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This "guideline" seems to be out of date (e.g. it claims that Berkshire is an administrative county) and generally not much use to anyone (all it seems to be saying is that when saying what county somewhere is in, we should say what county it's in ''now'' as opposed to what county it used to be in at some point in history, unless we're talking about that point in history). This all seems to be covered much more clearly and comprehensively at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about counties]], so I suggest we make this page into a redirect to that one (it's silly to have two different pages on the same topic anyway). Any objections? Anything anyone considers valuable on this page that isn't already at the other page?--[[User:Kotniski|Kotniski]] ([[User talk:Kotniski|talk]]) 12:29, 6 November 2010 (UTC) |
This "guideline" seems to be out of date (e.g. it claims that Berkshire is an administrative county) and generally not much use to anyone (all it seems to be saying is that when saying what county somewhere is in, we should say what county it's in ''now'' as opposed to what county it used to be in at some point in history, unless we're talking about that point in history). This all seems to be covered much more clearly and comprehensively at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about counties]], so I suggest we make this page into a redirect to that one (it's silly to have two different pages on the same topic anyway). Any objections? Anything anyone considers valuable on this page that isn't already at the other page?--[[User:Kotniski|Kotniski]] ([[User talk:Kotniski|talk]]) 12:29, 6 November 2010 (UTC) |
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:I agree. - [[User:Jarry1250|Jarry1250]] <sup>[''[[Special:Contributions/Jarry1250|Who?]] [[User_talk:Jarry1250|Discuss]].'']</sup> 19:22, 9 November 2010 (UTC) |
:I agree. - [[User:Jarry1250|Jarry1250]] <sup>[''[[Special:Contributions/Jarry1250|Who?]] [[User_talk:Jarry1250|Discuss]].'']</sup> 19:22, 9 November 2010 (UTC) |
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What is this legal status? Middlesex, famously, no longer has a council, but in what sense did it lose a legal status which the Met. Counties didn't? [[User:Cardinal 1962|Cardinal 1962]] ([[User talk:Cardinal 1962|talk]]) 08:07, 4 April 2024 (UTC) |
What is this legal status? Middlesex, famously, no longer has a council, but in what sense did it lose a legal status which the Met. Counties didn't? [[User:Cardinal 1962|Cardinal 1962]] ([[User talk:Cardinal 1962|talk]]) 08:07, 4 April 2024 (UTC) |
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:Metropolitan counties continued to exist because services were still organised on a county basis after 1974. If you look at [[Local Government Act 1985]] you can see all the many joint bodies organised on a county basis. They also continued to be used for [[lieutenancy areas]] and these are still defined in reference to the metropolitan counties in those areas. [[User:MRSC|MRSC]] ([[User talk:MRSC|talk]]) 09:02, 5 July 2025 (UTC) |
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