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 | | The County of Hereford and Worcester was an English administrative county created by the Local Government Act, 1974 from the former administrative counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. |
 | | The county was unpopular, especially among people from Herefordshire, who due to the disparity of sizes of the populations (Worcestershire: 550,000 (2001), Herefordshire: 170,000 (2001)), saw it as a takeover rather than a merger. |
 | | After a short life of 24 years, it was abolished on April 1, 1998 by The Hereford and Worcester (Structural, Boundary and Electoral Changes) Order 1996 - SI 1996/1867, and split into new administrative counties Herefordshire and Worcestershire, which did not have had the same boundaries as the former administrative counties. |
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