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A '''ceremonial county'' is a term used to refer to a county area that has its own Lord Lieutenant. Ceremonial counties are no longer important for local government purposes, but are a very convenient way of dividing up the map of England.
A '''ceremonial county''' is a term used to refer to an English county area that has its own Lord Lieutenant. Ceremonial counties are no longer important for local government purposes, but are a very convenient way of dividing up the map of England.


==List of ceremonial counties==
==List of ceremonial counties==

Revision as of 12:16, 22 March 2013

A ceremonial county is a term used to refer to an English county area that has its own Lord Lieutenant. Ceremonial counties are no longer important for local government purposes, but are a very convenient way of dividing up the map of England.

List of ceremonial counties

London

Metropolitan counties

Unitary counties

These are ceremonial counties containing a single unitary authority:

Counties with a unitary council of the same name covering only part of the ceremonial county

Counties with a county council and one or more districts