Shaw's Local Government Directory 2002/03

The purpose of this directory is to provide information for the authorities, solicitors and many others whose work brings them in contact with local authorities. The book gives the names, postal and Document Exchange addresses, and telephone and fax numbers of the authorities, listing principal offices and other main offices. Entries in the directory are designed to make it easy to find the department and the person with responsibility for a specific function. Included are Electoral Registration Officers who themselves find this book, and the gazetteer of places in particular, invaluable for their work with rolling registration. Full details of all the new authorities are given, together with cross-referencing to enable the user to identify which new authorities have taken over from those that have been disbanded. The book also lists the parish councils, parish meetings and town councils within each authority's area, and includes a substantial gazetteer of nearly 20,000 places, showing the authority within which each falls.