Talk:Great Coxwell

County[edit]

The village is still located in Berkshire, not Oxfordshire as many try to insist. The Local Government Act 1972 redefined only ADMINISTRATIVE boundaries, not the actual county boundaries. The legislation states clearly that it was moving only these administrative boundaries which had been set by earlier legislation, and a government statement published in The Times on 1st April 1974 confirmed as much. Unfortunately, a large portion of the population has been bullied into believing that villages and towns were "moved" into new counties by this act, when in fact nothing of the sort happened. The local authorities are complicit in this charade, since they are interested primarily in promoting only what they regard as "their" territory.

Unfortunately, those who refuse to accept this fact appear to be the ones who have established "Wikipedia policy guidelines" and are so intent on perpetuating the incorrect information that they also completely ignore other Wikipedia rules when it suits their agenda, by removing valid information about the true county when it is supported by legislation and refusing to cite the legislation they believe actually moved the real county boundaries (they cannot cite it because it doesn't exist).

For more information, see the website of the Association of British counties: http://www.abcounties.co.uk

87.112.142.201 (talk) 16:01, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Again, you are referred to WP:UKCOUNTIES and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about counties. Dave.Dunford (talk) 16:44, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Naming conventions for counties are often discussed, and the outcome has always been the same: use current counties. I suggest you open a discussion at the talk page of the UK-wide geography project, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography. Mr Stephen (talk) 17:13, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Berkshire IS the current county, as it has been for centuries. It is the ridiculous assertion in "policy" that the ADMINISTRATIVE areas created/altered in 1974 are current ACTUAL counties which is wrong. But it seems that despite citations of legislation and even government confirmation of the fact, editors who stand by the incorrect policy are more interested in perpetuating the misinformation than with accuracy. They keep claiming that they are right, yet will not cite anything to back up those claims - Except for their own policies. 87.112.142.201 (talk) 17:37, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Take it to UKGEO. Mr Stephen (talk) 18:54, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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