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  2. Poll tax (Great Britain) - Wikipedia

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    A leaflet explaining the Community Charge (the so-called "poll tax"), Department of the Environment, April 1989. The Community Charge, commonly known as the poll tax, was a system of local taxation introduced by Margaret Thatcher's government whereby each taxpayer was taxed the same fixed sum (a "poll tax" or "head tax"), with the precise amount being set by each local authority.

  3. Administrative counties of England - Wikipedia

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    In 1888 the government, led by the Tory prime minister Lord Salisbury established county councils throughout England and Wales, covering areas known as administrative counties. Many larger towns and cities were given the status of county borough , with similar powers and independent of county council control.

  4. Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series - Wikipedia

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    The Ordnance Survey began producing six inch to the mile (1:10,560) maps of Great Britain in the 1840s, modelled on its first large-scale maps of Ireland from the mid-1830s. This was partly in response to the Tithe Commutation Act 1836 which led to calls for a large-scale survey of England and Wales.

  5. Extra-statutory concession - Wikipedia

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    An extra-statutory concession (or ESC) is a concept under United Kingdom tax law whereby HM Revenue and Customs grants certain concessions to taxpayers to mitigate their tax liabilities even though the relevant allowances would not strictly be allowed under the terms of the tax legislation.

  6. Subdivisions of England - Wikipedia

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    At the highest level, all of England is divided into nine regions that are each made up of a number of counties and districts. These "government office regions" were created in 1994, [ 12 ] and from the 1999 Euro-elections up until the UK's exit from the EU, they were used as the European Parliament constituencies in the United Kingdom and in ...

  7. Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 - Wikipedia

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    The Concessionary Bus Travel Act 2007 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which entitles all people resident in England who are either disabled or over the age of 60 to free travel on local buses at off-peak times anywhere within England (transport being a devolved matter and therefore within the purview of the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly ...

  8. Passenger transport executive - Wikipedia

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    Local government in England was re-organised in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972.The re-organisation created the six metropolitan counties, and the existing four English PTEs were named after, and made to match the borders of the new counties (for example West Midlands PTE was expanded to take on Coventry and Tyneside PTE expanded to include Sunderland becoming Tyne and Wear PTE in the ...

  9. English land law - Wikipedia

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    The area of land in England and Wales is 151,174 km 2 (58,368 mi 2), while the United Kingdom is 243,610 km 2. By 2013, 82 per cent was formally registered at HM Land Registry . [ 1 ] In 2010, over a third of the UK was owned by 1,200 families descended from aristocracy , and 15,354 km 2 was owned by the top three land owners, the Forestry ...