UK map: ceremonial counties of England

This map shows the 48 ceremonial counties of England. Ceremonial counties are areas defined for the purposes of the lieutenancies, relating to the appointment of lord-lieutenants, the monarch’s representatives in each county. Their boundaries are generally the same as those of the shrieval counties, which are used for appointing high sheriffs, the monarch’s judicial representatives. Each ceremonial county consists of one or more local government areas. Unlike counties used for local government purposes, ceremonial counties have no administrative role and serve primarily as symbolic units representing the Crown.

Below is a list of the 48 counties, along with their composition (metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties, including unitary authority areas):

• Bedfordshire (Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton)
• Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead and Wokingham)
• Bristol (Bristol)
• Buckinghamshire (Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes)
• Cambridgeshire (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough)
• Cheshire (Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Halton, and Warrington)
• City of London (City of London)
• Cornwall (Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly)
• Cumbria (Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness)
• Derbyshire (Derbyshire and Derby)
• Devon (Devon, Plymouth and Torbay)
• Dorset (Dorset and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole)
• Durham (County Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees (north of the River Tees))
• East Riding of Yorkshire (East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston upon Hull)
• East Sussex (East Sussex and Brighton and Hove)
• Essex (Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock)
• Gloucestershire (Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire)
• Greater London (None)
• Greater Manchester (Greater Manchester)
• Hampshire (Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton)
• Herefordshire (Herefordshire)
• Hertfordshire (Hertfordshire)
• Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight)
• Kent (Kent and Medway)
• Lancashire (Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool and Lancashire)
• Leicestershire (Leicestershire and Leicester)
• Lincolnshire (Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire)
• Merseyside (Merseyside)
• Norfolk (Norfolk)
• North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, Redcar and Cleveland, York and Stockton-on-Tees (south of the River Tees))
• Northamptonshire (North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire)
• Northumberland (Northumberland)
• Nottinghamshire (Nottinghamshire and Nottingham)
• Oxfordshire (Oxfordshire)
• Rutland (Rutland)
• Shropshire (Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin)
• Somerset (Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and Somerset)
• South Yorkshire (South Yorkshire)
• Staffordshire (Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent)
• Suffolk (Suffolk)
• Surrey ( Surrey)
• Tyne and Wear (Tyne and Wear)
• Warwickshire (Warwickshire)
• West Midlands (West Midlands)
• West Sussex (West Sussex)
• West Yorkshire (West Yorkshire)
• Wiltshire (Swindon and Wiltshire)
• Worcestershire (Worcestershire)

Map created by NWEGEO; administrative boundaries and fill colours by Mapchart.net. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).