Thanks, Stan & Garry, for your informative replies. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: <Stanmapstone@aol.com> To: <ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 10:43 PM Subject: Re: [SUNDERLAND] County of Sunderland? > Hi Mike, Sunderland was created a Parliamentary Borough by the 1832 Reform > Act, and a County Borough by the 1835 Municipal Corporation Act, which took it > out of the control of Durham County Council. > The correct term should be 'in the County Borough of Sunderland and the > County of Durham.' But I suppose it was much easier to write 'in the Counties of > Sunderland and Durham', especially if you were doing it many times a day. > Monkwearmouth and Monkwearmouth Shore were always in the County Borough, but > Southwick was not included until 1928, although it was in the Parliamentary > Borough. > > The original borough boundary was intended to be the 1832 parliamentary > constituency boundary, but it was reduced, north of the river to Monkwearmouth and > Monkwearmouth Shore. South of the river to an area enclosed by a circular line > with a radius of one mile from the centre of Wearmouth bridge. > > Regards Stan Mapstone > > > ==== ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND Mailing List ==== > To contact the List Owner send mail to, > ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-admin@lists5.rootsweb.com >