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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.
When a county borough expanded into territory of a county that was not the one it came from, maps sometimes showed this as an increase in size of the county which the county borough was associated with. Monmouthshire, not shown on the map, was reckoned for some legal purposes among the English counties for most of this period.
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% Geographic limits: West: 6.75°W; East: 2.0°E; North: 56.0°N; South: 49.75°N; Changes since the 2021 version: New unitary authority areas: Cumberland
Subdivisions of England; Subdivisions of England (as of 1 April 2023) that have a principal local authority: two-tier non-metropolitan counties and their non-metropolitan districts; metropolitan boroughs; unitary authorities; London boroughs; and the sui generis City of London and Isles of Scilly.
The counties of the United Kingdom are subnational divisions of the United Kingdom, used for the purposes of administrative, geographical and political demarcation. The older term, shire is historically equivalent to county. By the Middle Ages, county had become established as the unit of local government, at least in England. [1]
As the English county boundaries had remained essentially unchanged since the eleventh century, [16] the list can thus be seen to represent the "original" locations of the English county tripoints. During the nineteenth century a number of laws, most notably the Counties Act of 1844 , resulted in the relocation of some sections of historic ...
The county has formed the upper tier of local government over much of the United Kingdom at one time or another, [1] and has been used for a variety of other purposes, such as for Lord Lieutenants, land registration and postal delivery. This list of 184 counties is split by constituent country, time period and purpose.
The Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series maps were produced from the 1840s to the 1890s by the Ordnance Survey, with revisions published until the 1940s.The series mapped the counties of Great Britain at both a six inch and twenty-five inch scale with accompanying acreage and land use information.