Ceremonial county

Ceremonial counties of England

Northumberland Tyne and Wear Durham Cumbria Lancashire North Yorkshire East Riding of Yorkshire South Yorkshire West Yorkshire Greater Manchester Merseyside Cheshire Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Lincolnshire Rutland Leicestershire Staffordshire Shropshire Herefordshire Worcestershire West Midlands Warwickshire Northamptonshire Cambridgeshire Norfolk Suffolk Essex Hertfordshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Gloucestershire Bristol Somerset Wiltshire Berkshire Greater London Kent East Sussex West Sussex Surrey Hampshire Isle of Wight Dorset Devon Cornwall

The ceremonial counties first diverged from the traditional counties of England in 1373, when a Lord-Lieutenant of Bristol was created. They diverged much further in 1974 when they were aligned with the administrative counties. Following the reorganisation of the administrative counties in the 1990s, they are no longer aligned with these either.

See also: Ceremonial counties of Wales, Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, Administrative counties of England, Traditional counties of England, UK topics.

• Bedfordshire, including Luton
• Berkshire
• Bristol
• Buckinghamshire, including Milton Keynes
• Cambridgeshire, including Peterborough
• Cheshire, including Halton and Warrington
• City of London
• Cornwall, including Isles of Scilly
• Cumbria
• Derbyshire, including Derby
• Devon, including Plymouth and Torbay
• Dorset, including Bournemouth and Poole
• Durham, including Darlington, Hartlepool, and Stockton-on-Tees north of the river
• East Riding of Yorkshire, including Kingston-upon-Hull
• East Sussex, including Brighton and Hove
• Essex, including Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock
• Gloucestershire, including South Gloucestershire
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Hampshire, including Southampton and Portsmouth
• Herefordshire
• Hertfordshire
• Isle of Wight
• Kent, including Medway Towns
• Lancashire, including Blackburn with Darwen, and Blackpool
• Leicestershire, including Leicester
• Lincolnshire, including North Lincolnshire, and North East Lincolnshire
• Merseyside
• Norfolk
• North Yorkshire, including York, Middlesbrough, Redcar, Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees south of the river
• Northamptonshire
• Northumberland
• Rutland
• Shropshire, including Telford and Wrekin
• Somerset, including Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset
• South Yorkshire
• Staffordshire, including Stoke-on-Trent
• Suffolk
• Surrey
• Tyne and Wear
• Warwickshire
• West Midlands
• West Sussex
• West Yorkshire
• Wiltshire, including Swindon
• Worcestershire