The government, most helpfully, seem to change the county boundaries so often that it is hard for even the British to keep up.
For administrative purposes the Local Government Act of 1992 abolished the administrative County Councils of Avon, Cleveland, Humberside, Isle of Wight and North Yorkshire. The County Councils of Berkshire, Hereford and Worcestershire were abolished on 1 April 1998 and on this date the County Council of Worcestershire was established.
The Metropolitan Counties of Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Midlands and West Yorkshire remain as geographical counties.
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Counties of England and their Districts
Bristol: Bristol City
Bedfordshire: Luton, Mid Bedfordshire, Bedford, South Bedfordshire
Berkshire: Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham
Buckinghamshire: Aylesbury Vale, Chiltern, Milton Keynes, South Buckinghamshire, Wycombe
Cambridgeshire: Cambridge City, East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdonshire, Peterborough City, South Cambridgeshire
Cheshire: Chester City, Congleton, Crewe and Nantwich, Ellesmere Port and Neston, Halton, Macclesfield, Vale Royal, Warrington
Cleveland/Teesside: Redcar & Cleveland, Stockton on Tees, Middlesborough, Darlington
Cornwall: Caradon, Carrick, Kerrier, North Cornwall, Penwith, Restormel
Cumbria: Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle City, Copeland, Eden, South Lakeland
Derbyshire: Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derby City, Derbyshire Dales, Erewash, High Peak, North East Derbyshire, South East Derbyshire
Devon: East Devon, Exeter City, Mid Devon, North Devon, Plymouth City, South Hams, Teignbridge, Torquay, Torridge, West Devon
Dorset: Bournemouth, Christchurch, East Dorset, North Dorset, Poole, Purbeck, West Dorset, Weymouth and Portland
Durham: Chester le Street, Darlington, Derwentshire, Durham City, Easington, Hartlepool, Sedgefield, Stockton (north of the River Tees), Teesdale, Wear Valley
East Riding of Yorkshire: East Riding of Yorkshire (formerly East Yorkshire, Beverley, Holderness and part of Boothferry), City of Hull
East Sussex: Brighton and Hove, Eastbourne, Hastings, Lewes, Rother, Wealden
Essex: Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Castlepoint, Chelmsford, Colchester, Epping Forest, Harlow, Maldon, Rochford, Southend-on-Sea, Tendring, Thurrock, Uttlesford
Gloucestershire: Cheltenham, Cotswolds, Forest of Dean, Gloucester City, Stroud, South Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury
Greater Manchester: Bolton, Bury, Manchester City, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan(all Metropolitan Councils)
Hampshire: Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire, Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Hart, Havant, New Forest, Portsmouth City, Rushmoor, Southampton City, Test Valley, Winchester City
Herefordshire: Herefordshire
Hertfordshire: Bishops Stortford, Broxbourne, Dacorum, East Hertfordshire, Hertford, Hertsmere, North Hertfordshire, St Albans City, Stevenage, Three Rivers, Watford, Welwyn Hatfield
Kent: Ashford, Canterbury City, Dartford, Dover, Gravesham, Maidstone, Medway, Sevenoaks, Shepway, Swale, Thanet, Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells
Lancashire: Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Burnley, Bury, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancashire City, Pendle, Preston, Ribble Valley, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire, Wyre, Bolton (Metropolitan Council)
Leicestershire: Blaby, Charnwood, Harborough, Hinckley & Bosworth, Leicester City, Melton, North West Leicestershire, Oadby and Wigston, Rutland
Lincolnshire: Boston, East Lincolnshire (formerly Cleethorpes and Great Grimsby), East Lindsey, Lincoln City, North Kesteven, North Lincolnshire (formerly Glandford, Scunthorpe and part of Boothferry), South Holland, South Kesteven, West Lindsey
Merseyside: Knowsley, Liverpool City, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral (all Metropolitan Councils)
Norfolk: Breckland, Broadland, Great Yarmouth, Kings Lynn and West Norfolk, South Norfolk
Northamptonshire: Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Northampton, South Northamptonshire, Wellingborough
Northumberland: Alnwick, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Blyth Valley, Tynedale, Wansbeck
North Yorkshire: Craven, Hambleton, Harrogate, Redcar and Ceveland, Middlesborough, Richmondshire, Scarborough, Selby, Stockton (south of the River Tees)
Nottinghamshire: Ashfield, Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Gedling, Mansfield, Newark and Sherwood, Nottingham City, Rushcliffe
Oxfordshire: North Oxfordshire (Cherwell), Oxford City, South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse
Rutland: Rutland is now a ceremonial county, but for administrative purposes is a Unitary Council of Leicestershire
Shropshire: Bridgnorth, North Shropshire, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Atcham, South Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin
Somerset: Bath & North East Somerset, Mendip, North Somerset, Sedgemoor, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, West Somerset
South Yorkshire: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield City (all Metropolitan Councils)
Staffordshire: Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, Lichfield, Newcastle-under-Lyme, South Staffordshire, Stafford, Staffordshire Moorlands, Stoke-on-Trent City, Tamworth
Suffolk: Babergh, Forest Heath, Mid Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Coastal, Waveney
Surrey: Elmbridge, Epson and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Woking
Tyne and Wear: Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne City, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland City (all Metropolitan Councils)
Warwickshire: North Warwickshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwick
West Midlands: Birmingham City, Coventry City, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton (all Metropolitan Councils)
West Sussex: Adur, Arun , Chichester, Crawley, Horsham, Mid Sussex, Worthing
West Yorkshire: Bradford City, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds City, Wakefield City (all Metropolitan Councils)
Wiltshire: Kennet, North Wiltshire, Thamesdown (Swindon), West Wiltshire, Salisbury
Worcestershire: Bromsgrove, Malvern Hills, Redditch, Worcester City, Wychavon, Wyre Forest
London and its Boroughs
There are 32 London Boroughs and these are listed below.
Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Corporation of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond-upon-Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Westminster City.
Wales
The 1992 Local Government Act created 22 Unitary Authorities as listed below.
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Blaenau Gwent: South Wales
Bridgend: South Wales
Caerphilly: South Wales
Cardiff: South Wales
Carmarthenshire: West Wales
Ceredigion: West Wales
Conwy: North Wales
Denbighshire: North Wales
Flintshire: North Wales
Gwynedd: North Wales
Isle of Anglesey: North Wales
Merthyr Tydfil: South Wales
Monmouthshire: South Wales
Neath Port Talbot: South Wales
Newport: South Wales
Pembrokeshire: West Wales
Powys: Mid Wales
Rhondda Cynon Taff: South Wales
Swansea: South Wales
Torfaen: South Wales
Vale of Glamorgan: South Wales
Wrexham: North Wales
Scotland
The Local Government Act 1992 abolished Scotland's Regional Councils and created 29 Unitary Councils. There are 32 Unitary Councils as Island Councils were already Unitary Councils.
Clackmannanshire: Dumfries and Galloway
East Dunbartonshire: East Lothian
Perth and Kinross: Renfrewshire
South Ayrshire: South Lanarkshire
Western Isles (Na H-Eileanan An Lan): West Lothian
Channel Islands
The Channel Islands are the only part of the Duchy of Normandy that remains in English hands. They have belonged to the Crown since 1066.
Jersey
Guernsey
Guernsey has seven dependencies as follows:
Alderney, Brechou, Great Sark, Little Sark, Herm, Jethou, Lihou
Isles of Scilly
The Council of the Isles of Scilly is unique administratively in the United Kingdom. A non political Council of the Isles of Scilly and comprising 21 members, administer the five inhabited islands of:
St Mary's, Tresco, Bryher, St Agnes, St Martins
The Isle of Man
The Isle of Man is governed by the Tynwald, a legislature consisting of the Legislative Council and the House of Keys. The Legislative Council is composed of the Bishop of Sodor and Man, the Attorney General and eight other members whom the House of Keys appoints. The House of Keys is comprised of 24 elected members.
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