Name as many UK counties as you can!
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This includes counties in England (47), Scotland (32), Wales (22) and Northern Ireland (6). |
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bill   | | posted 25-Aug-2004 6:45am |
*clueless* | Enheduanna  | | posted 25-Aug-2004 6:54am |
Devonshire, Shropshire...OK, that's all I can think of for England. For Scotland, I have no idea. Wales I also have no idea--the names are probably like Chlydhlgieylchys (pronounced "Cull") or something. Ireland there's Ulster (maybe?) and...um...OK, I have no idea here either. | | FordGuy | | posted 25-Aug-2004 7:41am |
Two. Hampshire because I've heard that one on TV. And Kent, because that's the same county I live in here in Michigan and for some reason that stuck. That's about it! I should have studied!!! | | Iseult | | posted 25-Aug-2004 7:46am |
England:
Bedforshire, Berkshire, Bradford, Bristol, Cambridgeshire, Cornwell, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Gloucestershire, East Sussex, Essex, Herefordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Southhampton, Straffordshire, Suffolk, Summerset, Surrey, Warwickshire, Wessex, West Sussex, Wiltshire, York,
Alba:
Aberdeenshire, Berwickshire, Caithness, East Lothian, Fife, Inverness, Kirkcudbrightshire, Midlothian, Morayshire, Peeblesshire, Ross, Roxburghshire, Shetland, Stirling, West Lothian
Cymru:
Anglesey, Caadnarfonshire, Cardiganshire, Pembrookshire
Ulster:
Armagh, Atrim, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Tyrone, | | Maarten | | posted 25-Aug-2004 7:46am |
N-Ireland: I am sure of: Armagh, Fermanagh, Derry, Down, Tyrone and Antrim.
Cymru/Wales: I am sure of: Cardiff and Conwy. I know these because I have been there. Can't think of any other. Probably Llanfairpwlltychogogoch as well? 
Scotland: I am sure of: Fife and Inverness.
I know these because they are football clubs as well.
Others maybe: Glasgow, Edinburgh... or are they just cities? The Shetlands perhaps?
England: I am sure of: Yorkshire, Essex, Middlesex, Sussex, Lancashire, Isle of Man, Cornwall, Nottingham and Kent.
Others maybe: Greater London, Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Wight.
| | Iseult |
LOL @ your Welsh pronounciation joke
Ulster is not a shire, but name for North Ireland | | Maarten | | (reply to Iseult) posted 25-Aug-2004 7:51am |
Donegal is Eire and Londonderry is a part of Belfast. | | Maarten | | (reply to Iseult) posted 25-Aug-2004 7:56am |
Wait... Londonderry actually IS a county, I just looked it up. I never made the link Derry - Londonderry.  | icurok  | | posted 25-Aug-2004 8:26am |
Ok, you asked for it!
Let's start off with the easiest. The 6 Ulster counties that make up Northern Ireland are:
County Antrim, Country Armagh, County Down, County Fermanagh, County Londonderry (not Derry, which is the official name of the council) and County Tyrone.
(County Cavan, County Donegal and County Monaghan are part of Ulster, but are actually in Eire)
They changed Wales from 8 counties to 22 recently. The 8 used to be:
Gwynedd, Gwent, Clwyd, Powys, Dyfedd, Mid Glamorgan, West Glamorgan and South Glamorgan.
I'm not sure which of these still exist. But I'm pretty sure that at least some of them have been split up into Anglesey, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire and a whole bunch of others.
Onto England which should be the easiest for me.
Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, East Riding of Yorkshire, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Greater London, Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Merseyside, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire <-- me, Suffolk, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Midlands, West Sussex, West Yorkshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire. That's 44.
And Scotland is a tough one too.
Midlothian, West Lothian, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dumfries and Galloway, Highlands, Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross, Lanarkshire, Shetlands, Orkneys, Dumbartonshire, Angus, Fife, Borders, Stirling, Dundee, Falkirk.. 18.
| | Biggles | | posted 25-Aug-2004 8:59am |
England: Country Durham, Northumberland, Humberside, South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Kent, Dover, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Essex, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cumbria, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Nottinghamshire, Wessex (? I don't think that exists anymore), Northamptonshire, Norfolk, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire (that must be made up!) , London (???), Greater London (??????)
N.Ireland: (I won't get any of these - I get counties of Ireland mixed up with NI) Antrim,
Wales: Anglesey, Gwynnned, Ceredignon (that might be a town), Powys (I think that's just Welsh for Wales), there's another one starting with C....
Scotland: I have no idea.
OK, so this is my survey and I'm not very good at this! | | Zang | | posted 25-Aug-2004 9:02am |
I only know some English ones: Cumbria, Northumberland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Merseyside, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Sussex, Wessex, Surrey, Kent, Devon & Cornwall. | | Biggles | | (reply to icurok) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:07am |
Ouch - you did well! I can't believe I missed Hertfordshire when I go to Hertford College! Can't believe I missed Rutland either.
I also don't know why I said Humberside was a county. How can it be when above the Humber is East Yorkshire and below is Lincolnshire? Half my maternal ancestors lived all around there - my grandparents still live there! | | Biggles | | (reply to Zang) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:07am |
You got some I didn't | | ROCKMAN | | posted 25-Aug-2004 9:12am |
I only know a few, but I do know there are a lot of shires. | | Zang | | (reply to Biggles) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:14am |
They have changed over the years, haven't they? My grandfather was from Westmorland. I know it isn't on the map anymore... | | Maarten | | (reply to Biggles) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:15am |
Welsh for Wales is Cymru. | | Biggles | | (reply to Zang) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:17am |
Yep. And Yorkshire got broken up in 4 different counties. | | Biggles | | (reply to Maarten) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:17am |
Of course it is - silly me | | Maarten | | (reply to Biggles) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:18am |
What were you thinking?????
| | Biggles | | (reply to Maarten) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:20am |
I was thinking "Powys might be Welsh for Wales"  | | icurok | | (reply to Biggles) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:21am |
Rutland's been a county for 100s of years, but it was absorbed into Leicestershire in the 1970s. Growing up I hadn't really heard of it, except for geographical references like Rutland Water and cultural references like Eric Idle's Rutland Weekend Television. But I remember when they reinstated it's county status in the 90s. It was really big deal for the locals, even though its barely over 150sq miles. Balmoral's back garden is probably bigger than that!
The Northeast of England is probably the area I know the least about as I've never been, so although I'm kicking myself for missing Durham, I'm not that surprised. I was nearly going to say Cleveland. | | Maarten | | (reply to Biggles) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:22am |
And they let you in Oxford?? | | Biggles | | (reply to icurok) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:25am |
I remember all the hoohah about Rutland - that's why I'm surprised I forgot it. I only remember County Durham because a girl at my college is from there and got annoyed when all the southerners thought she was from Ireland because of the name. You would have thought they'd have noticed her accent.... | | Biggles | | (reply to Maarten) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:26am |
Yeah - I think they're kicking themselves over that too! | | Maarten | | (reply to Biggles) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:29am |
What's next? You handing in a paper on Great Mathematicians: Darwin? | | Biggles | | (reply to Maarten) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:30am |
Me messing up an exam that I was supposed to do well on. Oh, hang on, that happened already! | | Maarten | | (reply to Biggles) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:32am |
Oh no... 
How come? | | icurok | | (reply to Zang) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:34am |
Westmorland is one of the three areas that make up the county of Cumbria. The other two are Cumberland (like the sausage) and Furness (which is quite possibly the most depressingly bleak area in all of England). Think Flint, Michigan.
Westmorland is by contrast really nice, as it forms most of the Lake District and is the most mountainous region in England.
One of the biggest towns in Westmorland is Kendall, which has a mint cake named after it that apparently rock climbers use as a snackfood (as it's practically 100% sugar). Given it's remote location, it's also the type of place where when you walk into a newsagent in the high street, Cosmopolitan magazine is on the top shelf. They don't have multiple orgasms in Kendall.
There's also a hospital called Westmorland General Hospital. I know this because I was once rushed there after having a massive asthma attack whilst staying at a friend's rented farmhouse (which was huge and had no central heating). God bless the NHS . | | Biggles | | (reply to Maarten) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:44am |
I had two exams and was really worried about one and less about the other so I focused my revision on the one that scared me. Had the effect of letting me do much better than expected on the hard one and worse than I hoped for on the easier one! It balances out ok, but I shall have to work hard next year so that I don't lose out on the degree classification that I want. My average for this year was 62% (56% and 68%) and I need 60%+ overall at the end of my degree to get a 2:1 (the second highest). | | Iseult | | (reply to Maarten) posted 25-Aug-2004 9:57am |
I know Irish counties because I have this book on Irish Family Names. It has a map and I would often go over it and try to figure out which last name came from where. Don't ask me why, I just have really werid hobbies. | | Maarten | | (reply to Biggles) posted 25-Aug-2004 10:03am |
A classic mistake! | | Maarten | | (reply to Iseult) posted 25-Aug-2004 10:04am |
I enjoy looking at maps as well. It's a great way to relive memories. | | Iseult | | (reply to Maarten) posted 25-Aug-2004 10:16am |
Yeah, kind of like looking at pictures or your old receipts.
Sometimes, I know this sounds crazy, but I look over maps and then I re-arrange the borders | | Biggles | | (reply to Maarten) posted 25-Aug-2004 10:18am |
Yep - I shall remember to spread my focus for next year's exams | | autumnlight | | posted 25-Aug-2004 10:26am |
England - Cheshire, Wiltshire,Derbyshire, Hampshire, Essex, Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Somerset, Cumbria, Lancashire, East and West sussex, Kent, Surrey, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire.
Wales - Camarthenshire, Gwynedd, Anglesey.
N. Ireland - Armargh, Antrim, Down, Derry.
| | Biggles |
No Greater Manchester? | | Maarten | | (reply to Iseult) posted 25-Aug-2004 10:34am |
Expanding the Canadian territory?  | | Iseult | | (reply to Maarten) posted 25-Aug-2004 10:58am |
Sometimes, sometimes I'm screwing around with Europe, and giving Bohemia and Prussia back what they had. But ever since heyzeus made me the Duchess of Canada, I decided we should go in expansion.
ps our first target is the Netherlands. | | Maarten | | (reply to Iseult) posted 25-Aug-2004 11:16am |
Great... we need some space and Canada is an excellent option! | | they | | posted 25-Aug-2004 12:09pm |
um... huh? | | Biggles | | (reply to they) posted 25-Aug-2004 12:11pm |
Come on, you must be able to get one! Where do I live? | | Danger | | posted 25-Aug-2004 12:22pm |
. | | thevelvetcure | | posted 25-Aug-2004 1:22pm |
:  Do I have to designate which goes where? ...and since when where there so many counties?!?!?!?
Island of Islay (best scotch ever...Laphroaig)
Highlands
Manchester
Cork
(in some area they call the people Westies)
ummm....
uhhhh....
 | | thevelvetcure | | (reply to Biggles) posted 25-Aug-2004 1:29pm |
I totally bombed this one. It's weird b/c after reading through all the names, how can one forget Kent or Devon, etc...ahhh well. I'm just a dumb american | | Biggles |
 There are plenty who haven't even dare try though! | | they | | (reply to Biggles) posted 25-Aug-2004 1:40pm |
 England?
I read the ones that were given after I typed that and recognized a lot of them.. but I probably could have only come up with a very few if I'd spent more time with it. | | thevelvetcure | | (reply to Biggles) posted 25-Aug-2004 1:40pm |
Tis true...did any of mine make the cut?!?! I think I named more towns if anything. | | Iseult | | (reply to Maarten) posted 25-Aug-2004 1:43pm |
You can have a barony in Quebec. | | Iseult |
I think that Island of Islay is, indeed, a county. Manchester might be, too. | | icurok |
The Island of Islay is part of Argyllshire (as are the isles of Mull and Jura). Manchester is the name of the city. Greater Manchester is the name of the county. Cork is in the Republic or Ireland. Highland is correct though. | | icurok | | (reply to Iseult) posted 25-Aug-2004 1:55pm |
see my reply to thevelvetcure | | thevelvetcure | | (reply to icurok) posted 25-Aug-2004 2:09pm |
I just started getting desperate for county names there...could you tell? I was pretty sure that Cork was in Ireland, the Highlands I got lucky on, I know it's a whiskey / scotch region (as is the Isle of Islay) and that's the only reason that I even knew of those. At least I can say I got one of them though | | Enheduanna | | (reply to Iseult) posted 25-Aug-2004 2:18pm |
I thought maybe Ulster was a county, too! I figured I might be wrong about that, but I thought I'd give it a shot! If I'd gotten it right, nobody would have known I was guessing! | | icurok |
You could've cheated and looked at the user profiles of us Brits | | thevelvetcure | | (reply to icurok) posted 25-Aug-2004 2:31pm |
tis true... but it's still cheating | | Maarten | | (reply to Iseult) posted 25-Aug-2004 2:40pm |
But my French is so mauvais. Don't you have anything for me in an English speaking part? | | Iseult | | (reply to icurok) posted 25-Aug-2004 6:15pm |
Oh fudge.
Okay, I'm going to go now and study British counties. | | Iseult | | (reply to Maarten) posted 25-Aug-2004 6:16pm |
Saskatchewan? | | Iseult |
See, that's the thing about being smart - you can bullcrap your way almost through anything. | | southernyankee | | posted 25-Aug-2004 6:38pm |
none.
is Manchaster one of them? | | Enheduanna | | (reply to Iseult) posted 25-Aug-2004 6:54pm |
That's really the thing about bullcrapting, not about being smart! | | icurok | | (reply to Iseult) posted 25-Aug-2004 7:06pm |
> Oh fudge.
> Okay, I'm going to go now and study British counties.
You actually did really well. Much better than I expected anyone from across the pond to do. I'll be nice and assume that St raffordshire was a typo, it is my home after all .
You could probably do with buying a newer reference book though. Berwickshire, Caithness, Inverness, Kirkcudbrightshire, Peeblesshire, Ross and Roxburghshire all lost their county status 30 years ago.
| | ElvisFan67 | | posted 25-Aug-2004 7:13pm |
I didn't know the UK had counties. | | Iseult |
Oops, sorry about Straffordshire.
I guess I got the Scottish ones wrong because I probably learnt about them from the History. | | Maarten | | (reply to Iseult) posted 26-Aug-2004 1:47am |
Sounds great! Maarten, Baron of Saskatchewan.
Now all I have to do is to learn how to pronounce Saskatchewan. | Strider  | | (reply to Maarten) posted 26-Aug-2004 2:11am |
> Sounds great! Maarten, Baron of Saskatchewan.
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> Now all I have to do is to learn how to pronounce
> Saskatchewan.
it's SAS-catch - u- won | | Maarten | | (reply to Strider) posted 26-Aug-2004 8:23am |
Thanks!
I Sascatchifyoucan worth owning? | | Iseult | | (reply to Maarten) posted 26-Aug-2004 8:49am |
Sass-kaa-chew-an
Or Sass-kah-che-wan
Personally, I pronounce it Sass-KAH-ch-wan, but I think it's wrong. | | Zang | | (reply to Biggles) posted 27-Aug-2004 4:06pm |
I noticed that when I was looking at the other responses. Was that very recent? I was there in 1990 - 1991. I wasn't aware of it at the time. | | Biggles | | (reply to Zang) posted 27-Aug-2004 4:14pm |
I don't remember to be honest. I've always used South Yorkshire as my address but then that would probably have been the case even before it split officially - it's always been in four ridings (parts). | | Zang | | (reply to icurok) posted 27-Aug-2004 4:17pm |
I think my family is from further north, getting real close to Cumberland. Three quarters of my ancestry is from the vicinity of the border between Scotland and England. | | Zang | | (reply to Biggles) posted 27-Aug-2004 4:18pm |
And I'm sure people still refer to the area as Yorkshire anyway... | | Biggles | | (reply to Zang) posted 27-Aug-2004 4:19pm |
I don't think many people know that it isn't one county, not even everyone who lives there. | | Zang | | (reply to Biggles) posted 27-Aug-2004 4:21pm |
English people have more important things to concern themselves with! | | Biggles | | (reply to Zang) posted 27-Aug-2004 4:23pm |
Such as...? | | kaleb777 | | posted 27-Aug-2004 4:36pm |
Yorkshire, Northumberland, Essex, Sussex, Wessex, London metro, Cornwall, Kent, Clacmanninshire, .........
This is hard! | | Dino | | posted 27-Aug-2004 6:44pm |
Oh hellfire and brimstone!
I'd fail miserably at this - and its my own country.
I'll pass - as its way too long and I haven't got all night. | | darkshadowsseeker | | posted 29-Aug-2004 9:50pm |
Yorkshire, Sussex and Essex are all that come to mind, but I know that there are tons more! I'm a big dummy! | | Zang | | (reply to Biggles) posted 30-Aug-2004 11:23am |
Getting the crumbs out of those little things you set the tea pot on. | | Biggles | | (reply to Zang) posted 30-Aug-2004 11:32am |
That can be really hard. | | anonymous | | posted 31-Aug-2004 7:06am |
London, France, Spain, Germany, Iceland, Irish Republic, Czech Republic, Denmark, Portugal, Norway and Sweden | | anonymous | | posted 31-Aug-2004 7:07am |
England:
Bedforshire, Berkshire, Bradford, Bristol, Cambridgeshire, Cornwell, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Gloucestershire, East Sussex, Essex, Herefordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Southhampton, Straffordshire, Suffolk, Summerset, Surrey, Warwickshire, Wessex, West Sussex, Wiltshire, York, London, France, Spain, Germany, Iceland, Irish Republic, Czech Republic, Denmark, Portugal, Norway and Sweden | | Biggles | | (reply to anonymous) posted 31-Aug-2004 7:29am |
Ok, somebody got it wrong big time! | | ASexyBabe |
sorry my brain hurts too bad just thinking of trying this challenge. | | caviartaste |
nooooo....counties are different!!!!!!! We have counties tooo!!! Can you name even one county in the State of Alabama? I didn't think so.....
I can't think of a single frieking one. If they're the same as city names I might do ok....but nobody's ever told me if that's the case.... | | caviartaste |
Oh I knew about Derry, Ireland, because I have a friend from there who lives here now....so that one counts for me. I love his accent. | | autumnlight | | (reply to Biggles) posted 8-Sep-2004 4:02pm |
Doh! | | Biggles |
Hey hey How are you? | | autumnlight | | (reply to Biggles) posted 11-Sep-2004 6:07pm |
I'm good thanks. Things are a lot hectic at the moment, but generally I'm fine. How are things with you? | | Biggles |
A bit boring. I'm stuck in Oxford with no-one else I know here most of the time. I'm waiting on my project supervisors to actually do what they're supposed to be doing and getting more and more irritated with them! But apart from that, all is good | | autumnlight | | (reply to Biggles) posted 14-Sep-2004 3:09pm |
I'm glad. Project supervisor? What is the project?
I get my exam results on Friday so wish me luck. I couldn't do them in June as my dad was ill. He is feeling a lot better now though thankfully. | | Biggles |
Good luck with your exam results
I'm having to do a project that goes towards my degree. I'm trying to work out what data can be used to predict mosquito distributions in Europe. Unfortunately, I don't have any data to work with yet as my supervisor hasn't extracted it fom his software yet. Three weeks ago he said it would be just after that weekend. Last Tuesday he said it would be about 2 days. He hasn't yet responded to my email that I sent yesterday morning. ARGH! | | autumnlight | | (reply to Biggles) posted 14-Sep-2004 3:47pm |
Crikey, it's not often that supervisors are slack and not the student! | | Biggles |
Mine have been rubbish. I've been here for about 8 weeks over the summer so far and hardly got anything done because of them. I wouldn't mind so much but my rent is about £11 per night and I'll just have to do it during term-time instead which is going to be really hard going. | | autumnlight | | (reply to Biggles) posted 14-Sep-2004 3:52pm |
Maybe if they are that bad, you should complain about them. I would, especially if I am spending extra money and they are supposed to be helping me! | | Biggles |
I would, but I doubt that they'll feel more helpful towards me then! Also, they have to recommend a grade for the finished thing so I don't want to piss them off. I shall be telling all the 2nd years to avoid them like the plague though. | | autumnlight | | (reply to Biggles) posted 15-Sep-2004 10:13am |
Aaah, I see your point. I hope it all turns out alright for you anyway! | | Biggles |
Still no word from them. I'm hoping my father may be able to collect me a week early and I can tell them I'm going home and will do it during term time instead by which time perhaps they could have got their act together...? | | autumnlight | | (reply to Biggles) posted 15-Sep-2004 10:17am |
You would hope so! At least you get to spend some time with your family! | | Biggles |
Hopefully |
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