county boroughnoun [ C ]
/ˌkaʊn.ti ˈbʌr.ə//ˌkaʊn.ti ˈbɝː.oʊ/in Wales, and in the past in England and Northern Ireland, a town that has its own local government:
Caerphilly is a town in the county borough of Caerphilly, in south Wales.
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- Some hope that the large towns of England might one day regain their "county borough" status, leaving the county councils free to pursue their former traditional, more rural, role.
- At the end of the nineteenth century there were fifty-eight county councils and eighty-two county boroughs in England and Wales.
- Towns were governed as county boroughs with the surrounding area administered by a county council.
- Bridgend County Borough Council, in South Wales, took the restaurant to court for environmental health failures.
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