Below is a list of the 41 counties of England & Wales before 1974
1 Bedfordshire
2 Berkshire
3 Buckinghamshire
4 Cambridgeshire
5 Cheshire
6 Cornwall
7 Cumberland
8 Derbyshire
9 Devon
10 Dorset
11 Durham
12 Essex
13 Gloucestershire
14 Hampshire
15 Herefordshire
16 Hertfordshire
17 Huntingdonshire
18 Kent
19 Lancashire
20 Leicestershire
21 Lincolnshire
22 London
23 Middlesex
24 Norfolk
25 Northamptonshire
26 Northumberland
27 Nottinghamshire
28 Oxfordshire
29 Rutland
30 Shropshire
31 Somerset
32 Staffordshire
33 Suffolk
34 Surrey
35 Sussex
36 Wales
37 Warwickshire
38 Westmorland
39 Wiltshire
40 Worcestershire
41 Yorkshire
Hover your mouse over the map below to see where these counties were.
To see a more detailed map of the counties of England and Wales click here.
Below is a list of the 44 counties of England & Wales from 1974 to about 1997
1 Avon
2 Bedfordshire
3 Berkshire
4 Buckinghamshire
5 Cambridgeshire
6 Cheshire
7 Cleveland
8 Cornwall
9 Cumbria
10 Derbyshire
11 Devon
12 Dorset
13 Durham
14 East Sussex
15 Essex
16 Gloucestershire
17 Greater London
18 Greater Manchester
19 Hampshire
20 Hereford & Worcester
21 Hertfordshire
22 Humberside
23 Isle of Wight
24 Kent
25 Lancashire
26 Leicestershire
27 Lincolnshire
28 Merseyside
29 Norfolk
30 North Yorkshire
31 Northamptonshire
32 Nottinghamshire
33 Oxfordshire
34 Shropshire
35 Somerset
36 South Yorkshire
37 Staffordshire
38 Suffolk
39 Surrey
40 Warwickshire
41 West Midlands
42 West Sussex
43 West Yorkshire
44 Wiltshire
Trivia
I have compiled a list of how many of the 1974-1997 counties each county borders. A common border is where one can cycle from one to the other without paying a fee. The Isle of Wight thus has no common borders. Seven counties including Wiltshire have seven borders with other counties. No county has more than seven common borders.
If you cycled between Horton and Colnbrook you could travel directly between Berkshire and Greater London, these two counties had about a mile of common boundary. This meant that there was no common boundary between Surrey and Buckinghamshire; they got within a mile of each other.
Below is a more recent list of UK Counties and Unitary Authorities.
