Counties Of England.

[Beorn]

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Name the 48 ceremonial counties of England.

http://www.quizzes-online.com/map/counties.html


This confirmed what I already knew. Outside of the West, I am lost. :embarrassed

[Treffie]

I had 3 to do, for some reason Durham, West Yorkshire wont work!

[Loyalist]

Tried it three times, with my best score being 39 out of 48. :D I'll get that flying St. George's Cross if it's the last thing I do.


I had 3 to do, for some reason Durham, West Yorkshire wont work!

Durham has to be entered as "County Durham", and West Yorkshire seems to work for me. :confused:

[Æmeric]

I have less then 2 minutes & 2 to go. Durham has to be typed County Durham. I'm having trouble with the region between Northumberland & Durham. Newcastle?

Edit: Ran out of time.


In total, you named 46 counties.
A stellar performance!

The remaining counties are: City of London, Tyne and Wear,

There might be some surprises here, but the list really is accurate! See the Wikipedia article for full details.

I couldn't make out City of London on the map! I tried Tyneside for Tyne & Wear. I got the other 46 in less then 5 minutes.

[Treffie]

This one is good too, compulsive though!

http://www.mousebreaker.com/games/countycountup/play.php

[Vargtand]

I can name one or two :p

[Æmeric]

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This time I had 2:17 to spare, but I spent 3 minutes trying to get it to accept East Riding of Yorkshire.

[SwordoftheVistula]

Only got 11 of them

[Osweo]

I couldn't figure it out at first... I tried to enter Cumberland and got no response. And then I figured it out. ENGLAND has 39 counties, not 38!

*U*KI*G T**T "CEREMONIAL COUNTIES" :mad:

What the +U*K are they?!? I'm very angry.

Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Bristol - not a county, just a town in Somerset, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire has swallowed up HUNTINGDONSHIRE, Cheshire, City of London IDIOCY , Cornwall, County Durham, Cumbria DOES not EXIST, but is a Frankenstein's Monster of a County built out of Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire Over The Sands, and a bit of Yorkshire, Derbyshire has stolen Cheshire's eastern pan-handle, Devon, Dorset, East Riding of Yorkshire clearly a riding (Norse for 'third') and not a county, East Sussex half a wantonly dismembered county, Essex, Gloucestershire, Greater London butchered out of Middlesex, bits of Kent and others, Greater Manchester i.e. southern Lancashire with bits of Cheshire and Yorkshire, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight not a county, but a part of Hampshire (I think, forgive me, it's FAR away!), Kent, Lancashire butchered rump, and staple to an amputated Yorkshire Forest of Bowland, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Merseyside a sick joke, Norfolk, North Yorkshire a Riding, Northamptonshire has lost the Isle of Ely, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire stolen the Vale of the White Horse, Rutland I can't believe these buggers survived the carnage!, Shropshire, Somerset, South Yorkshire Ha!, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Tyne and Wear made up, Warwickshire, West Midlands, West Sussex the other half, West Yorkshire snort, Wiltshire.

THat is not an exhaustive list of the meddling and desecration involved.

It started in 1974, when they made up most of these. At the time, it was marketed as merely helping postal distribution and basic utilities. Then the new power hungry county councils made it take on a life of its own, and kids were taught about the 'new counties' as though they'd been there forever. Divide and conquer! Kill regional distinctions! These were the mottos of the day, and our own time.

New divisions came along, many ridiculously tiny, and unheard of out of their area, like 'Tameside' which they came up with for my region, i.e. a bit of Lancashire, a bit of Cheshire, and a tiny morsel of Yorkshire. Like the idiot sheep that most of my countrymen are, they went along with it. You can find books from the 80s and 90s and now that use the new divisions, when trying to inform the reader where a particular archaeological site or whatever is, and the reader is helpless unless he's completely up to date with the latest rejigging of it all. Idiots! Why not use the old counties, so that even older books on these matters are still comprehensible to the modern reader? Oh no, people might read dangerous things then, I suppose, such as risky things like the fact that everyone in England was once English...

Anyway, people were upset in many instances, and the powers that be pretended to listen and made up new 'ceremonial counties' to redress some of the damage. And yet we still haven't found our way back to the centuries old tried and tested original model :(

See the Friends of Real Lancashire
http://www.forl.co.uk/
and Association of British Counties
http://www.abcounties.co.uk/

An example of how even standing in the same place is becoming an uphill struggle for lovers of traditional English culture and identity...

[Æmeric]

Bristol - not a county, just a town in Somerset,

In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "that the said town of Bristol withall be a County by itself and called the County of Bristol for ever,". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bristol) So Bristol is on eof the historical counties of England.

[Osweo]

In 1373 Edward III proclaimed "that the said town of Bristol withall be a County by itself and called the County of Bristol for ever,". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bristol) So Bristol is one of the historical counties of England.

You didn't finish the wiki quote, the same sentence even!:

but maps usually showed it as part of Gloucestershire, until the county was enlarged in the 19th century, and as the city spilled south of the river, it took the county with it.

The King tried to innovate, and the people ignored him! :p Exactly how we should react to state meddling now. :thumb001: It was only a temporary half-hearted sort of measure, it would seem, and not one the Bristolians seem to have been too bothered about fighting for.

Gloucestershire, eh? I though it was Somerset. :( I can be forgiven this surely? It is a million miles from my house. I only went there once, for a University Open Day. Met a nice Durham girl on the train home too...

[Beorn]

Bristol, along with Liverpool (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool), became a significant centre for the slave trade although few slaves were brought to Britain. During the height of the slave trade, from 1700 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700) to 1807 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1807), more than 2000 slaving ships were fitted out at Bristol, carrying an estimated half a million people from Africa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa) to the Americas.

Catching the bus into the centre, you can still see the loading area and the hole leading into the rock face where the slaves were led upon arrival at Bristol.
I always remember being told that by my Dad whenever we went past it.



"This walk, based on a route constructed by the local council, traces the startling extent of Bristol's involvement in the slave trade. Start at the Bristol Industrial Museum, on Princes Wharf, which gives a brief account of the trade. With your back to the museum, turn right, cross the road and continue along the harbourside. At the end of Merchants Wharf, turn right and then left and cross the small footbridge to reach the Ostrich Inn pub. Around the corner is the derelict entrance to Redcliffe caves - local tales claim that slaves were incarcerated here, though this is unlikely, as the handful of slaves brought to Bristol were those who worked as servants to the merchants." - Source (http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/uk/in-the-footsteps-of-bristols-slave-traders-530373.html)

http://www.freewebs.com/erwoodfamilyhistory/Redcliffe%20wharf.jpg

http://www.freewebs.com/erwoodfamilyhistory/Recliffe%20caves.jpg

http://www.sweethistory.org/images/redcliffe-caves.jpg

[Æmeric]

Damn Bristol for transporting those slaves to America!:shakefist

[Albion]

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02:47

It'd be better if you had a list of names where you had to drag and drop the names of each county on the correct spot on the map. Anyone can think of county names of the top of their head. I often confuse different counties in Eastern and Southern England with others, such as Nottinghamshire and Northamptonshire.

[Graham]

Was rubbish! Only been to the South of England once. A caravan holiday in Great Yarmouth at 9 years old. The very north England was easy to name

[Peasant]

Why does East Yorkshire not work for the East Riding when it does for North, West and South. :mad: Had me well confused.

Also I named so few counties it was embarrassing. I had 29 I couldn't remember. The ones I got where in the North and the South West Peninsula.

:embarrassed

[Albion]

Was rubbish! Only been to the South of England once. A caravan holiday in Great Yarmouth at 9 years old. The very north England was easy to name

Yeah, I found Northern England easiest too, the counties are bigger and more distinct and I live closer to them. The South and East Midlands I found tough.

[Germanicus]

I named quite a few of the Southern counties, but alas i class the north starting at Worcester so from there i have not got the foggiest idea, except for Yorkshire and Lancashire it's a void.