Can you name the Traditional (Historic) Counties of England?

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Hist. Counties of England Quiz

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Created Jan 17, 2008 in Geography
Featured Jan 17, 2008
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	thevictor390:	Nov 20th, 2008 at 16:20 GMT	16 points
	Cheshire cat? Worcestershire sauce? You'd be surprised. Also being from central Massachusetts I was able to guess a lot of them. I live near the towns of Worcester, Leicester, and Oxford. New Hampshire and New York are nearby states. Cambridge is near Boston. Rutland a town somewhere around here. Central Mass is Middlesex county. Etc.

	GeordieGuitarist:	Dec 22nd, 2008 at 00:25 GMT	2 points
	Forgot Westmorland and Huntingdonshire.

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	LaStic:	Feb 6th, 2009 at 19:55 GMT	4 points
	Josh : must have been some bummer from Huntingdonshire (deceased)

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	capey:	Mar 3rd, 2009 at 23:22 GMT	13 points
	I used to have an old wooden jigsaw of the English counties as a kid, so this was quite nostalgic.

	StubbsyPVFC:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 23:24 GMT	1 point
	Got quite a few from the cricket county's but apart from that didn't get many.

	kupfernick:	Apr 5th, 2009 at 18:07 GMT	2 points
	20/39 Not bad for an American! When I saw the answers, I thought I should have gotten 10 more.

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	march:	May 29th, 2009 at 16:10 GMT	-1 points
	Forgot Huntingdonshire, gutted

	Davroche:	Jul 22nd, 2009 at 21:30 GMT	4 points
	I thought these where supposed to be historic. Where was Elyshire or the Soke of Peterborough? I suspect they mean counties from 1933 (Elyshire went then) until 1965 (Middlesex went then) Not a long time period for history!! I got them all correct but my spelling is rusty.

	Boomhauer:	Aug 12th, 2009 at 01:15 GMT	0 points
	Davroche, they are historic nevertheless. For a country that only formed as it is today in the 1920s, I'd say it was quite a big period too.

	foreverfreebird:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 16:40 GMT	6 points
	@ GeordieGuitarist: As of right now, 34,161 people have taken this quiz. If everyone posted their score or which one they forgot, the comment section would quickly become meaningless drivel. That's why you were voted down: unless you have a point to make, we don't need to know which ones you missed.

	LittleA:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 21:31 GMT	-1 points
	got them all! not bad for an American. fun quiz.

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	excusedboots:	Nov 1st, 2009 at 15:16 GMT	1 point
	Huntingshire spawned a tory prime minister (John Major). Westmorland was the southern part of the sausage county.

	ChileNoseJam:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 17:09 GMT	9 points
	I'm surprised no-one's complained yet that this quiz is insufficiently Americanocentric.

	geronimo95:	Jan 15th, 2010 at 15:38 GMT	-4 points
	this is quite different than the other version of this quiz on this site. the other one divides yorkshire into 4 parts and recognizes cumbria instead of cumberland...strange!

	warren:	Jan 15th, 2010 at 17:08 GMT	8 points
	geronimo95: these are the historic counties, the other is the current 'ceremonial' counties, which are kind of an evolution of this system. That's why they're different.

	iamaninja:	Jan 21st, 2010 at 20:48 GMT	4 points
	its kind of bad that i know more american states than english counties despite actually being from england :S

	JennyMarie:	Jan 29th, 2010 at 19:15 GMT	2 points
	iamaninja: I wouldnt worry about that, until very recently I was in exactly that position... It was only sporcle that taught me the counties I know now! Which of course, just goes to prove how brilliant this site is.

	WilliamRoberts:	Feb 25th, 2010 at 20:19 GMT	1 point
	Have possibly played this too much- just cleared it in 1:34

	zeppelinoid:	Apr 1st, 2010 at 19:21 GMT	-1 points
	The Isle of Ely was a county from 1889 to 1947. The Soke of Peterborough was an administrative county from 1889 until 1965 but was always regarded as a part of Northamptonshire. The City of London has been treated as a county since 1132 and still is.

	Getoka:	May 3rd, 2010 at 20:17 GMT	2 points
	Like Capey, I had a lovely wooden jigsaw of all the counties of England and consequently I know these well. My jigsaw divided Yorkshire into its three ridings.

	tulliuscicero:	Jul 31st, 2010 at 20:46 GMT	1 point
	Had all but three before succumbing to reading the comments and finding Leicester and Huntingdon. It took finding my atlas to get Hertford.

	hellofromUK:	Sep 2nd, 2010 at 10:47 GMT	6 points
	There's a line Eliza Dolittle says in 'My Fair Lady' where hurricanes hardly ever happen that gives you three answers!

	mistermac:	Sep 8th, 2010 at 14:54 GMT	4 points
	Somewhat surprised to see Huntingdonshire as the most missed. But then, I do live there... even today, there is still some debate in the region about whether Huntingdonshire should return to being a county in its own right. In many non-governmental fields, including 'county'-level sports, Huntingdonshire is still recognised.

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	loftyj37:	Dec 31st, 2010 at 16:01 GMT	1 point
	like so many others, gutted to have forgotten huntingdonshire!! Good quiz, though.

	Lionrose:	Mar 6th, 2011 at 15:19 GMT	0 points
	I didn't realise I was quite so provincial! Almost all my correct answers were in the southwest...(where I'm actually from). I really need to brush up on my geography.

	cdvillafan:	Sep 22nd, 2011 at 16:38 GMT	0 points
	Easy one for cricket fans!

	JD92:	Nov 9th, 2011 at 21:07 GMT	2 points
	Nice quiz. @Capey, the nostalgia is there for me too, I used to play an old Happy Families style game called 'Counties' when i was a kid. I guess i should've known then i was born for sporcle...

	willwoodlen:	Jan 17th, 2012 at 19:49 GMT	2 points
	LittleA: I was proud of myself for being American and getting 34/39. Congratulations!

	swannyforengland:	Jan 29th, 2012 at 21:57 GMT	5 points
	38 out of 39. I forgot Berkshire. Rather aptly, I feel like a berk.

	leedslad:	Mar 18th, 2012 at 00:42 GMT	0 points
	Easy peasy

	keith2901:	Mar 29th, 2012 at 11:15 GMT	0 points
	38/39, kept trying "County Durham" instead of just "Durham".How did i manage that?