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===Counties with a county council and one or more districts=== | ===Counties with a county council and one or more districts=== | ||
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* [[West Sussex]] | * [[West Sussex]] | ||
* [[Worcestershire]] | * [[Worcestershire]] | ||
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* [[Berkshire]] | |||
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Revision as of 12:21, 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
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Cumbria
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Dorset
- East Sussex
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Hampshire
- Hertfordshire
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Norfolk
- North Yorkshire
- Northamptonshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Somerset
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Warwickshire
- West Sussex
- Worcestershire