After 1868 there were very few extra-parochial areas left; those remaining were mostly islands, such as Lundy, which did not have a neighbouring parish into which they could be absorbed.
Parishes were not allowed in Greater London until the passing of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (which allows their formation in the London boroughs)[2] and it remained entirely unparished from 1965 until Queen's Park was created in 2014.
[3] Some cities and towns which are unparished areas in larger districts (i.e. not districts of themselves) have charter trustees to maintain a historic charter, such as city status (an example being in Bath) or simply the mayoralty of a town.
The ceremonial counties of Cornwall (apart from Wolf Rock), Herefordshire, Isle of Wight, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Rutland, Shropshire, and Wiltshire are entirely parished.
This is a list of unparished areas as they existed on 1 April 1974, noting changes which have happened since then to create the current geography in the table above.