Counties which border yorkshire

Greater Manchester is defined as above. It is a general understanding. Bristol might be a better example. If the areas are not called counties or named after counties , that could create a form of distinction. What is that exactly, and what has that to do with counties? How can we look at the current distinctions? Saddleworth is therefore not in ceremonial West Yorkshire, unlike Calderdale, for example, which is, despite part of it being in historic, real Lancashire.

A similar map of Lancashire would show the western part of Calderdale — the town of Todmorden actually stands across the border between real Yorkshire and Lancashire. Cornholme is similarly in the same West Yorkshire borough, but entirely in historic Lancashire. They became single tier in None is a County in the normal sense of the word, though two of them borrow the name of one.

Appears not. Thank you Mr Garber for your patient attempt to explain the vagaries of tiers of local government which I came across while looking to see whether I found a butterfly in Yorkshire or Derbyshire. By the way Bristol used to be the City and County of Bristol for many years which was bordered by Somerset and Gloucestershire and then it became Avon before that was scrubbed.

This is an excellent example of how county confusion arises. More within Articles to the top. Manchester started life as a village in Lancashire, but was only about four miles from the Cheshire border down at Chorlton-cum-Hardy. Sheffield is just 1. What the hell is going on? Traditional counties around Sheffield. I have, at best, only a partial explanation for this. As I hinted above, the big factor here is rivers. The core of London grew up at a crossing of the Thames between what would later be Surrey and Middlesex.

Bristol, Newcastle, Liverpool and Middlesbrough were all port cities; in each case, the river that was the key to their existence Avon, Tyne, Mersey, Tees also marked the boundary between two counties. If you were dividing England into shires sometime in the 9th century, then rivers would be a quite helpful place to draw a line.

But a thousand years later, as the industrial revolution kicked in, those features could also make a riverbank quite a useful place to put a lot of people: both because docks needed workers, and because running water made a pretty good power source.

Please do write in. Traditional counties in the West Midlands. Back when Athelstan was still moving about, it probably made sense to treat the area between two rivers as a single government unit: it was defensible, and the people who lived there would consider themselves different from the people on the other side. But once trade became a thing, and then industrialisation happened, many rivers became more like roads than walls: the people either side of them were connected up in a single economic system.

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