Local government in England and Wales
Since local government is concerned with the exercise of particular functions in particular areas, the areas used for local government purposes are an important feature. The three principal traditional areas used to-day are the parish, the county and the borough.
The parish in urban districts and boroughs has ceased to be a unit of local government, but in rural districts the parish is an area for rating and is an administrative area with its own form of democratic local authority the Parish Meeting or the Parish Council.
The county is not a unit for local government properly so called. It is an area for the administration of justice.
The judicial functions of a county have been conferred upon certain boroughs and towns by royal charter.
The term borough has been long known to English history as a unit of local administration. Nowadays there are three types of borough in the local government sense. There are county boroughs which include the largest towns and cities and are self-contained administrative units. There are other boroughs, including the smaller towns and cities and are not entirely self-contained. And there are boroughs which have the right to send a member or members to Parliament. A borough which had this privilege is a "parliamentary borough". Nowadays a parliamentary borough is not always coincident with the area of a borough for local government purposes.
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