On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 09:18 +, Wittle, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It is interesting that people often say UK counties are defunct because the
> post office no longer use them; you could argue that postal addressing was
> not really the purpose of counties in the first place. The point of counties
As an aside... I can kind of understand why people get grumpy about the
pre-1971 (?) counties now. While I grew up with the post-1971 counties and are
thoroughly used to them, so things like Avon et al never bothered me, while
things like Middlesex seem antiquated... I now get grumpy about thes
On 08/06/15 10:18, Wittle, Paul wrote:
Hi,
It is interesting that people often say UK counties are defunct because the
post office no longer use them; you could argue that postal addressing was not
really the purpose of counties in the first place. The point of counties being
more about gover
Some types of county are alive and well, others are pretty much defunct.
There are at five types of thing called "county" that I know of in
England:
1) Non-metropolitan county
2) Metropolitan county
3) Ceremonial county
4) Postal county
5) Vice County
1) Is a "normal" county, with
Hi,
It is interesting that people often say UK counties are defunct because the
post office no longer use them; you could argue that postal addressing was not
really the purpose of counties in the first place. The point of counties being
more about governmental practices than delivering post.
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