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UK counties
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Oct 23, 2003 01:49 PDT
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Anne said:
| | This must be a win for the Post Office, as I don't think they ever
surrendered the 'traditional' county names and borders
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According to the website, there's no reason anyone should have, since the government kept saying
they weren't changing them when they were creating new administrative areas.
I used the trad counties on a website for a house builder, as we needed a way to divide the
country into chunks by regions that everyone would recognise - and the traditional counties are
the perfect way of doing it. Everyone knows Reading is in Berkshire, even if for some regions of
officialdom, Berkshire doesn't exist any more! In fact, what took me to this site in the first
place was trying to find any UK government site that would tell me what *they* thought the areas
were. I ended up feeling that the authoritative source had to be the one that could actually tell
me the facts!
Do other countries have this problem - do the US state boundaries ever change? Or is it only in
the UK that we put up with this kind of nonsense?
Beck
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