UK Counties

Fantastic  We have had this conversation many times!

Short answer no...

Long answer...

The Post Office did away with the County system requirement for postal addresses, so there is no longer an official "Postal County" list.

So now you need to decide what kind of counties you want. You have traditional counties, ceremonial counties or administrative areas, (Non-metropolitan district) 

Whichever one you choose people will moan, as we know from long bitter experience. In fact people want to be part of a different county, even when there address isn't in there. Wales and Scotland gets even worse as county borders and names have changed considerably.

For this reason, we are dropping our county structure with the new site, and going to distance and post code searches. Much safer

lol ..Thanks..

The reason I asked I had a customer phone me saying she couldn't order as her county was not in my list .. I was just trying to sort it out on the weekend only to find it was not as easy as I thought it would be , like how hard could it be to find all the counties in the UK , I now know it's difficult...

Andy

Does the attached suit

Hope this helps

It's a good starting point, but will generate more support queries (from much painful experience).

The attached list shows "Yorkshire" as a single County. eg no East Yorkshire, or East Riding of Yorkshire, so you will upset some of the residents of Beverley and Goole.

Where does Bristol slot into the above County list? A lot of people get precious about being in the East or West Midlands, neither are traditional counties, but lots of people will tell you that is their County. Sussex is now East and West Sussex, the list goes on!

Andy, if you can scrap counties as a requirement field, then it will make your life much easier

I think that is the basics but still missing a lot of them + east and west Sussex changed...It's weird to think there is no correct list 

There is, it was done by the French (Normans)

The correct list you refer to is the postal counties which has been abolished and is no longer in official use, although everyone still uses them. But there are still "official" counties depending on their use and purpose, historical, ceremonial etc.

Best bet if you do want to stick with Counties, is to go with:

England - the Ceremonial Counties

Scotland -  Lieutenancy areas of Scotland

Wales - Preserved counties of Wales

Northern Ireland - choice between the former counties, or the current 11 districts.

Like I say though, whatever you choose people will moan and we have had consistent moans for over 10 years, including people in the same area arguing over different county names

But as of September, we are finally scrapping our County Field requirement, leaving it as a free form text box, so the business owner can call it what ever they like  We just won't reference it in the database.

Hi People

You both makes a good points and I like the Optional County field, Steve