Which is the most easterly of the five boroughs that make up the metropolitan county of Merseyside?
Merseyside county's districts contain some portion of belt. Ipsos MORI polls in the boroughs of Sefton and Wirral in the 2000s showed that in general, residents of these boroughs identified slightly more strongly to Merseyside than to Lancashire or Cheshire respectively, but their affinity to Merseyside was more likely to be "fairly strong" than "very strong". Merseyside contains the metropolitan boroughs of Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral. Despite the abolition of the county council some local services are still run on a county-wide basis, now administered by joint-boards of the five metropolitan boroughs; these include the: The Liverpool City
Metropolitan boroughs of the County of London Law and they were amalgamated over time to become aligned with the boroughs. In 1965 the County of London was abolished by the London Government Act 1963 and replaced with the much larger Greater London. The 28 metropolitan boroughs were also abolished and merged to create 12 of the 32 larger London boroughs and are also known as Inner London boroughs. They were the following: † Not a metropolitan borough. Metropolitan boroughs of the County of London The term metropolitan borough was used from 1900 to 1965, for the subdivisions of the County of London and were created by the