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Chapman codes have no mapping, postal or administrative use. They can however be useful for disambiguation by postal services where a full county name or traditional abbreviation is not supplied after a place name which has more than one occurrence, a particular problem where these are post towns such as Richmond.
ISO 3166-2:GB is the entry for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GBNI) in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal divisions and subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1. [1]
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.
This is a list of ceremonial counties in England by gross value added for the year 2021. Data is gathered by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and is given in terms of Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS), statistical area codes used for the European Union, which loosely follow administrative units of the United Kingdom.
Postcode areas shown with former postal counties. This is a list of postcode districts in the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies.A group of postcode districts with the same alphabetical prefix is called a postcode area.
Administrative county (1889–1974) Chapman code: WES: Government: Westmorland County Council (1889-1974) ... In June 1994, during the 1990s UK local government ...
Chapman code: KCD. Website: https://www.kincardineshirelieutenancy.co.uk/ Kincardineshire or the County of Kincardine, also known as the Mearns ...
Six Metropolitan two-tiered areas were created in 1974, similar to the Greater London model. These county-tier councils had extra devolved powers to others. In 1986, the county-tier was abolished with the London boroughs, Metropolitan boroughs and combined boards remaining. Apart from status these boroughs have the same powers to unitary ...