Making progress on English ceremonial counties

Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:08:21 +0000

I've been working on UK polygons to use Ceremonial Counties as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England for Project-GC's county map.

I'm fairly sure I've got the mappings from ceremonial counties to Geocaching Regions correct however I'd appreciate feedback from English users to confirm I've correctly allocated them.

The key ones I'm not 100% on is the boundaries (east and west) of Southern England.

East Midlands

Derbyshire

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Nottinghamshire

Northamptonshire

Rutland

Eastern England

*Bedfordshire (Southern England?)

Cambridgeshire

Essex

*Hertfordshire (Southern England?)

Norfolk

Suffolk

London

City of London

Greater London

Northeast England

County Durham

Northumberland

Tyne and Wear

Northwest England

Cheshire

Cumbria

Greater Manchester

Lancashire

Merseyside

Southeast England

East Sussex

Kent

Surrey

West Sussex

Southern England

Berkshire

Buckinghamshire

Hampshire

Isle of Wight

Oxfordshire

South West England

City of Bristol

Cornwall

Devon

*Dorset (Southern England?)

*Gloucestershire (Southern England?)

Someret

*Wiltshire (Southern England?)

West Midlands

Herefordshire

Shropshire

Staffordshire

Warwickshire

West Midlands

Worcestershire

Yorkshire

East Riding of Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

I'm fairly sure the rest is right but please let me know if I've got anything wrong. Note these are the CURRENT ceremonial counties as defined by the Lieutenancies Act 1997.

English counties do not make any sense. Will these be changed to accurately reflect the definition of a county?

Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:28:32 +0000

The "counties" used by project GC in England bear no relationship to counties used by any group, including government. Torbay, for example is a unitary authority and part of the county of Devon. The same is true for The City of Leicester - a part of the county of Leicestershire and not a county in its own right. Other unitary authories, West Berkshire and The City of York, for example, are correctly shown as parts of their respective counties and not split out. Can someone please explain the reason for chosing the list of counties as shown. Also, is anyone aware of plans to either go with ceremonial counties (which most will prefer and which would match groundspeak, GSAK and most related challenge caches) or wholly with unitary authorities (which very few people use)

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Making progress on English ceremonial counties

English counties do not make any sense. Will these be changed to accurately reflect the definition of a county?