the administrative county's name (and therefore the council's name) to Hampshire from 1 April 1959. The power to change the name of urban and rural districts and of civil parishes remained with the county council under the Local Government Act 1894. Special review areas The five special review areas consisted of major conurbations outside London: Tyneside, West Yorkshire, South East Lancashire, Merseyside and the West Midlands. A full review was only carried out in the West Midlands when much of the review area was incorporated into five large county boroughs. Later legislation was to reform local government areas and services in these areas. Several police forces in the review areas were combined under the Police Act 1964, the Transport Act 1968 created transport authorities for four of the areas and all of the review areas were eventually to form the nucleus of metropolitan counties in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. The Commission requested in 1963 that the Merseyside and Selnec special review areas be extended such that they touched in the middle, thus including Warrington, St Helens and Wigan. The then government delayed a decision on the issue: new local government Minister Tony Crosland decided in April 1965 to allow modest expansions. Tyneside The county boroughs of Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, South Shields and Tynemouth Part of County Durham, namely: the municipal borough of Jarrow, and the urban districts of Blaydon, Felling, Hebburn, Ryton and Whickham Part of Northumberland, namely: the municipal boroughs of Wallsend and Whitley Bay, and the urban districts of Gosforth, Longbenton and Newburn. These areas (except part of Whitley Bay) were all eventually included in the larger metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear (which also included the Sunderland area on Wearside) in 1974. West Yorkshire The county boroughs of Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield Part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, namely: the municipal boroughs of Batley, Brighouse, Castleford, Keighley, Morley, Ossett, Pontefract, Pudsey and Spenborough, and the urban districts of Aireborough, Baildon, Bingley, Colne Valley, Denby Dale, Denholme, Elland, Featherstone, Heckmondwike, Holmfirth, Horbury, Horsforth, Kirkburton, Knottingley, Meltham, Mirfield, Normanton, Queensbury and Shelf, Ripponden, Rothwell, Shipley, Sowerby Bridge and Stanley. In 1974 this area formed the core of the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, which also included some outlying rural areas and towns. South East Lancashire The county boroughs of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford and Stockport Part of Cheshire, namely: