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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 county's boundaries largely followed three rivers: the Thames in the south, the Lea to the east and the Colne to the west. A line of hills formed its northern boundary with Hertfordshire. The county was the second smallest of the historic counties of England, after Rutland.
The county of Sussex is also wholly outside, and Berkshire almost wholly outside, the route of the M25 motorway, which is often treated as an unofficial perimeter of Greater London, and some definitions mention that those counties are not always included amongst the home counties, [11] or that the term has been extended to include them.
This is a list of civil parishes in England split by ceremonial county (see map below). The civil parish is the lowest level of local government in England . Northumberland
Odney is a common in the Thames, part of the civil parish of Cookham, in the English county of Berkshire, and occupies most of the Formosa Island eyot.The island may have been sacred to the main Saxon god, Woden; the common's name originates from the Old English "Wodenes-Eye" ("Woden's Isle").
Rank County Total population Region 1: Greater London: 8,901,000: London 2: West Midlands: 2,910,000: West Midlands: 3: Greater Manchester: 2,824,000: North West
A Thamesside metropolitan county, covering areas of north Kent and south Essex on the Thames Estuary (and now considered part of the Thames Gateway) was also proposed. [7] The metropolitan counties were created by the Local Government Act 1972. The county councils were first elected in 1973, and were formally established in April 1974.
At least two Emergency Thames Bridges were erected as a precaution against destructions during World War II. The first was built from Victoria Embankment to County Hall, London in 1942 [31] before being demolished in 1948. [32] Between the same years stood another, between Millbank outside the Tate Britain and Lambeth. [33] [34]