The East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley was a

local government district The districts of England (also known as local authority districts or local government districts to distinguish from unofficial city districts) are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government. As the st ...

and

borough A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely. History In the Middle A ...

Humberside Humberside () was a Non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in Northern England from 1 April 1974 until 1 April 1996. It was composed of land from either side of the Humber Estuary, create ...

, England, from 1974 to 1996. It was formed on 1 April 1974, by the merger of the previous borough of

Beverley Beverley is a market and minster town and a civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, of which it is the county town. The town centre is located south-east of York's centre and north-west of City of Hull. The town is known fo ...

, with

Beverley Rural District Beverley was a rural district in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1894 to 1974. The district surrounded but did not include Beverley, which formed a municipal borough. The district was created by the Local Government Act 1894. It pic ...

and

Haltemprice Urban District Haltemprice is an area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, directly to the west of Kingston upon Hull, Hull. Originally an extra-parochial area, it became a civil parish in 1858, in 1935 it was expanded by the combination of the urban dist ...

. Initially named ''Beverley'', the name was formally changed by the council to ''East Yorkshire Borough of Beverley'' in 1981. On 1 April 1996, Humberside was abolished along with the borough, and the area become part of a unitary

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to t ...

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Populated places established in 1974 Populated places disestablished in 1996 Former non-metropolitan districts of Humberside Beverley Former boroughs in England {{EastRiding-geo-stub