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Northern Gas Board

former UK state-owed utility

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ137882792 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Northern Gas Board was a state-owned utility area gas board providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in Durham, Northumberland and parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and the North Riding of Yorkshire.

It was established on 1 May 1949 under the terms of the Gas Act 1948, and dissolved in 1973 when it became a region of the newly formed British Gas Corporation, British Gas Northern, as a result of the Gas Act 1972.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Northern Gas Board” as former UK state-owed utility. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949, 1948, 1973, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Northern, Board and former can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as former UK state-owed utility. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137882792. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1949, 1948, 1973 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Northern Gas Board” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.