Ceremonial counties of England

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The ceremonial counties of England ( English ceremonial counties ) are territorial units in England , the one Lord Lieutenant , the personal representative of the British are assigned monarch. The assignment of the individual administrative districts to the 48 ceremonial counties was established by the government in the Lieutenancies Act 1997 . The ceremonial counties are frequently used as geographical names and therefore occasionally geographical counties (Engl. Geographic counties ) called. They are to be distinguished from the traditional counties of England .

Today's breakdown

Frankreich Irland Isle of Man Schottland Nordirland Wales City of London Greater London Surrey Buckinghamshire Berkshire Kent Essex Hertfordshire Suffolk Norfolk Lincolnshire Rutland Cambridgeshire Bedfordshire East Sussex West Sussex Isle of Wight Hampshire Dorset Devon Cornwall Bristol Somerset Wiltshire Gloucestershire Leicestershire Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Herefordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire West Midlands Shropshire Staffordshire Nottinghamshire Derbyshire Cheshire Merseyside Greater Manchester South Yorkshire East Riding of Yorkshire West Yorkshire Lancashire North Yorkshire Cumbria Northumberland Tyne and Wear County Durham
Present-day division of the ceremonial counties of England
  1. Northumberland
  2. Tyne and Wear
  3. Durham , including Darlington , Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees (as far as north of the tea )
  4. Cumbria
  5. Lancashire , including Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool
  6. North Yorkshire , including York , Middlesbrough , Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees (as far south of the tea )
  7. East Riding of Yorkshire , including Hull
  8. South Yorkshire
  9. West Yorkshire
  10. Greater Manchester
  11. Merseyside
  12. Cheshire , consisting of Cheshire East , Cheshire West and Chester , Halton and Warrington
  13. Derbyshire , including Derby
  14. Nottinghamshire
  15. Lincolnshire , including North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire
  16. Rutland
  17. Leicestershire , including Leicester
  18. Staffordshire , including Stoke-on-Trent
  19. Shropshire , including Telford and Wrekin
  20. Herefordshire
  21. Worcestershire
  22. West Midlands
  23. Warwickshire
  24. Northamptonshire
  25. Cambridgeshire , including Peterborough
  26. Norfolk
  27. Suffolk
  28. Essex , including Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock
  29. Hertfordshire
  30. Bedfordshire , consisting of Bedford , Central Bedfordshire and Luton
  31. Buckinghamshire , including Milton Keynes
  32. Oxfordshire
  33. Gloucestershire , including South Gloucestershire
  34. Bristol
  35. Somerset , including Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset
  36. Wiltshire , including Swindon
  37. Berkshire
  38. Greater London , excluding the City of London
  39. Kent , including Medway
  40. East Sussex , including Brighton and Hove
  41. West Sussex
  42. Surrey
  43. Hampshire , including Southampton and Portsmouth
  44. Isle of Wight
  45. Dorset , including Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
  46. Devon , including Plymouth and Torbay
  47. Cornwall , including the Isles of Scilly
  48. City of London

history

The ceremonial counties before the formation of Greater London in 1965 (excluding small county boroughs)

When in 1888 the current system of traditional counties was changed by counties Councils (Engl. County councils ) were set up and the system of administrative counties was built, the assignment of the areas was in England at the Lord Lieutenant, until then essentially conformed to the traditional counties (an exception being Bristol , for example , which had had a Lord Lieutenant for centuries), reformed. The new division combined the administrative counties and county boroughs into areas similar to those of the traditional counties. For example, the ceremonial county of Leicestershire was formed from the administrative counties of Leicestershire and the county borough of Leicester. Areas that were divided into several sub-areas (e.g. Suffolk in West Suffolk and East Suffolk ) were combined into a single ceremonial county. The ceremonial counties thus established after 1888 continued to be essentially the same as those that existed before 1888.

With the exception of minor border changes, these ceremonial counties existed until 1965. With the formation of Greater London that year , the office of Lord Lieutenant in Middlesex was abolished. In addition, the administrative county of Huntingdon and Peterborough was newly formed; however, this change was not reflected in the ceremonial counties.

Ceremonial counties from 1974 to 1996

In 1974 the county boroughs were dissolved as administrative units and the system of administrative counties was fundamentally reformed. At the same time, the design of the ceremonial counties was changed to match the administrative counties.

In 1990, some of the administrative counties that were newly formed in 1974 were dissolved again. These areas were either assigned to the existing ceremonial counties or grouped into new:

In 1997, Rutland's status as a ceremonial county was restored.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lieutenancies Act 1997