Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography/Counties (historical)

This "guideline" seems to be out of date (e.g. it claims that Berkshire is an administrative county) and generally not much use to anyone (all it seems to be saying is that when saying what county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?--Kotniski (talk) 12:29, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. - Jarry1250 ^{[Who? Discuss.]} 19:22, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I'm going to do it. I'll leave the content of this page as a historical page linked from the other one, just in case people are ever interested.--Kotniski (talk) 07:06, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Legal" counties without councils[edit]

I'm intrigued/confused by the idea that Metropolitan Counties should be treated as counties even though they have no council, as having no council does not affect their legal status.

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? Cardinal 1962 (talk) 08:07, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]