Re: OT: baloney and cheese

Joe scripsit:

> I could probably name half the counties in England.  Scotland, Wales, and
> NI, no way.
The trick here is not to confuse the "ancient, traditional, historical, and
geographical Counties", of which England contains precisely 39, Scotland 34,
Wales 13, and Northern Ireland 6, with the endlessly changing muck of
administrative units introduced in 1974 and revamped several times since
then.  With the exception of about sixty detached parts (a parish here,
a hamlet there) that were rectified in 1844, the English counties have
been rock stable since before Domesday Book (1086), and the Scottish and
Welsh counties have been stable for several centuries at least.

http://abcounties.co.uk is authoritative and exhaustive on the matter,
with maps, a gazetteer, historical notes, a postal database giving historic
county names for every post town and London district, and lots more.
However, it does not cover N.I.

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