Your Favourite County?

[45041]

Can I get away with The County pub in Willenhall???

 

[CarltonA]

- UK / NI only

The six counties of NI are in the UK, the other 26 counties of Ireland left the Union in the 1920s. I once told somebody I was from County Durham originally, they replied "Oh, I didn't realise you were Irish".

 

[D6130]

One English county has 10% of the breweries in the UK.

That's got to be Yorkshire....and West Yorkshire in particular! Cheers!

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

The six counties of NI are in the UK, the other 26 counties of Ireland left the Union in the 1920s. I once told somebody I was from County Durham originally, they replied "Oh, I didn't realise you were Irish".

Bet you didn't realise it either!
Durham is odd in being the only English shire called "County" before the name. No one says "County Derby" for example as it would sound silly, we all need to start a campaign to get it called Durhamshire, Durhamset, Durhamfolk, or Durhamland for the sake of county naming conventions.

 

[507020]

The six counties of NI are in the UK, the other 26 counties of Ireland left the Union in the 1920s. I once told somebody I was from County Durham originally, they replied "Oh, I didn't realise you were Irish".

That should of course then be Great Britain and Northern Ireland. None of the counties of Northern Ireland nor the other 26 counties of Ireland are or ever have been part of Great Britain since they are on their own island with its own track gauge. Whenever you find yourself needing to remind someone of this make sure to have a British passport to hand with the words United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the front.

 

[DarloRich]

we all need to start a campaign to get it called Durhamshire, Durhamset, Durhamfolk, or Durhamland for the sake of county naming conventions

No we don't.

 

[D6130]

No we don't.

I'll second that - having been born in the palatinate, although brought-up and educated in Scotland.

 

[C J Snarzell]

I too want to know which county this is. There are a little over 3,000 breweries in the UK.

Aren't Herefordshire and Northamptonshire still big brewery areas?

CJ

 

[xotGD]

Nobody has answered "Greater London".

Likewise, nobody has answered with a pretendy post-1974 county like Cleveland or Tyne & Wear.

Goes to show what we all think of when it comes to counties.

 

[Purple Orange]

Nobody has answered "Greater London".

Likewise, nobody has answered with a pretendy post-1974 county like Cleveland or Tyne & Wear.

Goes to show what we all think of when it comes to counties.

Must be an age thing. I grew up in Tyne & Wear, not Northumberland - that’s where the bumpkins live.

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I’d say Greater London is more of a city than a county in the traditional sense.

 

[D6968]

Slightly biased as a Black Country lad and not long back from a weekend at the folks in Bewdley, I have to say I’ve a rather soft spot for Worcestershire, simply beautiful! Although being based in Cambridge Norfolk and Suffolk both offer a rather nice contrast. For such a small Island this little bit of Rock packs in quite a bit!

 

[D6130]

Aren't Herefordshire and Northamptonshire still big brewery areas?

Not really....although Herefordshire is a big cider area.

 

[Bertone]

Perhaps I should be loyal to Hertfordshire with the picturesque rolling Chiltern hills.
Unfortunately, these are shared with Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire !

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Likewise, nobody has answered with a pretendy post-1974 county like Cleveland or Tyne & Wear.

Goes to show what we all think of when it comes to counties.

In that case, how about Cumbria?

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

Must be an age thing....

I'm 29, it's not an age thing, it's common sense. You can't refer to Yorkshire unless using the traditional counties, otherwise there would be overlaps when talking about the modern Greater Manchester (Saddlesworth), Cleveland (Middlebrough), Cumbria, Lancashire (Barnoldswick) and Durham areas as they all include little bits of Yorkshire. Also the Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Counties fail to include Greater London and the Isles of Scilly.
Many of the new "counties" like Humberside, Avon, Cleveland, Hereford and Worcester have already gone extinct, and more are following suit, such as Cumbria which will spilt into Cumberland, and Westmorland and Furness in 2023. The traditional counties will never die.

Names for two controversial Cumbria councils revealed

The government wants to replace Cumbria;s county and district councils with two new authorities.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[yorksrob]

I'm 29, it's not an age thing, it's common sense. You can't refer to Yorkshire unless using the traditional counties, otherwise there would be overlaps when talking about the modern Greater Manchester (Saddlesworth), Cleveland (Middlebrough), Cumbria, Lancashire (Barnoldswick) and Durham areas as they all include little bits of Yorkshire. Also the Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Counties fail to include Greater London and the Isles of Scilly.
Many of the new "counties" like Humberside, Avon, Cleveland, Hereford and Worcester have already gone extinct, and more are following suit, such as Cumbria which will spilt into Cumberland, and Westmorland and Furness in 2023. The traditional counties will never die.

Names for two controversial Cumbria councils revealed

The government wants to replace Cumbria;s county and district councils with two new authorities.

www.bbc.co.uk

If like to see Palatine Lancashire restored, including Furness.

 

[GrimsbyPacer]

If like to see Paletine Lancashire restored, including Furness.

Me too.

 

[Busaholic]

Nobody has answered "Greater London".

Let me be the first then, although I might just make it the pre-1965 London County Council area in which I grew up. Admittedly, when I say favourite I wouldn't be very keen on living there permanently now, even if I could afford to.

 

[Purple Orange]

I'm 29, it's not an age thing, it's common sense. You can't refer to Yorkshire unless using the traditional counties, otherwise there would be overlaps when talking about the modern Greater Manchester (Saddlesworth), Cleveland (Middlebrough), Cumbria, Lancashire (Barnoldswick) and Durham areas as they all include little bits of Yorkshire. Also the Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Counties fail to include Greater London and the Isles of Scilly.
Many of the new "counties" like Humberside, Avon, Cleveland, Hereford and Worcester have already gone extinct, and more are following suit, such as Cumbria which will spilt into Cumberland, and Westmorland and Furness in 2023. The traditional counties will never die.

Names for two controversial Cumbria councils revealed

The government wants to replace Cumbria;s county and district councils with two new authorities.

www.bbc.co.uk

‘Common sense’ is a very subjective concept. I think people need to acknowledge that places like Greater Manchester, Greater London are not counties. They are metropolitan cities, which is a more fitting description of what they really are, and indeed they are officially City Regions.

I also think you’re placing too much emphasis on the permanence of a county. Many areas have switched county in the past. Sandhurst has officially been in Berkshire and in Surrey at different times.

 

[341o2]

Devon, Glorious Devon
Cornwall (And shall Trelawney die?)
Isles of Scilly (These are the Scilly Isles, we are governed by idiots)

 

[satisnek]

Has to be Derbyshire.

 

[Elmers End]

The Isle of Wight was a county I believe before it was subsumed into Hampshire.
If it wasn't for the outrageous ferry fares I would visit far more often.
Being a shiny-trousered soft Southerner I feel duty bound to offer Surrey as a county with attractive countryside (e.g. the Surrey Hills) and being conveniently close to the Metropolis should that be a necessity, but I have to say E Yorkshire has a lot to offer in terms of moorland scenery and coastal charms.

 

[Calthrop]

The Isle of Wight was a county I believe before it was subsumed into Hampshire.
If it wasn't for the outrageous ferry fares I would visit far more often.

Unless I'm much mistaken, the IOW is a county in its own right: was once part of Hampshire, but received county status many decades ago. (I too love the Island, and go there whenever I can; admit, though, to -- while "being aware, via head" that it's a separate county -- tending per gut feeling, to lump it in with Hampshire; though liking it no less, for that.)

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Isles of Scilly (These are the Scilly Isles, we are governed by idiots)

Is this location a separate County?

 

[Elmers End]

Unless I'm much mistaken, the IOW is a county in its own right: was once part of Hampshire, but received county status many decades ago. (I too love the Island, and go there whenever I can; admit, though, to -- while "being aware, via head" that it's a separate county -- tending per gut feeling, to lump it in with Hampshire; though liking it no less, for that.)

I think it is I who was mistaken. The IoW seems to have annexed itself from Hampshire as an administrative county in 1890(!) but shared the same Lord Lieutenant until 1974 and still shares its Police, Fire and Rescue services with Hants.

 

[Busaholic]

Is this location a separate County?

Not in administrative terms, but it is considered part of Cornwall for ceremonial purposes. Cornwall Council also provide certain services on, presumably, an outsourcing basis. It's one of these situations that seem beloved of the British, which is further complicated by Tresco, the second largest of the islands, being owned by the Crown and administered on their behalf by the Duchy of Cornwall who lease it on a long-term basis to the Dorrien-Smith family, whose fiefdom extends to every aspect of island life.

 

[xotGD]

Not in administrative terms, but it is considered part of Cornwall for ceremonial purposes. Cornwall Council also provide certain services on, presumably, an outsourcing basis. It's one of these situations that seem beloved of the British, which is further complicated by Tresco, the second largest of the islands, being owned by the Crown and administered on their behalf by the Duchy of Cornwall who lease it on a long-term basis to the Dorrien-Smith family, whose fiefdom extends to every aspect of island life.

So less of a county, more of a totalitarian dictatorship?

 

[D6130]

So less of a county, more of a totalitarian dictatorship?

....with a supermarket? (Oh no! - sorry, that's Tesco! )

 

[TSWFan2020]

Greater Manchester

 

[Busaholic]

So less of a county, more of a totalitarian dictatorship?

Shall we leave it at Mr Dorrien-Smith doesn't brook dissenters? His fiefdom doesn't extend to the other islands, although he does own and run the Hell Bay Hotel on Bryher, which has been in the news in recent years in ways that he wouldn't have been very pleased with,