UK Counties

Sorry to throw this at you again, as I can see that you've been struggling through the very special confusion that is the UK postal address - what serves as a county, in particular. The ones in the Hikashop list for Wales are a bit of a mix between very old and very new ones, and there's quite a bit of overlap (Blaenau Gwent is in Gwent, for example, and no-one uses Glamorgan as a postal county any more).

Lists of current administrative counties ([url=url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_and_non-metropolitan_counties_of_England]England[/url]), regions and districts ( Scotland ), principal areas ( Wales ) and districts ( Northern Ireland ) organised by local government are quite fluid - the Northern Ireland Executive is currently planning to reduce the number of districts to 11, and there's been talk of reorganisation in Wales for ages too.

There's no one, simple solution, (see this discussion on Geocaching) but the closest I've seen to county names that I would recognise are the ceremonial county names in the Lieutenancy areas . Using this list would mean there was no overlap between geographical areas. Some of them are a bit old-fashioned, but they're unlikely to be affected by legislation which redraws or reorganises county government boundaries, so would require less maintenance in the long-term.

Or you could just put the ability to edit UK counties in a plug-in

Here is a list of incorrect ones listed on hikashop

Bath and North East Somerset
Blaenau Gwent
Borders
Bristol
Carmarthenshire
Ceredigion
Conwy
Denbighshire
East Ayrshire
East Dunbartonshire
East Renfrewshire
East Riding of Yorkshire
Edinburgh
Flintshire
Glamorgan
Glasgow
Grampian
Greater Manchester
Gwent
Inverclyde
Manchester
North Ayrshire
North Lanarkshire
North West Highlands
Pembrokeshire
Renfrewshire
Rhondda Cynon Taf
South Ayrshire
South Gloucestershire
South Lanarkshire
Tayside
Torfaen
West Lothian

And a list of the missing ones.
Aberdeenshire
Angus
Avon
Ayrshire
Banffshire
Berwickshire
Caithness
Clackmannanshire
Cleveland
Clwyd
County Armagh
East Lothian
Gwent
Inverness-shire
Isle of Arran
Isle of Barra
Isle of Benbecula
Isle of Bute
Isle of Canna
Isle of Coll
Isle of Colonsay
Isle of Cumbrae
Isle of Eigg
Isle of Gigha
Isle of Harris
Isle of Iona
Isle of Islay
Isle of Jura
Isle of Lewis
Mid Glamorgan
North Humberside
South Glamorgan
South Humberside
West Glamorgan

This is actually a list of postal counties, not political ones (lifted from Wiki so most likely utterly wrong). I totally understand guys at Hika, I find it confusing at time.

Yours
Iain

Yes I have been looking further, I think here might be a better source. As an aside, Counties are not required for the postal address in the UK. The post code does that job.

Iain

resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/c...stions/counties.html