List of counties of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has different sorts of counties. Some are traditional areas and some are for local government or other government things.

Counties (Traditional)

These counties are sometimes called historic counties, traditional counties or ancient or geographical counties. People argue about how much they exist in law. They are useful for genealogical and historic matters. Anyone may choose to use traditional counties or not.

The traditional counties have had nothing to do with government since 1889. However until 1974 most local government counties were very like them.

The United Kingdom has 92 traditional counties.

County	Area	Some towns in the county
Aberdeenshire	1,950 square miles (5,100 km2)	Aberdeen, Ellon, Fraserburgh, Huntly, Inverurie, Peterhead, Turriff
Anglesey	276 square miles (710 km2)	Beaumaris, Amlwch, Holyhead, Llangefni, Menai Bridge
Angus	889 square miles (2,300 km2)	Forfar, Dundee, Arbroath, Brechin, Carnoustie, Kirriemuir, Montrose
Antrim	1,175 square miles (3,000 km2)	Belfast, Antrim, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Carnlough, Larne, Portrush
Argyll (Argyllshire)	3,110 square miles (8,100 km2)	Lochgilphead, Campbeltown, Dunoon, Inveraray, Oban, Tobermory
Armagh	512 square miles (1,300 km2)	Armagh, Newry
Ayrshire	1,129 square miles (2,900 km2)	Ayr, Cumnock, Irvine, Kilmarnock, Kilwinning, Largs, Saltcoats, Troon
Banffshire	641 square miles (1,700 km2)	Banff, Buckie, Dufftown, Keith, Macduff, Portsoy
Bedfordshire	465 square miles (1,200 km2)	Bedford, Biggleswade, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Luton, Sandy
Berkshire	722 square miles (1,900 km2)	Reading, Abingdon, Bracknell, Maidenhead, Newbury, Windsor, Wokingham
Berwickshire	457 square miles (1,200 km2)	Greenlaw, Coldstream, Duns, Eyemouth, Lauder
Brecknockshire (Breconshire)	743 square miles (1,900 km2)	Brecon, Builth Wells, Hay-on-Wye, Llanwrtyd Wells, Talgarth
Buckinghamshire	745 square miles (1,900 km2)	Aylesbury, Buckingham, High Wycombe, Milton Keynes, Slough
Buteshire	225 square miles (580 km2)	Rothesay, Brodick, Lochranza, Millport
Caernarfonshire (Carnarvonshire)	480 square miles (1,200 km2)	Caernarfon, Bangor, Conwy, Llandudno, Porthmadog, Pwllheli
Caithness	618 square miles (1,600 km2)	Wick, Castletown, Halkirk, Thurso
Cambridgeshire	820 square miles (2,100 km2)	Cambridge, Ely, Chatteris, March, Cambridgeshire, Whittlesey, Wisbech
Cardiganshire	815 square miles (2,100 km2)	Cardigan, Aberystwyth, Lampeter, New Quay, Tregaron
Carmarthenshire	1,095 square miles (2,800 km2)	Carmarthen, Ammanford, Kidwelly, Llandovery, Llanelli, St Clears
Cheshire	1,027 square miles (2,700 km2)	Chester, Birkenhead, Crewe, Macclesfield, Runcorn, Stockport, Wallasey
Clackmannanshire	48 square miles (120 km2)	Clackmannan, Alloa, Dollar, Tillicoultry, Tullibody
Cornwall	1,349 square miles (3,500 km2)	Bodmin, Truro, Camborne, Falmouth, Newquay, Penzance, Redruth, St Austell
Cromartyshire	370 square miles (960 km2)	Cromarty, Ullapool
Cumberland	1,516 square miles (3,900 km2)	Carlisle, Brampton, Keswick, Penrith, Whitehaven, Workington
Denbighshire	640 square miles (1,700 km2)	Ruthin, Abergele, Denbigh, Llangollen, Wrexham
Derbyshire	1,029 square miles (2,700 km2)	Derby, Ashbourne, Buxton, Chesterfield, Ilkeston, Matlock, Swadlincote
Devon	2,405 square miles (6,200 km2)	Exeter, Plymouth, Barnstaple, Newton Abbot, Paignton, Tavistock, Tiverton, Torquay
Dorset	980 square miles (2,500 km2)	Dorchester, Poole, Shaftesbury, Sherborne, Weymouth, Wimborne Minster
Down	950 square miles (2,500 km2)	Downpatrick, Bangor, Holywood, Newcastle, Strangford
Dumbartonshire	241 square miles (620 km2)	Dumbarton, Alexandria, Clydebank, Cumbernauld, Helensburgh, Kirkintilloch
Dumfriesshire	1,063 square miles (2,800 km2)	Dumfries, Annan, Gretna, Langholm, Lockerbie, Moffat, Sanquhar
Durham	1,015 square miles (2,600 km2)	Durham, Gateshead, Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees, Sunderland, Washington
East Lothian	267 square miles (690 km2)	Haddington, Dunbar, East Linton, North Berwick, Tranent
Essex	1,542 square miles (4,000 km2)	Chelmsford, Basildon, Brentwood, Colchester, Harlow, Southend-on-Sea, Stratford
Fermanagh	715 square miles (1,900 km2)	Enniskillen, Belleek, Irvinestown
Fife	504 square miles (1,300 km2)	Cupar, Dunfermline, Burntisland, Cowdenbeath, Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy, St Andrews
Flintshire	640 square miles (1,700 km2)	Mold, Connah's Quay, Buckley, Flint, Holywell, Prestatyn, Rhyl, St Asaph
Glamorgan	845 square miles (2,200 km2)	Cardiff, Swansea, Barry, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath, Pontypridd
Gloucestershire	1,225 square miles (3,200 km2)	Gloucester, Bristol, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, Tewkesbury
Hampshire	1,622 square miles (4,200 km2)	Winchester, Portsmouth, Southampton, Basingstoke, Bournemouth, Newport
Herefordshire	833 square miles (2,200 km2)	Hereford, Bromyard, Kington, Ledbury, Leominster, Ross-on-Wye
Hertfordshire	727 square miles (1,900 km2)	Hertford, St Albans, Hatfield, Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Watford
Huntingdonshire	359 square miles (930 km2)	Huntingdon, Ramsey, St Ives, St Neots, Yaxley
Inverness-shire	4,211 square miles (11,000 km2)	Inverness, Fort William, Kingussie, Newtonmore, Portree
Kent	1,555 square miles (4,000 km2)	Maidstone, Canterbury, Bromley, Dover, Folkestone, Greenwich, Rochester
Kincardineshire	380 square miles (980 km2)	Stonehaven, Banchory, Inverbervie, Laurencekirk
Kirkcudbrightshire	899 square miles (2,300 km2)	Kirkcudbright, Castle Douglas, Dalbeattie, New Galloway
Lanarkshire	879 square miles (2,300 km2)	Lanark, Glasgow, Coatbridge, Carluke, East Kilbride, Hamilton, Motherwell
Lancashire	1,880 square miles (4,900 km2)	Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Barrow-in-Furness, Bolton, Warrington
Leicestershire	800 square miles (2,100 km2)	Leicester, Coalville, Hinckley, Loughborough, Lutterworth, Melton Mowbray
Lincolnshire	2,646 square miles (6,900 km2)	Lincoln, Boston, Grantham, Grimsby, Louth, Scunthorpe, Skegness, Stamford
Londonderry	816 square miles (2,100 km2)	Londonderry, Coleraine, Limavady
Merionethshire	780 square miles (2,000 km2)	Bala, Barmouth, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Dolgellau, Harlech, Towyn
Middlesex	285 square miles (740 km2)	London, Brentford, Westminster, Ealing, Enfield, Harrow, Potters Bar, Staines, Twickenham
Midlothian	362 square miles (940 km2)	Edinburgh, Bonnyrigg, Dalkeith, Musselburgh, Penicuik
Monmouthshire	530 square miles (1,400 km2)	Monmouth, Newport, Abergavenny, Blackwood, Chepstow, Cwmbran, Tredegar
Montgomeryshire	780 square miles (2,000 km2)	Montgomery, Llanidloes, Machynlleth, Newtown, Welshpool
Morayshire	476 square miles (1,200 km2)	Elgin, Fochabers, Lossiemouth, Forres, Rothes
Nairnshire	200 square miles (520 km2)	Nairn, Auldearn, Cawdor
Norfolk	2,044 square miles (5,300 km2)	Norwich, Cromer, East Dereham, Great Yarmouth, Hunstanton, King's Lynn
Northamptonshire	984 square miles (2,500 km2)	Northampton, Peterborough, Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough
Northumberland	2,018 square miles (5,200 km2)	Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Alnwick, (Berwick-upon-Tweed), Hexham, Morpeth
Nottinghamshire	825 square miles (2,100 km2)	Nottingham, Mansfield, Newark-on-Trent, Retford, Southwell, Worksop
Orkney	376 square miles (970 km2)	Kirkwall, Balfour, Stromness
Oxfordshire	756 square miles (2,000 km2)	Oxford, Banbury, Bicester, Carterton, Henley-on-Thames, Thame, Witney
Peeblesshire	548 square miles (1,400 km2)	Peebles, Innerleithen, West Linton
Pembrokeshire	655 square miles (1,700 km2)	Pembroke, Fishguard, Haverfordwest, Milford Haven, Tenby, St David's
Perthshire	2,493 square miles (6,500 km2)	Perth, Blairgowrie, Callander, Coupar Angus, Crieff, Kincardine, Pitlochry, Rattray
Radnorshire	485 square miles (1,300 km2)	Presteigne, Knighton, Llandrindod Wells, New Radnor, Rhayader
Renfrewshire	245 square miles (630 km2)	Renfrew, Barrhead, Greenock, Johnstone, Kilmacolm, Paisley, Port Glasgow
Ross-shire	3,089 square miles (8,000 km2)	Dingwall, Alness, Invergordon, Stornaway, Tain
Roxburghshire	666 square miles (1,700 km2)	Jedburgh, Hawick, Kelso, Melrose, Roxburgh
Rutland	152 square miles (390 km2)	Oakham, Cottesmore, Uppingham
Selkirkshire	267 square miles (690 km2)	Selkirk, Galashiels
Shetland	551 square miles (1,400 km2)	Lerwick, Baltasound, Scalloway
Shropshire	1,343 square miles (3,500 km2)	Shrewsbury, Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Telford, Whitchurch
Somerset	1,640 square miles (4,200 km2)	Taunton, Bath, Bridgwater, Glastonbury, Wells, Weston-super-Mare, Yeovil
Staffordshire	1,171 square miles (3,000 km2)	Stafford, Lichfield, Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Cannock, Walsall
Stirlingshire	447 square miles (1,200 km2)	Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Denny, Falkirk, Grangemouth, Kilsyth
Suffolk	1,489 square miles (3,900 km2)	Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds, Bungay, Felixstowe, Haverhill, Lowestoft, Sudbury
Surrey	758 square miles (2,000 km2)	Guildford, Brixton, Croydon, Egham, Farnham, Kingston upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Wandsworth, Wimbledon, Woking
Sussex	1,458 square miles (3,800 km2)	Chichester, Bognor Regis, Brighton, Crawley, Eastbourne, Hastings, Horsham, Worthing
Sutherland	2,028 square miles (5,300 km2)	Dornoch, Brora, Durness, Golspie, Helmsdale, Lairg, Tongue
Tyrone	1,260 square miles (3,300 km2)	Omagh, Cookstown, Dungannon, Strabane
Warwickshire	885 square miles (2,300 km2)	Warwick, Birmingham, Coventry, Nuneaton, Rugby, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon
West Lothian (Linlithgowshire)	120 square miles (310 km2)	Linlithgow, Armadale, Bathgate, Bo'ness, Broxburn, Livingston, Whitburn
Westmorland	783 square miles (2,000 km2)	Appleby in Westmorland, Ambleside, Kendal, Kirkby Lonsdale, Windermere
Wigtownshire	487 square miles (1,300 km2)	Wigtown, Newton Stewart, Stranraer, Whithorn
Wiltshire	1,370 square miles (3,500 km2)	Salisbury, Chippenham, Devizes, Marlborough, Swindon, Trowbridge, Warminster
Worcestershire	738 square miles (1,900 km2)	Worcester, Dudley, Evesham, Great Malvern, Halesowen, Kidderminster, Stourbridge
Yorkshire	6,066 square miles (16,000 km2)	York East Riding: Kingston upon Hull, Beverley, Bridlington, Driffield, Filey, Hornsea North Riding: Middlesbrough, Northallerton, Scarborough, Whitby West Riding: Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield, Wakefield, Halifax, Harrogate

Counties (Local Government) Districts & Principal Areas

See also

Local government administrative areas have different functions and powers in each of the different countries in the United Kingdom (England and the devolved administrations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) This resulted from devolution of administrative, executive, or legislative authority to the new institutions operating. The areas administered by local government have different types of names in the different parts of the United Kingdom.

• Districts of England

There is a total of 326 English districts. As the structure of local government in England is not uniform, there are currently four principal types of district-level subdivision (numbers shown in brackets)

1. Metropolitan borough (36)
2. Non-Metropolitan district (Shire District) (201)
3. Unitary authority (55)
4. London boroughs (32)

As a result, in parts of England there are local government counties with districts in them.^[1] In other parts there are counties with just one district, and in those parts there is only one council, which is the district council or the county council.^[2] Greater London is not a county; it has City of London, London Borough Councils, and a Greater London Authority. The Council of the Isles of Scilly is unique but is in effect a county council operating as unitary authority.

• Scotland

In Scotland there are "local government areas"^[3] but most people call them "council areas".

• Wales

In Wales there are "principal areas".^[4] Some councils' areas in Wales are called "counties" and others "county boroughs".

• Northern Ireland

In 1972, administrative functions in the Counties of Northern Ireland were replaced by 26 unitary authorities.^[5]

• See the main article: Local government in the United Kingdom

County	Type	Part of the UK	Council	Districts in the county/area
Aberdeen	council area	Scotland	City Council	none
Aberdeenshire	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Angus	Council area	Scotland	Council	none
Argyll and Bute	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Bath and North East Somerset	county	England	(district council)	Bath and North East Somerset
Bedford	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Bedford
Berkshire	county	England	none	Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham
Blackburn with Darwen	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Blackburn with Darwen
Blackpool	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Blackpool
Blaenau Gwent	principal area	Wales	County Borough Council	none
Bournemouth	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Bournemouth
Bridgend	principal area	Wales	County Borough Council	none
Brighton and Hove	county	England	(district council)	City of Brighton and Hove
Bristol	county	England	(district council)	City of Bristol
Buckinghamshire	county	England	County Council	Aylesbury Vale, South Bucks, Chiltern, Wycombe
Cambridgeshire	county	England	County Council	Cambridge, East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdonshire, South Cambridgeshire
Caerphilly	principal area	Wales	County Borough Council	none
Cardiff	principal area	Wales	City and County Council	none
Carmarthenshire	principal area	Wales	County Council	none
Central Bedfordshire	county	England	(district council)	Central Bedfordshire
Ceredigion	principal area	Wales	County Council	none
Cheshire East	county	England	(district council)	Cheshire East
Cheshire West and Chester	county	England	(district council)	Cheshire West and Chester
Clackmannanshire	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Conwy	principal area	Wales	County Borough Council	none
Cornwall	county	England	Council	none
Cumbria	county	England	County Council	Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden, South Lakeland
Denbighshire	principal area	Wales	County Council	none
Derby	county	England	(district council)	City of Derby
Derbyshire	county	England	County Council	Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, Erewash, High Peak, North East Derbyshire, South Derbyshire
Devon	county	England	County Council	East Devon, Exeter, Mid Devon, North Devon, South Hams, Teignbridge, Torridge, West Devon
Dorset	county	England	County Council	Weymouth and Portland, West Dorset, North Dorset, Purbeck, East Dorset, Christchurch
Dumfries and Galloway	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Dundee	council area	Scotland	City Council	none
County Durham	county	England	County Council	none
East Ayrshire	council area	Scotland	Council	none
East Dunbartonshire	council area	Scotland	Council	none
East Lothian	council area	Scotland	Council	none
East Renfrewshire	council area	Scotland	Council	none
East Riding of Yorkshire	county	England	(district council)	East Riding of Yorkshire
East Sussex	county	England	County Council	Eastbourne, Hastings, Lewes, Rother, Wealden,
Edinburgh	council area	Scotland	City Council	none
Essex	county	England	County Council	Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Colchester, Epping Forest, Harlow, Maldon, Rochford, Tendring, Uttlesford
Falkirk	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Fife	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Flintshire	principal area	Wales	County Council	none
Glasgow	council area	Scotland	City Council	none
Gloucestershire	county	England	County Council	Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Stroud, Tewkesbury
Greater London	Region	England	Authority	Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond, Southwark, Sutton, Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets, Wandsworth, City of Westminster
Greater Manchester	metropolitan county	England	Authority	Manchester, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, City of Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan
Gwynedd	principal area	Wales	County Council	none
Halton	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Halton
Hampshire	county	England	County Council	Basingstoke and Deane, Eastleigh, East Hampshire, Fareham, Gosport, Hart, Havant, New Forest, Rushmoor, Test Valley, City of Winchester
Hartlepool	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Hartlepool
Herefordshire	county	England	(district council)	Herefordshire
Hertfordshire	county	England	County Council	Broxbourne, Dacorum, East Hertfordshire, Hertsmere, North Hertfordshire, St Albans, Stevenage, Three Rivers, Watford, Welwyn Hatfield
Highland	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Inverclyde	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Isle of Anglesey	principal area	Wales	County Council	none
Isle of Wight	county	England	Council	none
Kent	county	England	County Council	Ashford, Canterbury, Dartford, Dover, Gravesham, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Shepway, Swale, Thanet, Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells
Kingston upon Hull	county	England	(district council)	Kingston upon Hull
Lancashire	county	England	County Council	Burnley, Chorley, South Ribble, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Preston, Ribble Valley, Rossendale, West Lancashire, Wyre
Leicester	county	England	(district council)	City of Leicester
Leicestershire	county	England	County Council	Blaby, Charnwood, Harborough, Hinckley and Bosworth, Melton, North West Leicestershire, Oadby and Wigston
Lincolnshire	county	England	County Council	Boston, East Lindsey, Lincoln, North Kesteven, South Holland, South Kesteven, West Lindsey
City of London	county	England	City of London Corporation	none
Luton	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Luton
Medway	county	England	(district council)	City of Medway
Merseyside	metropolitan county	England	none	Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral
Merthyr Tydfil	principal area	Wales	County Borough Council	none
Middlesbrough	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Middlesbrough
Midlothian	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Milton Keynes	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Milton Keynes
Monmouthshire	principal area	Wales	County Council	none
Moray	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Neath Port Talbot	principal area	Wales	County Borough Council	none
Newport	principal area	Wales	City Council	none
Norfolk	county	England	County Council	Breckland, Broadland, Great Yarmouth, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, North Norfolk, Norwich, South Norfolk
Northamptonshire	county	England	County Council	Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Northampton, South Northamptonshire, Wellingborough
North Ayrshire	council area	Scotland	Council	none
North East Lincolnshire	county	England	(district council)	North East Lincolnshire
Northern Ireland	Region	Northern Ireland	Assembly	Antrim, Ards, Armagh, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Banbridge, Belfast, Carrickfergus, Castlereagh, Coleraine, Cookstown, Craigavon, Derry, Down, Dungannon and South Tyrone, Fermanagh, Larne, Limavady, Lisburn, Magherafelt, Moyle, Newry and Mourne, Newtownabbey, North Down, Omagh, Strabane
North Lanarkshire	council area	Scotland	Council	none
North Lincolnshire	county	England	(district council)	North Lincolnshire
North Somerset	county	England	(district council)	North Somerset
Northumberland	county	England	County Council	none
North Yorkshire	county	England	County Council	Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby
Nottingham	county	England	(district council)	City of Nottingham
Nottinghamshire	county	England	County Council	Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Gedling, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, Rushcliffe
Orkney Islands	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Oxfordshire	county	England	County Council	Oxford, Cherwell, South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse, West Oxfordshire
Pembrokeshire	principal area	Wales	County Council	none
Perth and Kinross	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Peterborough	county	England	(district council)	City of Peterborough
Plymouth	county	England	(district council)	Portsmouth City of Plymouth
Poole	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Poole
Portsmouth	county	England	(district council)	City of Portsmouth
Powys	principal area	Wales	County Council	none
Redcar and Cleveland	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Redcar and Cleveland
Renfrewshire	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Rutland	county	England	(district council)	Rutland
Scottish Borders	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Shetland Islands	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Shropshire	county	England	Council	none
Somerset	county	England	County Council	Mendip, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, Sedgemoor, West Somerset
Southampton	county	England	(district council)	City of Southampton
South Ayrshire	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Southend-on-Sea	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Southend-on-Sea
South Gloucestershire	county	England	(district council)	South Gloucestershire
South Lanarkshire	council area	Scotland	Council	none
South Yorkshire	metropolitan county	England	none	Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield
Staffordshire	county	England	County Council	Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Tamworth
Stirling	council area	Scotland	Council	none
Stockton-on-Tees	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Stockton-on-Tees
Stoke-on-Trent	county	England	(district council)	City of Stoke-on-Trent
Swindon	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Swindon
Suffolk	county	England	County Council	Babergh, Forest Heath, Ipswich, Mid Suffolk, St Edmundsbury, Suffolk Coastal, Waveney
Surrey	county	England	County Council	Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Woking
Swansea	principal area	Wales	City and County Council	none
Telford and Wrekin	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Telford and Wrekin
Thurrock	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Thurrock
Torbay	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Torbay
Torfaen	principal area	Wales	County Borough Council	none
Tyne and Wear	metropolitan county	England	none	Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland
Vale of Glamorgan	principal area	Wales	County Borough Council	none
Warrington	county	England	(district council)	Borough of Warrington
Warwickshire	county	England	County Council	North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick
West Dunbartonshire	council area	Scotland	Council	none
West Lothian	council area	Scotland	Council	none
West Midlands	metropolitan county	England	none	Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton
West Sussex	county	England	County Council	Adur, Arun, Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex, Worthing
West Yorkshire	metropolitan county	England	none	Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, Wakefield
Wiltshire	county	England	Council	none
Worcestershire	county	England	County Council	Bromsgrove, Malvern Hills, Redditch, Worcester, Wychavon, Wyre Forest
Wrexham	principal area	Wales	County Borough Council	none
York	county	England	(district council)	City of York
Other areas:
Inner Temple	liberty	England	The Sub-Treasurer	none
Isles of Scilly		England	Council	none
Middle Temple	liberty	England	The Undertreasurer	none

Ceremonial Counties & Lieutenancy Areas

The Queen appoints officers called "lord-lieutenants" and High Sheriff in ceremonial counties and lieutenancy areas. The UK area in which their duties are carried out is usually called a ceremonial county except in Scotland, where they are called "Lieutenancy Areas". In Scotland only a lord-lieutenant is appointed to each lieutenancy area.

Ceremonial Counties (England, Northern Ireland and Wales)

A ceremonial county in England and Wales is a local government county or a group of local government counties. In Northern Ireland it is a county or county borough.

Ceremonial County	Consisting of:
Antrim	County of Antrim
Armagh	County of Armagh
Bedfordshire	Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton
Belfast City	Belfast County Borough
Berkshire	Berkshire
Bristol	City of Bristol
Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes
Cambridgeshire	Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Cheshire	Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton and Warrington
City of London	The City of London
Clwyd	Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wrexham
Cornwall	Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Cumbria	Cumbria
Derbyshire	Derbyshire and Derby
Devon	Devon, Plymouth and Torbay
Dorset	Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole
Down	County of Down
Durham	Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, and the part of Stockton-on-Tees which is north of the River Tees
Dyfed	Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire
East Riding of Yorkshire	East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston-upon-Hull
East Sussex	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove
Essex	Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock
Fermanagh	County of Fermanagh
Gloucestershire	Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire
Greater London	Greater London apart from the City of London
Greater Manchester	Greater Manchester
Gwent	Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Torfaen, Monmouthshire, Newport
Gwynedd	Anglesey, Gwynedd
Hampshire	Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton
Herefordshire	Herefordshire
Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire
Isle of Wight	Isle of Wight
Kent	Kent and Medway
Lancashire	Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen, and Blackpool
Leicestershire	Leicestershire and Leicester
Lincolnshire	Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire
Londonderry	County of Londonderry
Londonderry City	Londonderry County Borough
Merseyside	Merseyside
Mid Glamorgan	Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taff
Norfolk	Norfolk
North Yorkshire	North Yorkshire, York, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and the part of Stockton-on-Tees which is south of the River Tees
Northamptonshire	Northamptonshire
Northumberland	Northumberland
Nottinghamshire	Nottinghamshire and Nottingham
Oxfordshire	Oxfordshire
Powys	Powys
Rutland	Rutland
Shropshire	Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin
Somerset	Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset
South Glamorgan	Cardiff, Vale of Glamorgan
South Yorkshire	South Yorkshire
Staffordshire	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
Suffolk	Suffolk
Surrey	Surrey
Tyne and Wear	Tyne and Wear
Tyrone	County of Tyrone
Warwickshire	Warwickshire
West Glamorgan	Neath Port Talbot, Swansea
West Midlands	West Midlands
West Sussex	West Sussex
West Yorkshire	West Yorkshire
Wiltshire	Wiltshire and Swindon
Worcestershire	Worcestershire

Lieutenancy Areas (Scotland)

Area Name	Areas covered
Aberdeenshire	Aberdeenshire (historic) except parts in the City of Aberdeen
Angus	The Angus principal area
Argyll and Bute	The former district of Argyll and Bute
Ayrshire and Arran	The former districts of Kilmarnock and Loudoun, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Cunninghame, and Kyle and Carrick
Banffshire	Banffshire (historic)
Berwickshire	The former district of Berwickshire
Caithness	Caithness
Clackmannan	The former district of Clackmannan
Dumfries	The former districts of Nithsdale, and Annandale and Eskdale
Dunbartonshire	The former districts of Dumbarton, Clydebank, Bearsden and Milngavie, Strathkelvin, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, South Lenzie/Waterside ward
East Lothian	The former district of East Lothian
Fife	Fife
Inverness	The former districts of Lochaber, Inverness, and Badenoch and Strathspey
Kincardineshire	Kincardineshire (historic) except Nigg
Lanarkshire	The former districts of Monklands, Motherwell, Hamilton, East Kilbride, Clydesdale, and various other parts of the former Strathclyde region
Midlothian	The former district of Midlothian
Moray	Morayshire except those in the former Highland Region
Nairn	The former district of Nairn
Orkney	Orkney
Perth and Kinross	The Perth and Kinross principal area
Renfrewshire	The former districts of Eastwood, Renfrew, and Inverclyde
Ross and Cromarty	The former districts of Ross and Cromarty, and Skye and Lochalsh
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale	The former districts of Roxburgh, and Ettrick and Lauderdale
Shetland	Shetland
Stirling and Falkirk	The former districts of Stirling and Falkirk
Sutherland	The former district of Sutherland
The Stewartry of Kirkcudbright	The former district of Stewartry
Tweeddale	The former district of Tweeddale (Peeblesshire)
West Lothian	The former district of West Lothian
Western Isles	Na h-Eileanan Siar
Wigtown	The former district of Wigtown

Other websites

• The Gazetteer of British Place Names
• Local Government directory – British Government