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Re: UK counties
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Anna McCormack
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Oct 22, 2003 21:18 PDT
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Beck Laxton wrote:
| | I've recently been trying to find a definitive list of UK counties,
which proved to be impossible. But that's because I was asking the
wrong question. I found a very good website which explained why the
counties are such a mess, and what we can do about it - they suggest
reverting to the traditional counties we've always had and ignoring
all the 'administrative areas' that successive UK governments have
introduced. And they have a list of counties plus a map. Loads of
information, and all rather well written, too.
I was most relieved to find out why I'd been in such a muddle, and
thought others might be interested too. The url is
http://www.abcounties.co.uk/
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Thanks for the website, which is owned by the Association of British
Counties. I was recently looking for Radnor (Wales) and becoming
frustrated because it is/was one of the 'traditional' counties lost in
the 1970s reorganisation of local government areas.
On that website it says: 'Under the Royal Mail's Flexible Addressing
policy, the correct traditional County name can now be included in any
U.K. postal address.'
This must be a win for the Post Office, as I don't think they ever
surrendered the 'traditional' county names and borders---at least, they
hadn't by 1980 when I left the UK. Living in Ashford,
previously-in-Middlesex-but-now-in-Surrey, I often received mail
testily corrected by the PO to the now lost 'Middx'---especially if it
had wandered off to Ashford, Kent, first.
Fortunately, postcodes seem reliable, even if names aren't.
Anna McCormack
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Beck Laxton wrote:
<excerpt><fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>I've recently been
trying to find a definitive list of UK counties, which proved to be
impossible. But that's because I was asking the wrong question. I
found a very good website which explained why the counties are such a
mess, and what we can do about it - they suggest reverting to the
traditional counties we've always had and ignoring all the
'administrative areas' that successive UK governments have introduced.
And they have a list of counties plus a map. Loads of information, and
all rather well written, too. =A0</smaller></fontfamily>
<fontfamily><param>Arial</param><smaller>I was most relieved to find
out why I'd been in such a muddle, and thought others might be
interested too. The url is =
http://www.abcounties.co.uk/</smaller></fontfamily>
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<fontfamily><param>Arial</param>Thanks for the website, which is owned
by the Association of British Counties. I was recently looking for
Radnor (Wales) and becoming frustrated because it is/was one of the
'traditional' counties lost in the 1970s reorganisation of local
government areas.
On that website it says: 'Under the Royal Mail's Flexible =
Addressing
policy, the correct traditional County name can now be included in any
U.K. postal address.'=20
This must be a win for the Post Office, as I don't think they =
ever
surrendered the 'traditional' county names and borders---at least,
they hadn't by 1980 when I left the UK. Living in Ashford,
previously-in-Middlesex-but-now-in-Surrey, I often received mail
testily corrected by the PO to the now lost 'Middx'---especially if it
had wandered off to Ashford, Kent, first.
Fortunately, postcodes seem reliable, even if names aren't.
Anna McCormack
</fontfamily>
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