Municipal borough
There were boroughs in England and Wales since the middle ages.   In 1833 a  Royal Commission investigated them. 263 towns in England and Wales had some form of corporation.  The Municipal Corporations Act 1835  reformed the government of towns.  It set up municipal boroughs. They each had an elected town council, with a mayor, aldermen and councillors. To vote in the elections voters had to own property in the area. The councillors were directly elected for a three-year term,  If  there were more than 6,000 people the area was divided into wards with separate elections held in each ward each year. There were then 178 municipal boroughs.