50°36′40″N 2°27′11″W / 50.611°N 2.453°W Weymouth and Melcombe Regis was a borough in England. It was formed by a charter of Elizabeth I, amalgamating the towns of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in 1571.
Parliamentary representation
editThe towns continued to send the same number of MPs to the unreformed House of Commons as they had before the merger - two for each. The borough was stripped of its double representation by the Reform Act 1832, which reduced it to two seats, and then was remodelled by the Municipal Reform Act 1835. It ceased to be a parliamentary borough from 1885. Since then, the area covered by the borough has formed part of the South Dorset constituency.
After 1885
editThe borough continued in existence, as a municipal borough until 1974, when it was merged, under the Local Government Act 1972, into the district of Weymouth and Portland.
External links
edit- Weymouth & Melcombe Regis Local History Archived 30 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
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