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| If you are in any doubt as to the proper county name or where it is then pay a visit to Genuki. Primarily a genealogy web site, the site clearly defines boundaries that confuse even the locals... England - changes of 1965/1974 Historic County Abbrev. CCC Administration up to 1974 (London 1965) Successor Counties Bedfordshire Beds BDF Bedfordshire Luton (C) Bedfordshire Berkshire Berks BRK Berkshire Reading (C) Berkshire Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire Bucks BKM Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire Berkshire Cambridgeshire Cambs CAM Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely Cambridgeshire Cheshire CHS Cheshire Birkenhead (C) Chester (C) Stockport (C) Wallasey (C) Cheshire Greater Manchester (MC) Merseyside (MC) Derbyshire Cornwall (1) Corn CON Cornwall Cornwall Cumberland CUL Cumberland Carlisle (C) Cumbria Derbyshire Derbys DBY Derbyshire Derby (C) Derbyshire Devon DEV Devon Exeter (C) Plymouth (C) Torbay (C) Devon Dorset DOR Dorset Poole (C) Dorset County Durham DUR County Durham Darlington (C) Gateshead (C) Hartlepool 1967-74 (C) South Shields (C) Sunderland (C) Teesside 1968-74 (C) West Hartlepool until 1967 (C) County Durham Tyne and Wear (MC) Cleveland Essex ESS Essex East Ham (C) Southend (C) West Ham (C) Essex Greater London Gloucestershire Glos GLS Gloucestershire Bristol (C) Gloucester (C) Gloucestershire Avon Hampshire Hants (2) HAM Hampshire Bournemouth (C) Portsmouth (C) Southampton (C) Hampshire Dorset Isle of Wight Isle of Wight Herefordshire HEF Herefordshire Hereford and Worcester Hertfordshire Herts HRT Hertfordshire Hertfordshire Greater London Huntingdonshire Hunts HUN Huntingdonshire and Peterborough Cambridgeshire Kent KEN Kent Canterbury (C) Kent Greater London Lancashire Lancs LAN Lancashire Barrow-in-Furness (C) Blackburn (C) Blackpool (C) Bolton (C) Bootle (C) Burnley (C) Bury (C) Liverpool (C) Manchester (C) Oldham (C) Preston (C) Rochdale (C) St Helens (C) Salford (C) Southport (C) Warrington (C) Wigan (C) Lancashire Greater Manchester (MC) Merseyside (MC) Cheshire Cumbria Leicestershire Leics LEI Leicestershire Leicester (C) Leicestershire Lincolnshire Lincs LIN Lincolnshire (Holland) Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (Kesteven) Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (Lindsey) Grimsby (C) Lincoln (C) Lincolnshire Humberside London LND London Greater London Middlesex Middx MDX Middlesex Greater London Norfolk NFK Norfolk Norwich (C) Yarmouth (C) Norfolk Northamptonshire Northants NTH Northamptonshire Northampton (C) Northamptonshire Northumberland Northumb NBL Northumberland Berwick-upon-Tweed (C) Newcastle-upon-Tyne (C) Tynemouth (C) Northumberland Tyne and Wear (MC) Nottinghamshire Notts NTT Nottinghamshire Nottingham (C) Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire (MC) Oxfordshire Oxon (3) OXF Oxfordshire Oxford (C) Oxfordshire Rutland RUT Rutland Leicestershire Shropshire Salop (4) SAL Shropshire Shropshire Somerset SOM Somerset Bath (C) Bristol (C) Somerset Avon Staffordshire Staffs STS Staffordshire Burton-upon-Trent (C) Dudley (C) Stoke-on-Trent (C) Walsall (C) West Bromwich (C) Wolverhampton (C) Staffordshire West Midlands (MC) Suffolk SFK Suffolk (East) Ipswich (C) Suffolk Norfolk Suffolk (West) Suffolk Surrey SRY Surrey Croydon (C) Surrey West Sussex Greater London Sussex SSX Sussex (East) Brighton (C) Eastbourne (C) Hastings (C) East Sussex West Sussex Sussex (West) West Sussex Warwickshire Warks WAR Warwickshire Birmingham (C) Coventry (C) Solihull (C) Warwickshire West Midlands (MC) Westmorland WES Westmorland Cumbria Wiltshire Wilts WIL Wiltshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Worcs WOR Worcestershire Dudley (C) Warley (C) Worcester (C) Hereford and Worcester West Midlands (MC) Yorkshire Yorks YKS Yorkshire (East Riding) ERY Kingston-upon-Hull (C) Humberside North Yorkshire Yorkshire (North Riding) NRY Middlesbrough until 1968 (C) Teesside 1968-74 (C) North Yorkshire Cleveland Durham Yorkshire (West Riding) WRY Barnsley (C) Bradford (C) Dewsbury (C) Doncaster (C) Halifax (C) Huddersfield (C) Leeds (C) Rotherham (C) Sheffield (C) Wakefield (C) West Yorkshire (MC) Greater Manchester (MC) South Yorkshire (MC) Cumbria Humberside Lancashire North Yorkshire York (C) North Yorkshire The links in the following table are to maps provided by the Department of the Environment. England - changes of 1986-1998 Counties 1974-1986/1998 CCC Year Successor Counties and Unitary Authorities Avon AVN 1996 Bristol (U) North Somerset (U) Bath and North East Somerset (U) South Gloucestershire (U) Bedfordshire BDF 1997 Bedfordshire Luton (U) Berkshire BRK 1998 Bracknell Forest (U) West Berkshire (U) Reading (U) Slough (U) Windsor and Maidenhead (U) Wokingham (U) Buckinghamshire BKM 1997 Buckinghamshire Milton Keynes (U) Cambridgeshire CAM 1998 Cambridgeshire Peterborough (U) Cheshire CHS 1998 Cheshire Halton (U) Warrington (U) Cleveland CLV 1996 Hartlepool (U) Middlesbrough (U) Redcar and Cleveland (U) Stockton-on-Tees (U) Cornwall (1) CON -- Cornwall Cumbria CMA -- Cumbria Derbyshire DBY 1997 Derbyshire Derby City (U) Devon DEV 1998 Devon Plymouth (U) Torbay (U) Dorset DOR 1997 Dorset Bournemouth (U) Poole (U) County Durham DUR 1997 County Durham Darlington (U) East Sussex SXE 1997 East Sussex Brighton and Hove (U) Essex ESS 1998 Essex Southend (U) Thurrock (U) Gloucestershire GLS --- Gloucestershire Greater London 1986 Barking and Dagenham (L) Barnet (L) Bexley (L) Brent (L) Bromley (L) Camden (L) Corporation of London (L) Croydon (L) Ealing (L) Enfield (L) Greenwich (L) Hackney (L) Hammersmith and Fulham (L) Haringey (L) Harrow (L) Havering (L) Hillingdon (L) Hounslow (L) Islington (L) Kensington and Chelsea (L) Kingston-upon-Thames (L) Lambeth (L) Lewisham (L) Merton (L) Newham (L) Redbridge (L) Richmond-upon-Thames (L) Southwark (L) Sutton (L) Tower Hamlets (L) Waltham Forest (L) Wandsworth (L) Westminster (L) Greater Manchester (MC) GTM 1986 Wigan (M) Bolton (M) Bury (M) Rochdale (M) Oldham (M) Tameside (M) Stockport (M) Manchester (M) Salford (M) Trafford (M) Hampshire HAM 1997 Hampshire Portsmouth (U) Southampton (U) Hereford and Worcester HWR 1998 Worcestershire Herefordshire (U) Hertfordshire HRT --- Hertfordshire Humberside HUM 1996 East Riding of Yorkshire (U) City of Kingston upon Hull (U) North Lincolnshire (U) North East Lincolnshire (U) Isle of Wight IOW 1995 Isle of Wight (U) Kent KEN 1998 Kent The Medway Towns (U) Lancashire LAN 1998 Lancashire Blackburn with Darwen (U) Blackpool (U) Leicestershire LEI 1997 Leicestershire Leicester City (U) Rutland (U) Lincolnshire LIN --- Lincolnshire Merseyside (MC) MSY 1986 Wirral (M) Sefton (M) Liverpool (M) Knowsley (M) St Helens (M) Norfolk NFK --- Norfolk Northamptonshire NTH --- Northamptonshire Northumberland NBL --- Northumberland North Yorkshire NYK 1996 North Yorkshire York (U) Nottinghamshire NTT 1998 Nottinghamshire Nottingham City (U) Oxfordshire OXF --- Oxfordshire Shropshire SAL 1998 Shropshire The Wrekin (U) Somerset SOM --- Somerset South Yorkshire (MC) SYK 1986 Barnsley (M) Doncaster (M) Rotherham (M) Sheffield (M) Staffordshire STS 1997 Staffordshire Stoke on Trent (U) Suffolk SFK --- Suffolk Surrey SRY --- Surrey Tyne and Wear (MC) TWR 1986 Newcastle-upon-Tyne (M) North Tyneside (M) South Tyneside (M) Gateshead (M) Sunderland (M) Warwickshire WAR --- Warwickshire West Midlands (MC) WMD 1986 Walsall (M) Wolverhamton (M) Dudley (M) Sandwell (M) Birmingham (M) Solihull (M) Coventry (M) West Sussex SXW --- West Sussex West Yorkshire (MC) WYK 1986 Calderdale (M) Bradford (M) Leeds (M) Wakefield (M) Kirklees (M) Wiltshire WIL 1997 Wiltshire Swindon (U) Notes Includes the Isles of Scilly. "Hants" derives from "Hantshaving", the original name for this county. "Oxon" is an abbreviation of "Oxonia", the Latin name for Oxford. "Salop" derives from "Sloppesberie", the original Anglo-French name for this county. |
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