It was suggested that the new metropolitan borough be named Makerfield.

Solihull also became the first metropolitan borough with a Conservative majority since the mid-1990s.

The other counties or metropolitan boroughs do not: being completely comprehensive.

The metropolitan boroughs also vary in size with a minimum near 200,000.

Stockport is the largest settlement in the metropolitan borough of the same name.

It now forms an unparished area within the metropolitan borough.

It is now bordered by settlements which are also part of the metropolitan borough.

The twenty-eight metropolitan boroughs came into existence on 1 November 1900.

Since 1992 it has had the status of a city and metropolitan borough.

Cambridge Heath formed part of this metropolitan borough from 1900 to 1965.