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Boards of improvement commissioners were ad hoc urban local government boards created during the 18th and 19th centuries in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its predecessors the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland. Around 300 boards were created, each by a local act of Parliament, typically termed an improvement act. The powers of the boards varied according to the acts which created them. They often included street paving, cleansing, lighting, providing watchmen or dealing with various public nuisances. Those with restricted powers might be called lighting commissioners, paving commissioners, police commissioners, etc.

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Note for table: 'ICD' stands for improvement commissioners district. Pre-1848 Post-1848 Converted into urban districts in 1894 By 1894 many earlier bodies of improvement commissioners had been replaced by local boards or borough corporations. There were 30 towns across England and Wales where the improvement commissioners were still the primary form of local government, acting as the urban sanitary authority. These districts, all converted into urban districts under the Local Government Act 1894, were:{{cite book |series=Sessional Papers |volume=HC 1893–94 lxxvii (437) 461 |date=6 November 1893 |title=Return showing [...] the Urban Sanitary Districts of England and Wales, arranged according to Administrative Counties, with their Areas and Population, and the Nature of their Local Government whether Municipal Borough, Improvement Act District, or Local Government District [...] |publisher=HMSO |location=London |pages=6–14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQBHAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA6 • AbergavennyBethesdaBilstonBingleyBradford-on-AvonCreditonDownham MarketFleetwoodHoveKingtonKnaresboroughLeekLlandudnoLythamMaryportMilford HavenMilton-next-SittingbourneNewton-in-MakerfieldOundleRhylRoss-on-WyeRuncornSpaldingStourbridgeSurbitonWalton-on-the-NazeWantageWells-next-the-SeaWellingtonWhittlesey ==Sources==
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