List of courts in England and Wales

This is a list of Courts in England and Wales. For information about the different types of Courts see Courts of England and Wales.

Civil Courts

The Highest Court of Appeal is the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords, followed by the Court of Appeal. The Highest Court in which originating process may be issued is the High Court of England and Wales. The High Court has several district registries as well as the Central Office located at the Royal Courts of Justice.

District Registries of the High Court

England

*Bedford
*Birkenhead
*Birmingham
*Bradford
*Bristol
*Canterbury
*Chester
*Colchester
*Croydon
*Dewsbury
*Halifax
*Leeds
*Leicester
*Lincoln
*Liverpool
*Manchester
*Newcastle upon Tyne
*Norwich
*Nottingham
*Scarborough
*Sheffield
*Southampton
*Teesside (In Middlesbrough)
*Weymouth and Dorchester
*Worksop

Wales

*Aberystwyth
*Blackwood
*Brecknock
*Bridgend
*Caernarfon
*Cardiff
*Carmarthen
*Haverfordwest
*Llangefni
*Merthyr Tydfil
*Mold
*Pontypridd
*Rhyl
*Swansea
*Welshpool

County Courts

When the county court system was created as a result of the County Courts Act 1846, there were 491 county courts in England and Wales. As of 2008, there are now 217 county courts, including the Patents County Court.

Criminal Courts

Crown Courts

*Aylesbury
*Basildon Combined Court
*Birmingham
*Blackfriars
*Bolton Combined Court Centre
*Bournemouth
*Bradford
*Bristol
*Burnley Combined Court Centre
*Bury St Edmunds
*Caernarfon
*Cambridge
*Canterbury Combined Court Centre
*Cardiff
*Carlisle Combined Court Centre
*Central Criminal Court - Old Bailey
*Chelmsford
*Chester
*Chichester Combined Court Centre
*Coventry Combined Court Centre
*Croydon
*Derby Combined Court Centre
*Dolgellau
*Doncaster
*Dorchester
*Durham
*Exeter Combined Court Centre
*Gloucester
*Great Grimsby Combined Court Centre
*Guildford
*Harrow
*Hereford
*Huntingdon Combined Court Centre (Crown - annex of Peterborough Crown Court / County / Magistrates' Court)
*Inner London
*Ipswich
*Isleworth
*King's Lynn
*Kingston-upon-Hull Combined Court Centre
*Kingston-upon-Thames
*Knutsford
*Lancaster
*Leeds Combined Court Centre
*Leicester
*Lewes at Lewes Combined Court Centre
*Lincoln
*Liverpool Combined Court Centre
*Luton
*Maidstone at Maidstone Combined Court Centre
*Manchester (Crown Square)
*Manchester (Minshull St)
*Merthyr Tydfil - closed in Summer 2007 for building work [http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/cardiff-news/2007/07/19/all-rise-for-closure-91466-19479208/]
*Middlesex Guildhall - closed in April 2007 to be renovated as the Supreme Court
*Mold
*Newcastle upon Tyne Combined Court Centre
*Newport (Isle of Wight)
*Newport (South Wales)
*Norwich Combined Court Centre
*Nottingham
*Oxford Combined Court Centre
*Peterborough Combined Court Centre
*Plymouth Combined Court
*Portsmouth Combined Court Centre
*Preston Combined Court Centre
*Reading
*Salisbury
*Sheffield Combined Court Centre
*Shrewsbury
*Snaresbrook
*Southampton Combined Court Centre
*Southend
*Southwark
*St Albans
*Stafford Combined Court Centre
*Stoke-on-Trent Combined Court
*Swansea
*Swindon Combined Court
*Taunton
*Teesside Combined Court Centre
*Truro Combined Court Centre
*Warrington Combined Court Centre
*Warwick Combined Court Centre
*Welshpool
*Weymouth and Dorchester Combined Court Centre
*Winchester Combined Court Centre
*Wolverhampton Combined Court Centre
*Wood Green
*Woolwich
*Worcester Combined Court
*York

Magistrates' Courts

See: local justice areas.

*Aberdare
*Abergavenny
*Accrington
*Acton
*Aldershot
*Alnwick
*Alton
*Amersham
*Andover
*Ashford
*Aylesbury
*Banbury
*Bangor
*Barking and Dagenham
*Barnet
*Barnsley
*Barnstaple
*Barrow-in-Furness
*Barry
*Basildon
*Basingstoke
*Batley and Dewsbury
*Bath
*Bedford and Mid Beds
*Belmarsh
*Berwick upon Tweed
*Beverley
*Bexley
*Bicester
*Bingley
*Birmingham
*Bishop Auckland
*Blackburn
*Blackpool
*Blandford Forum
*Bodmin
*Bolton
*Boston
*Bourne
*Bournemouth
*Bow Street Magistrates' Court
*Bracknell
*Bradford
*Brent
*Brentford
*Bridgend
*Bridgnorth and Telford
*Bridgwater
*Bridlington
*Bridport
*Brighton
*Bristol
*Bromley
*Bromsgrove and Redditch
*Burnley
*Burton upon Trent
*Bury
*Bury St Edmunds
*Caernarfon
*Caerphilly
*Caistor
*Camberwell Green
*Camborne
*Cambridge
*Cannock
*Canterbury
*Cardiff
*Carlisle
*Carmarthen
*Ceredigion
*Chatham
*Chelmsford
*Cheltenham
*Chepstow
*Cheshunt
*Chester, Ellesmere Port and Neston
*Chester-le-Street
*Chichester
*Chippenham
*Chorley
*Cirencester
*City of London
*Coalville
*Colchester
*Coleford
*Consett
*Corby
*Coventry
*Crawley
*Cromer
*Croydon
*Cullompton
*Cwmbran
*Darlington
*Dartford
*Daventry
*De Brycheiniog
*De Maldwyn
*Denbigh
*Didcot
*Dolgellay
*Doncaster
*Dorking
*Dover
*Dudley
*Durham
*Ealing
*East Berkshire
*Eastbourne
*Ely
*Enfield
*Epping
*Exeter
*Fareham
*Feltham
*Flax Bourton
*Fleetwood
*Flint
*Folkestone
*Furness
*Gainsborough
*Gateshead
*High Peak
*Gloucester
*Goole
*Grantham
*Grays
*Great Yarmouth
*Greenwich
*Grimsby
*Guildford
*Guisborough
*Halesowen
*Halifax
*Halton
*Haringey
*Harlow
*Harrogate
*Harrogate and Skipton
*Harrow
*Hartlepool
*Harwich
*Hastings
*Hemel Hempstead
*Hendon
*Hereford Magistrates Court
*Hertford
*High Wycombe
*Highbury Corner
*Hinckley
*Holyhead
*Honiton
*Horncastle
*Horseferry Road Magistrates' Court
*Horsham
*Houghton-le-Spring
*Huddersfield
*Hull and Holderness
*Huntingdon
*Ilkeston
*Ipswich
*Isles of Scilly
*Keighley
*Kendal
*Kettering
*Kidderminster Magistrates Court
*King's Lynn
*Kingston-upon-Hull
*Kingston-upon-Thames
*Knowsley
*Lancaster
*Launceston
*Leamington Spa
*Leeds District
*Leicester
*Leigh and Wigan
*Lewes
*Leyland
*Lincoln
*Liskeard
*Liverpool
*Llandudno
*Llanelli
*Llangefni
*Llwynypia
*Long Sutton
*Loughborough
*Louth
*Lowestoft
*Ludlow
*Luton and South Bedfordshire
*Lyndhurst
*Macclesfield
*Maidenhead (East Berkshire)
*Maidstone
*Manchester City
*Mansfield
*Margate
*Market Drayton
*Market Harborough
*Marylebone Road
*Medway
*Melton Mowbray
*Mendip
*Merthyr Tydfil
*Mid Sussex
*Middlesbrough
*Mildenhall
*Milton Keynes
*Minehead
*Mold
*Neath
*Newark and Southwell
*Newbury West Berkshire
*Newcastle under Lyme
*Newcastle upon Tyne
*Newport (Isle of Wight)
*Newport
*Newton Abbot
*Newton Aycliffe
*North Avon
*North East Derbyshire & Dales
*North Pembrokeshire
*North Sefton
*North Tyneside
*Northallerton and Richmond
*Northampton
*Norwich
*Nottingham
*Nuneaton
*Okehampton
*Oldham
*Ormskirk
*Oswestry
*Oxford and Southern Oxfordshire
*Penrith
*Pentonville
*Penzance
*Peterborough
*Peterlee
*Pickering
*Plymouth
*Pontefract
*Pontypridd
*Poole
*Port Talbot
*Portsmouth
*Prestatyn
*Preston
*Pwllheli
*Radnorshire and North Brecknock
*Rawtenstall
*Reading
*Redbridge
*Redditch Magistrates Court
*Redhill
*Reedley
*Retford
*Richmond-upon-Thames
*Rochdale
*Rotherham
*Rugby
*Runcorn
*Salford
*Salisbury
*Scarborough
*Scunthorpe
*Sedgemoor
*Selby
*Sevenoaks
*Sheffield
*Sherborne
*Shrewsbury
*Sittingbourne
*Skegness
*Sleaford
*Snaresbrook
*Solihull
*South Cheshire
*South East Northumberland
*South Pembrokeshire
*South Sefton
*South Somerset
*South Tyneside
*South Western
*South Worcestershire
*Southampton
*Southend
*Southern Derbyshire
*Southport
*Spalding
*St Albans
*St Helens
*Stafford
*Staines
*Stamford
*Stevenage
*Stockport
*Stoke-on-Trent
*Stourbridge and Halesowen
*Stratford
*Stratford upon Avon
*Stroud
*Sudbury
*Sunderland
*Sutton Coldfield
*Sutton
*Swaffham (Central Norfolk)
*Swansea
*Swindon
*Tameside
*Tamworth
*Taunton Dean
*Teesside
*Telford
*Tewkesbury
*Thames
*Thetford (South Norfolk)
*Torquay
*Totnes
*Towcester
*Tower Bridge
*Trafford
*Tredegar
*Truro
*Tunbridge Wells
*Tynedale
*Uxbridge
*Vale of Glamorgan
*Vale Royal
*Wakefield
*Walsall and Aldridge
*Waltham Forest
*Wantage
*Wareham
*Warley (Oldbury)
*Warrington
*Watford
*Wellingborough
*Wells
*Welshpool
*West Berkshire
*West Bromwich
*West London
*West Somerset
*Weston-super-Mare
*Wetherby
*Weymouth
*Whitby
*Whitehaven
*Widnes
*Wigan and Leigh
*Wimbledon
*Wimborne
*Wirral
*Wisbech
*Witham
*Witney
*Woking
*Wolverhampton
*Woodspring
*Woolwich
*Worcester Magistrates Court
*Workington
*Worksop and Retford
*Worthing
*Wrexham
*Wycombe
*Yate
*Yeovil
*York

ee also

*Her Majesty's Courts Service