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The counties of England are a type of subdivision of England.Counties have been used as administrative areas in England since Anglo-Saxon times. There are three definitions of county in England: the 48 ceremonial counties used for the purposes of lieutenancy; the 84 metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties for local government; [a] and the 39 historic counties.
English: Map showing the Regions of England and the constituent metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties from 1 April 2023. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 170%
The result of {{England Ceremonial Counties Labelled Map|WMsuffix=(county)|Londonprefix=Greater}} Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] This template displays a labelled map of the ceremonial counties of England (or their historical equivalents), with each county name linked to a Wikipedia article or category associated ...
Monmouthshire, not shown on the map, was reckoned for some legal purposes among the English counties for most of this period. The 1888 Act did not contain a list of administrative counties: it was not until 1933 and the passing of a new Local Government Act that they were enumerated in the Act's schedule. Unlike the 1888 Act, the 1933 Act did ...
At the highest level, all of England is divided into nine regions that are each made up of a number of counties and districts. These "government office regions" were created in 1994, [ 12 ] and from the 1999 Euro-elections up until the UK's exit from the EU, they were used as the European Parliament constituencies in the United Kingdom and in ...
English: Map showing the metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England, intended to take effect from 1 April 2023. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 170% Geographic limits:
The counties marked in italics below are neither ceremonial nor historic. The list does not include the 61 county boroughs (1889–1974) or the 18 counties corporate (before 1889), each of which was an administrative county for a single town or city, within a larger "county-at-large".
An 1824 map of the English and Welsh counties. Although all of England was divided into shires by the time of the Norman conquest, some counties were formed later, such as Lancashire in the 12th century. Perhaps because of their differing origins the counties varied considerably in size.