark	yes (1976?)
Nottingham	all (former county borough of Nottingham)	still unparished
Rushcliffe	former urban district of West Bridgford	still unparished

Oxfordshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Cherwell	former borough of Banbury	2000
Oxford	all (former county borough of Oxford)	majority still unparished: four parishes formed: Blackbird Leys (1990), Littlemore, Old Marston, Risinghurst and Sandhills
South Oxfordshire	none
Vale of White Horse	none
West Oxfordshire	none

Salop (Shropshire)

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Bridgnorth	none
North Shropshire	none
Oswestry	none
Shrewsbury and Atcham	former borough of Shrewsbury	still unparished
Wrekin (Telford and Wrekin)	former urban districts of Dawley, Oakengates and Wellington	now entirely parished

Somerset

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Mendip	none
Sedgemoor	former borough of Bridgwater	2003
Taunton Deane	former borough of Taunton
West Somerset	former urban district of Minehead
Yeovil (South Somerset)	former borough of Yeovil

South Yorkshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Barnsley	former county borough of Barnsley, urban districts of Cudworth, Darfield, Darton, Dearne, Dodworth, Hoyland Nether, Royston, Wombwell and Worsborough
Doncaster	former county borough of Doncaster, urban districts of Adwick-le-Street, Bentley with Arksey, Conisbrough and Mexborough
Rotherham	former county borough of Rotherham, urban districts of Maltby, Rawmarsh, Swinton and Wath upon Dearne	Maltby parished 2000
Sheffield	former county borough of Sheffield	still unparished

Staffordshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Cannock Chase	former urban districts of Cannock and Rugeley	Rugeley and Hednesford now parished
East Staffordshire	former county borough of Burton upon Trent	2003, to various parishes
Lichfield	former borough of Lichfield	1980
Newcastle-under-Lyme	former borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme
South Staffordshire	none
Stafford	former borough of Stafford
Staffordshire Moorlands	none
Stoke-on-Trent	all (former county borough of Stoke-on-Trent)
Tamworth	all (former borough of Tamworth)

Suffolk

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Babergh	none
Ipswich	all (former county borough of Ipswich)	still unparished
Mid Suffolk	none
Forest Heath	former urban district of Newmarket	parished in 1999 as Newmarket and Exning
St Edmundsbury	former borough of Bury St Edmunds and urban district of Haverhill	Haverhill in 1989, Bury St Edmunds in 2003
Suffolk Coastal	none
Waveney	former borough of Lowestoft	still unparished

Surrey

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Elmbridge	all (former urban districts of Esher and Walton and Weybridge)	one parish (Claygate) created in 2000
Epsom and Ewell	all (former borough of Epsom and Ewell)
Guildford	former borough of Guildford
Mole Valley	former urban districts of Dorking and Leatherhead
Reigate and Banstead	former borough of Reigate and urban district of Banstead
Runnymede	all (former urban districts of Chertsey and Egham)	still unparished
Spelthorne	all (former urban districts of Staines and Sunbury)	still unparished
Surrey Heath	former urban districts of Frimley and Camberley	still unparished
Tandridge	former urban district of Caterham and Warlingham	entirely parished in 2000
Waverley	former urban district of Farnham	parished
Woking	former urban district of Woking	Byfleet parish created in 1989

Tyne and Wear

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Gateshead	former county borough of Gateshead, urban districts of Blaydon, Felling, Ryton and Whickham	still unparished. parish of Birtley became unparished in 2006
Newcastle upon Tyne	former county borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, urban districts of Gosforth and Newburn	a Blakelaw and North Fenham parish set up in 2001, rest remains unparished
North Tyneside	all (former county borough of Tynemouth, boroughs of Wallsend and Whitley Bay (part), urban districts of Longbenton, Seaton Valley (part))	still unparished
South Tyneside	all (former county borough of South Shields, borough of Jarrow, urban districts of Boldon and Hebburn)	still unparished
Sunderland	former county borough of Sunderland, urban districts of Houghton-le-Spring and Washington	still unparished

Warwickshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
North Warwickshire	none
Nuneaton (Nuneaton and Bedworth)	all (former borough of Nuneaton, urban district of Bedworth)
Rugby	former borough of Rugby
Stratford-on-Avon	none
Warwick	former borough of Royal Leamington Spa	2002

West Midlands

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Birmingham	all (former county borough of Birmingham and borough of Sutton Coldfield)	New Frankley parish created in 2000 from land prior to 1995 in Bromsgrove district
Coventry	former county borough of Coventry	still unparished
Dudley	all (former county borough of Dudley and boroughs of Halesowen and Stourbridge	still unparished
Sandwell	all (former county boroughs of West Bromwich and Warley)	still unparished
Solihull	former county borough of Solihull	still unparished
Walsall	all (former county borough of Walsall and urban district of Aldridge-Brownhills)
Wolverhampton	all (former county borough of Wolverhampton)	still unparished

West Sussex

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Adur	former urban districts of Shoreham-by-Sea and Southwick	both parished
Arun	former urban districts of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton	both parished
Chichester	none
Crawley	all
Horsham	former urban district of Horsham	still unparished
Mid Sussex	former urban district of Cuckfield	Cuckfield parished
Worthing	all (former borough of Worthing)	still unparished

West Yorkshire

District	Unparished areas	Parished?
Bradford	former county borough of Bradford, borough of Keighley, urban districts of Baildon, Bingley and Shipley, Queensbury and Shelf (part)	various parts parished in 2000s
Calderdale	former county borough of Halifax, borough of Brighouse, urban districts of Elland and