Everything about Shire County totally explained
A
shire county or
non-metropolitan county in
England, is a
county level entity which isn't a
metropolitan county. The names of most, but not all, shire counties end in the suffix "-
shire" such as
Wiltshire or
Staffordshire. Some shire counties that historically had the -shire ending have lost it over time, such as
Devon, which was formerly known as Devon
shire. The counties typically have populations of 300,000 to 1.4 million.
The term is sometimes used in a restricted sense to refer only to the administrative counties that have a two-tier structure, of a
county council and
district councils. It therefore excludes the various
unitary districts, including
Herefordshire and
Rutland. The
Isle of Wight is a non-metropolitan county, but is also a unitary area, as its district councils have been abolished.
"Shire county" is, strictly, a dual-language
tautology, the word
county coming from
French and
shire from
Anglo-Saxon.
Of the 35 non-metropolitan counties in England, 34 have multiple districts and a county council:
» Bedfordshire,
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire,
Cheshire,
Cornwall,
Cumbria » Derbyshire,
Devon,
Dorset,
Durham
East Sussex,
Essex » Gloucestershire
Hampshire,
Hertfordshire » Kent
Lancashire,
Leicestershire,
Lincolnshire » Norfolk,
Northamptonshire,
Northumberland,
North Yorkshire,
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire » Shropshire,
Somerset,
Staffordshire,
Suffolk,
Surrey
Warwickshire,
West Sussex,
Wiltshire,
Worcestershire
The exception is
Berkshire which is a non-metropolitan county with multiple districts but no longer has a county council.
Technically, most unitary authorities in England are also non-metropolitan counties.
The term 'non-metropolitan county' is also sometimes used to refer to the eight Welsh counties created by the
Local Government Act 1972. Although the Act doesn't use the term specifically when referring to Wales, neither does it in general parts of the act distinguish between the Welsh entities and the English non-metropolitan counties, referring to both as non-metropolitan counties. The
Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 amends the Local Government Act 1972 such that the new
Welsh principal areas which have the status of counties are not implied to be non-metropolitan counties.
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