| Excellent geographic/historical quiz. I would suggest a few additions/amendments. The City of London, Soke of Peterborough and Isle of Ely were all historic counties of equal standing and should be included (although their county towns are obvious). Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Suffolk and Sussex were all subdivided and there "ridings" or subdivisions had their own county towns (including Northallerton, Wakefield, Beverley, Sleaford, Spalding and Bury St Edmunds). The original county towns of Wiltshire, Buckinghamshire and Hampshire were Wilton, Buckingham and Southampton respectively (after which each county was named). Reading preceded Abingdon as county town of Berkshire, and Bodmin preceded Truro in Cornwall (as Lanceston preceded Bodmin). However we could go on like this ad infinitum. |
Historic Counties of England
Ceremonial Counties of England
Counties of Wales
