Ceremonial counties of England

"Ceremonial counties" redirects here. For those used for a similar ceremonial purpose in Wales, see Preserved counties of Wales.

Not to be confused with the Historic counties of England.

Ceremonial counties,^[2] formally known as counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies,^[3] are areas of England to which lord-lieutenants are appointed. They are one of the two main legal definitions of the counties of England in modern usage, the other being the counties for the purposes of local government legislation. A lord-lieutenant is the monarch's representative in an area.^[4] Shrieval counties have the same boundaries and serve a similar purpose, being the areas to which high sheriffs are appointed. High sheriffs are the monarch's judicial representative in an area.^[5]

Ceremonial counties of England and shrieval counties of England
Northumberland Durham Lancashire Cheshire Derbs. Notts. Lincolnshire Leics. Staffs. Shropshire Warks. Northants. Norfolk Suffolk Essex Herts. Beds. Bucks. Oxon. Glos. Somerset Wiltshire Berkshire Kent Surrey Hampshire Dorset Devon Cornwall Heref. Worcs. Bristol East Riding of Yorkshire Rutland Cambs. Greater London Not shown: City of London Tyne & Wear Cumbria North Yorkshire South Yorks. West Yorkshire Greater Manc. Merseyside East Sussex West Sussex Isle of Wight West Midlands
Location	England
Number	48
Populations	8,000 (City of London) to 8,167,000 (Greater London)[1]
Areas	3km² to 8,611 km²
Densities	62/km² to 4,806/km²

The ceremonial counties are defined in the Lieutenancies Act 1997, and the shrieval counties in the Sheriffs Act 1887. Both are defined as groups of local government counties.

History

The predecessor geographic counties from 1889 to 1965.

The historic counties of England were originally used as areas for administering justice and organising the militia, overseen by a sheriff. From Tudor times onwards a lord-lieutenant was appointed to oversee the militia, taking some of the sheriff's functions.^[6]

Certain towns and cities were counties corporate, which gave them the right to appoint their own sheriffs and hold their own courts. Whilst in theory the counties corporate could have had separate lieutenants appointed for them, in practice all of them except London shared a lieutenant with the wider county from which they had been created.^[a] London had instead a commission of lieutenancy, headed by the Lord Mayor.^[7] The long-standing practice of appointing lieutenants jointly to the wider county and any counties corporate it contained was formalised by the Militia Act 1882.^[8]

Apart from the inclusion of the counties corporate, the counties for the purposes of lieutenancy generally corresponded to the judicial counties. The exception was Yorkshire, which was one judicial county, having a single Sheriff of Yorkshire, but from 1660 onwards each of Yorkshire's three ridings had its own lieutenant.

In 1889 elected county councils were established under the Local Government Act 1888, taking over the administrative functions of the quarter sessions. Certain towns and cities were made county boroughs, independent from the county councils. In counties where the quarter sessions had been held separately for different parts of the county, such as the Parts of Lincolnshire, each part was given its own county council. The area administered by a county council was called an administrative county. As such, some of the judicial or lieutenancy counties comprised several administrative counties and county boroughs.^[9]

The Ordnance Survey adopted the term 'geographical county' to describe the widest definition of the county. In most cases this was the lieutenancy county; the exceptions were Yorkshire, where the judicial county was larger on account of it being split into its three ridings for lieutenancy purposes, and the County of London where the administrative county was larger on account of the City of London and the rest of the county being separate for both judicial and lieutenancy purposes.^[10]

Ceremonial counties from 1974 to 1996 (City of London not shown)

The counties lost their judicial functions in 1972, after which the main functions of the counties were the administrative functions of local government.^[11] Despite the loss of their functions, sheriffs continued to be appointed to the former judicial counties up until 1974.^[12]

In 1974, administrative counties and county boroughs were abolished, and a new system of metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties was introduced instead. Sheriffs were renamed 'high sheriffs' and both they and the lieutenants were appointed to the new versions of the counties.^[13][14]

The counties of Avon, Cleveland and Humberside, each of which had only been created in 1974, were all abolished in 1996. They were divided into unitary authorities; legally these are also non-metropolitan counties. As part of these reforms, it was decided to define counties for the purposes of lieutenancy differently from the local government counties in some cases, effectively reverting to the pre-1974 arrangements for lieutenancies. Whereas the lieutenancies had been defined slightly differently from the shrieval counties prior to 1974, it was decided in 1996 that the high sheriffs and lieutenants should be appointed to the same areas. Regulations amending the Sheriffs Act 1887 and specifying the areas for the appointment of lieutenants were accordingly brought in with effect from 1 April 1996.^[15][16]

The regulations were then consolidated into the Lieutenancies Act 1997. When Herefordshire, Rutland and Worcestershire were re-established as local government counties in 1997 and 1998 no amendment was made to the 1997 Act regarding them, allowing them to also serve as their own lieutenancy areas.^[17][18] The lieutenancy counties have not changed in area since 1998, although the definitions of which local government counties are included in each lieutenancy have been amended to reflect new unitary authorities being created since 1997.^[16]

In legislation the lieutenancy areas are described as 'counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies'; the informal term 'ceremonial county' has come into usage for such areas, appearing in parliamentary debates as early as 1996.^[19]

Shrieval counties

See also: List of shrievalties

The shrieval counties are defined by the Sheriffs Act 1887 as amended, in a similar way to the lieutenancies defined by the Lieutenancies Act 1997. Each has a high sheriff appointed (except the City of London, which has two sheriffs).

Definition

The Lieutenancies Act 1997 defines counties for the purposes of lieutenancies in terms of metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties (created by the Local Government Act 1972, as amended) as well as Greater London and the Isles of Scilly (which lie outside the 1972 Act's system). Although the term is not used in the act, these counties are sometimes known as "ceremonial counties". The counties are defined in Schedule 1, paragraphs 2–5^[3] as amended^[20] (in 2009,^[21] 2019^[22] and 2023).^[23] Generally, each time a new non-metropolitan county is created the 1997 Act is amended to redefine the existing areas of the lieutenancies in terms of the new areas.^{[note 1]} No such amendment was made in 1997 when Rutland was made a unitary authority or in 1998 when Herefordshire and Worcestershire were re-established; those three therefore have been given their own lieutenants again since the passing of the 1997 Act. The actual areas of the ceremonial counties have not changed since 1998.

Lieutenancy areas since 1998

These are the 48 counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies in England, as currently defined:

Location	Population (2022)[24]	Area		Density		Composition Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties (including unitary authority areas)
		km2	mi2	/km2	/mi2
Bedfordshire	715,940	1,235	477	580	1,500	Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton
Berkshire	958,803	1,262	487	760	2,000	Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham
Bristol	479,024	110	42	4,368	11,310	Bristol
Buckinghamshire	852,589	1,874	724	455	1,180	Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes
Cambridgeshire	906,814	3,390	1,310	268	690	Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Cheshire	1,108,765	2,346	906	473	1,230	Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton, and Warrington
City of London[b]	10,847	2.89	1.12	3,753	9,720	City of London
Cornwall	577,694	3,562	1,375	162	420	Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
Cumbria	503,033	6,768	2,613	74	190	Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness[23]
Derbyshire	1,066,954	2,625	1,014	406	1,050	Derbyshire and Derby
Devon	1,232,660	6,707	2,590	184	480	Devon, Plymouth and Torbay
Dorset	785,172	2,653	1,024	296	770	Dorset and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole[22]
Durham	[c]872,075	2,676	1,033	326	840	County Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool and part of Stockton-on-Tees north of the River Tees
East Riding of Yorkshire	615,161	2,475	956	249	640	East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston upon Hull
East Sussex	828,685	1,791	692	463	1,200	East Sussex and Brighton and Hove
Essex	1,877,301	3,664	1,415	512	1,330	Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock
Gloucestershire	947,174	3,150	1,220	301	780	Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire
Greater London	8,855,333	1,569	606	5,643	14,620	None (see the London boroughs)
Greater Manchester	2,911,744	1,276	493	2,282	5,910	Greater Manchester
Hampshire	1,877,917	3,769	1,455	498	1,290	Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton
Herefordshire	188,719	2,180	840	87	230	Herefordshire
Hertfordshire	1,204,588	1,643	634	733	1,900	Hertfordshire
Isle of Wight	140,794	380	150	371	960	Isle of Wight
Kent	1,875,893	3,738	1,443	502	1,300	Kent and Medway
Lancashire	1,550,490	3,066	1,184	506	1,310	Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool and Lancashire
Leicestershire	1,095,554	2,156	832	508	1,320	Leicestershire and Leicester
Lincolnshire	1,103,320	6,977	2,694	158	410	Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire
Merseyside	1,442,081	652	252	2,211	5,730	Merseyside
Norfolk	925,299	5,384	2,079	172	450	Norfolk
North Yorkshire	[c]1,172,860	8,654	3,341	136	350	Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, Redcar and Cleveland, York and part of Stockton-on-Tees south of the River Tees
Northamptonshire	792,421	2,364	913	335	870	North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire
Northumberland	324,362	5,020	1,940	65	170	Northumberland
Nottinghamshire	1,163,335	2,159	834	539	1,400	Nottinghamshire and Nottingham
Oxfordshire	738,276	2,605	1,006	283	730	Oxfordshire
Rutland	41,151	382	147	108	280	Rutland
Shropshire	516,049	3,488	1,347	148	380	Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin
Somerset	991,615	4,170	1,610	238	620	Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and Somerset
South Yorkshire	1,392,105	1,552	599	897	2,320	South Yorkshire
Staffordshire	1,146,249	2,714	1,048	422	1,090	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
Suffolk	768,555	3,800	1,500	202	520	Suffolk
Surrey	1,214,540	1,663	642	731	1,890	Surrey
Tyne and Wear	1,141,795	540	210	2,115	5,480	Tyne and Wear
Warwickshire	607,604	1,975	763	308	800	Warwickshire
West Midlands	2,953,816	902	348	3,276	8,480	West Midlands
West Sussex	892,336	1,991	769	448	1,160	West Sussex
West Yorkshire	2,378,148	2,029	783	1,172	3,040	West Yorkshire
Wiltshire	751,542	3,485	1,346	216	560	Swindon and Wiltshire
Worcestershire	609,216	1,741	672	350	910	Worcestershire

Geographical counties 1889–1974

Northumberland

Durham

Lancashire

Cheshire

Derbs.

Notts.

Lincolnshire

Leics.

Staffs.

Shropshire

Warks.

Northants.

Norfolk

Suffolk

Essex

Herts.

Beds.

Bucks.

Oxon.

Glos.

Somerset

Wiltshire

Berkshire

Kent

Surrey

Hampshire

Dorset

Devon

Cornwall

Heref.

Worcs.

Rutland

Cambs.

Hunts.

London

Middx.

Not shown: City of London

Cumberland

Westmorland

Sussex

Yorkshire

East Riding

North Riding

West
Riding

Lieutenancy areas in 1890

After the creation of county councils in 1889, there were counties for judicial and shrieval purposes, counties for lieutenancy purposes, and administrative counties and county boroughs for the purposes of local government. The 1888 Act used the term 'entire county' to refer to the group of administrative counties and county boroughs created within each judicial county.^[25] The Ordnance Survey used the term 'geographical county' to refer to this wider definition of the county.^[10]

Yorkshire had three lieutenancies, one for each riding, but was a single judicial county with one sheriff, and was counted as one geographical county by Ordnance Survey.^[26]

The counties lost their judicial functions in 1972 under the Courts Act 1971 which abolished the quarter sessions and assizes.^[11] Sheriffs continued to be appointed for each county despite the loss of the judicial functions. Certain towns and cities were counties corporate appointing their own sheriffs. The counties corporate were all included in a wider county for lieutenancy purposes, except the City of London which had its own lieutenants.

The geographical counties were relatively stable between 1889 and 1965. There were occasional boundary changes, notably following the Local Government Act 1894 which said that parishes and districts were no longer allowed to straddle county boundaries. After that most boundary changes were primarily to accommodate urban areas which were growing across county boundaries, such as when Caversham was transferred from Oxfordshire to Berkshire as a result of being absorbed into the County Borough of Reading in 1911.

The lieutenancies and judicial / shrieval counties were defined as groups of administrative counties and county boroughs, and so were automatically adjusted if the boundaries of those administrative areas changed. There were two exceptions to this rule (one only briefly). The county borough of Great Yarmouth straddled Norfolk and Suffolk for judicial and lieutenancy purposes until 1891 when it was placed entirely in Norfolk for those purposes.^[27] The county borough of Stockport straddled Cheshire and Lancashire for judicial and lieutenancy purposes - it was placed entirely in Lancashire for judicial purposes in 1956 but continued to straddle the two counties for lieutenancy purposes until 1974.^[28][d]

Geographical, shrieval, lieutenancy and administrative counties 1889–1965

Geographical county	Sheriffs Counties corporate	Lieutenants	Administrative counties County boroughs
Bedfordshire	Bedfordshire	Bedfordshire	Bedfordshire – Luton (after 1964)
Berkshire	Berkshire	Berkshire	Berkshire – Reading
Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire	Cambridgeshire[e]	Cambridgeshire	Cambridgeshire Isle of Ely
Cheshire	Cheshire – Chester	Cheshire	Cheshire – Birkenhead – Chester – Stockport[f] – Wallasey (after 1913)
Cornwall	Cornwall	Cornwall	Cornwall Isles of Scilly[g]
Cumberland	Cumberland	Cumberland	Cumberland – Carlisle (from 1915)
Derbyshire	Derbyshire	Derbyshire	Derbyshire – Derby
Devon	Devon – Exeter	Devon	Devon – Devonport (until 1914) – Exeter – Plymouth
Dorset	Dorset – Poole	Dorset	Dorset
Durham	Durham	Durham	Durham – Darlington (after 1915) – Gateshead – South Shields – Sunderland – West Hartlepool (after 1902)
Essex	Essex	Essex	Essex – East Ham (after 1915) – Southend-on-Sea (after 1914) – West Ham
Gloucestershire	Gloucestershire – Bristol – Gloucester	Gloucestershire	Gloucestershire – Bristol – Gloucester
Hampshire	Hampshire – Southampton	Hampshire	Hampshire Isle of Wight (after 1890) – Bournemouth (after 1900) – Portsmouth – Southampton
Herefordshire	Herefordshire	Herefordshire	Herefordshire
Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire	Huntingdonshire[h]	Huntingdonshire	Huntingdonshire
Kent	Kent – Canterbury	Kent	Kent – Canterbury
Lancashire	Lancashire	Lancashire	Lancashire – Barrow-in-Furness – Blackburn – Blackpool (after 1904) – Bolton – Bootle – Burnley – Bury – Liverpool – Manchester – Oldham – Preston – Rochdale – St Helens – Salford – Southport (after 1905) – Stockport[f] – Warrington (after 1900) – Wigan
Leicestershire	Leicestershire	Leicestershire	Leicester – Leicester
Lincolnshire	Lincolnshire – Lincoln	Lincolnshire	Holland Kesteven Lindsey – Grimsby – Lincoln
London	County of London – City of London	County of London City of London	London
Middlesex	Middlesex	Middlesex	Middlesex
Norfolk	Norfolk – Norwich	Norfolk	Norfolk – Great Yarmouth[i] – Norwich
Northamptonshire	Northamptonshire	Northamptonshire	Northamptonshire Soke of Peterborough – Northampton
Northumberland	Northumberland – Berwick-upon-Tweed – Newcastle-upon-Tyne	Northumberland	Northumberland – Newcastle-upon-Tyne – Tynemouth (after 1904)
Nottinghamshire	Nottingham – Nottingham	Nottinghamshire	Nottinghamshire – Nottingham
Oxfordshire	Oxfordshire	Oxfordshire	Oxfordshire – Oxford (after 1889)[j]
Rutland	Rutland	Rutland	Rutland
Shropshire	Shropshire	Shropshire	Shropshire
Somerset	Somerset	Somerset	Somerset – Bath
Staffordshire	Staffordshire – Lichfield	Staffordshire	Staffordshire – Burton upon Trent (after 1901) – Hanley (until 1910) – Smethwick (from 1907) – Stoke-on-Trent (after 1910) – Walsall – West Bromwich – Wolverhampton
Suffolk	Suffolk	Suffolk	East Suffolk West Suffolk – Great Yarmouth (part, until 1891)[i] – Ipswich
Surrey	Surrey	Surrey	Surrey – Croydon
Sussex	Sussex	Sussex	East Sussex West Sussex – Brighton – Eastbourne (after 1911) – Hastings
Warwickshire	Warwickshire	Warwickshire	Warwickshire – Birmingham – Coventry – Solihull (after 1964)
Westmorland	Westmorland	Westmorland	Westmorland
Wiltshire	Wiltshire	Wiltshire	Wiltshire
Worcestershire	Worcestershire – Worcester	Worcestershire	Worcestershire – Dudley – Worcester
Yorkshire	Yorkshire Hallamshire (after 1962) – Kingston upon Hull – York	East Riding	East Riding – Kingston upon Hull
		North Riding	North Riding – Middlesbrough
		West Riding	West Riding – Barnsley (after 1913) – Bradford – Dewsbury (after 1913) – Doncaster (after 1927) – Halifax – Huddersfield – Leeds – Rotherham (after 1902) – Sheffield – Wakefield (after 1915) – York

More significant changes to the geographical counties were made in 1965 with the creation of Greater London and of Huntingdon and Peterborough, which resulted in the abolition of the offices of Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, Lord Lieutenant of the County of London, and Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire and the creation of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater London and of the Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdon and Peterborough.

See also

• England portal

• Counties of England
• Historic counties of England
• Counties in England by population
• List of ceremonial counties in England by GDP
• Lieutenancy areas of Scotland
• List of local governments in the United Kingdom
• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics
• Preserved counties of Wales

Notes

1. For example, Cheshire was prior to the 2009 structural changes to local government defined as the non-metropolitan counties of Cheshire, Halton & Warrington; the non-metropolitan county of Cheshire on 1 April that year split into the non-metropolitan counties of Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, and Schedule 1 of the Lieutenancies Act 1997 was duly amended to take into account these changes to local government within the ceremonial county.

1. The county corporate of Bristol was created from parts of both Gloucestershire and Somerset, but was entirely included in the Gloucestershire lieutenancy, except for between 1660 and 1672 when it was included in the Somerset lieutenancy.
2. Because the City of London has a Commission of Lieutenancy rather than a single lord-lieutenant, it is treated as a county for some purposes of the Lieutenancy Act. (Schedule 1 paragraph 4)
3. Uniquely, the district of Stockton-on-Tees is split between County Durham and North Yorkshire.
4. The Third Schedule of the 1888 Act lists the county boroughs with the "Name of the County in which, for the purposes of this Act, the Borough is deemed to be situate." Four county boroughs were then listed as deemed to be in more than one county: Bristol, Great Yarmouth, Stockport and York. However, the purposes of the act did not include changing which counties, ridings and counties corporate were included in each lieutenancy area; those were already set by the Militia Act 1882 and were not altered by the 1888 Act, except that if the boundaries of an administrative county changed then so too did any lieutenancy, shrieval or judicial area to match (section 59). For lieutenancy purposes, Bristol was solely in Gloucestershire, and York was solely in the West Riding. As both were counties corporate they had their own sheriffs and served as their own judicial areas.^[29] The purposes of the 1888 Act which necessitated county boroughs to be deemed to be situated in a wider county related to certain financial matters rather than lieutenancy.^[30][31]
5. Shared with Huntingdonshire
6. For judicial and lieutenancy purposes, Stockport south of the River Mersey and River Tame was in Cheshire, north of the rivers in Lancashire. In 1956 the whole borough was placed in Lancashire for judicial purposes whilst continuing to straddle the two counties for the purposes of lieutenancy.
7. Sui generis authority created 1890.
8. Shared with Cambridgeshire
9. The county borough of Great Yarmouth straddled Norfolk and Suffolk for judicial and lieutenancy purposes, with the part north of the River Yare in Norfolk and south of it in Suffolk, until 1891 when the whole borough was placed in Norfolk for those purposes.
10. Oxford was briefly included in the administrative county of Oxfordshire created in April 1889, but was made a county borough in November 1889.

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External links

• Text of the Lieutenancies Act 1997 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.