In message , at 18:56:49 on Thu, 31 Dec
2009, Tim Roll-Pickering remarked:
Furthermore AIUI prior to the 1970s shake-up a lot of county councils met in
county halls located in county boroughs that were outside their
jurisdiction - e.g. Cumberland in Carlisle, Devon in Exeter, Lincolnshire in
Lincoln, Norfolk in Norwich and so forth.

Nottinghamshire County Council has recently narrowly avoided the same
fate. Their main building is on the south bank of the Trent (in
Rushcliffe/West Bridgford), and so didn't end up in the Unitary City of
Nottingham in 1998.
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Roland Perry