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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ninthcouncil" data-source="post: 477358" data-attributes="member: 2566">Re: Re: Re: GB CountiesI thought you might be using an old encycopaedia <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> [political nerd mode on]The 1974 reorganisation did away with a lot of the smaller counties in favour of larger administrative units; Scotland and Wales changed completely. This wasn't universally popular and a lot of people still hanker after old counties such as Rutland which were swallowed up in larger units. Greater London in particular absorbed a lot of bits and pieces from surrounding counties (like Greenwich and Bromley from Kent, as I mentioned), including the entirety of Middlesex; though the Post Office still recognise it as part of an address, it has no government apparatus.Things got more complicated again a few years back (1998?) when some areas were created which merged the responsibilities of county and district governments - these so-called "unitary authorities" were generally urban chunks out of larger counties (such as the Medway Towns in Kent). Also, under Mrs. Thatcher, and almost entirely for partisan political reasons, Greater London ceased to exist as a government entity and was broken up into its constituent boroughs (though it now has a mayor with overall authority in certain specific areas, such as transport and policing - and, guess what, it's the same guy who was in charge of Greater London when Maggie evicted him). Yes, that's right, the largest city in Britain had no central authority...[political nerd mode off]Anyway, if you want to indulge nostalgia over the dead counties,  or confuse yourself with the current wacky system, here are a couple of links.Old Counties (pre 1974) -<a href="http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/countmap.htm" target="_blank">http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jimella/countmap.htm</a> New -<a href="http://www.abcounties.co.uk/newgaz/map2.htm" target="_blank">http://www.abcounties.co.uk/newgaz/map2.htm</a> (Corrected links!)</blockquote>

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