Back in the Old County

[evilC]

Using this map as a basis, has anyone (or their families, I suppose) changed county (without changing actual location) in their lifetime and, if so, what changes has it brought, if any?

I found this map when I was looking for a map of England where the counties 'before London' were marked. I suppose there is a sub-question, which is 'which old county within what-is-now-London do you live in?'

[beak]

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before my home town "moved" from lancashire to greater manchester there were a lot less tedious-as-fuck letters to the paper arguing about which county they live in. that's about all, i think. unless you want to make a tenuous argument about how cutting us off from "proper" lancashire has fed accent change. i've heard this argument once and thought it was a bit crackers.

m'lady knows a ton of people that were born in gorky in the ussr, and now live in nizhny novgorod in russia.

[Tubby Isaacs]

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Ah, what a map that is. Every time I look at it, there's another I haven't heard of. What on earth's going on with the Western Isles?

I think the happiest I could possibly be would be watching all those counties play cricket.

[Gangster Octopus]

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We moved from the West Riding, which included the birth place of my parents and all my grandparents to South Yorkshire, which is more my father's patch; my mother retrospectively coming from a West Yorkshire family.

The West Riding was a brilliant county, almost the biggest county in its own right.

[Tubby Isaacs]

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Here are the county towns of the above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_town

I'd never heard of Appleby, Westmoreland.

Rothesay, Bute can't exactly be a metropolis either. I think an Earl of Bute was once Prime Minister. I'm surprised he didn't get laughed back to his island.

[Tubby Isaacs]

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Rothesay is however bigger than Dornoch and Wigtown.

[Gangster Octopus]

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Tubby Isaacs wrote:

I'd never heard of Appleby, Westmoreland.

It's the site of the famous Horse Fair. I was in a pub in Appleby watching England beat Australia at Trent Bridge. I'm sure I wrote about it at the time.

[beak]

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i've been to wigtown. it's fantastic.

[Tubby Isaacs]

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It says here it's Scotland's Hay-On-Wye. That's good enough for me.

I can't remember that, GO.

[Gangster Octopus]

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Another great thing about that map is it shows my two favourite bits of local government : Dunbartonshire (detached) and Flint (detached). What was the point of them?

[Disco Child Ballads]

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I think Hull changed from being in Humberside to being back in Yorkshire the time I was at University there.