Countes in GB

[ossian]

Is County Durham the only county in Geat Britain actually called County? Derby County perhaps?

Stewart

[ChuckFickens]

County Antrim?

[ChuckFickens]

County Down?

[ChuckFickens]

In fact, most of the Irish ones :)

[ossian]

All the counties in Ireland are called counties but Ireland, even Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain. The United Kingdom includes Northern Ireland. but GB doesn't. Our Olympic remember was Great Britain & Northern Ireland. Derby County and Notts County are football teams but the use of the word county in their name would suggest that the area known as Derbyshire, for example, may have once called County Derby..maybe. Kent, Norfolk and Suffolk for example are usually referred to as Kent, Norfolk and Suffolk while most of the rest are all called shires. How did this originate.

Stewart

[dotty.]

because the is a city of durham and a county of durham.

[Fibonacci]

Kent
O.E., from L. Canticum, Gk. Kantion (51 B.C.E.), an ancient Celtic name often explained as "coastal district," but possibly "land of the hosts or armies."
Norfolk / Suffolk
Nordfolc (1066) "(Territory of the) Northern/Southern People (of the East Angles)
county
c.1300, from Anglo-Fr. counte, from L.L. comitatus "jurisdiction of a count," from L. comes (see count (n.)); replaced O.E. scir "shire."
http://en.wikipedia.o...c_counties_of_England

[bednobs]

i think our official title is "royal county of berkshire"

[dotty.]

well Lancashire is historically the County of Lancaster but not County Lancaster. In fact many old Counties were termed County of ,,,,, in ecclesiastical or manoral records.

[FredPuli43]

It is the only one in Great Britain which is known as 'County [name]' but historically and until quite recently, County Durham was not its proper,official, name. In common with many other counties, the formal, official name was 'County of [name of county town]' as Cambridgeshire is 'the County of Cambridge' not 'The County of Cambridgeshire'. County Durham was what people called 'the County of Durham' but 'County Durham' got official recognition when laws and Statutory Instruments started referring to 'County Durham' from the late 1990s and in one case in 2008, 'the County of County Durham'.

[FredPuli43]

And Derby County FC was originally meant to be Derbyshire FC but objections were made by Derbyshire FA. It was founded as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club, so it seemed natural to name it 'Derbyshire'. Presumably , even the legal- minded didn't insist upon 'County of Derby FC'

[factor-fiction]

I wonder why Stockport County are so-named?

[Peter Pedant]

This came up on univ c#ck-up when Bamber Grassgroin was q master.
He didnt say Antrim and the beautiful C. Down (late MP ENoch Powell) were in Ireland and not GB
but there was intense discussion about the Soke of Peterborough.

Oh the Q says Geat Britain so I allow that Antrim and Down cd be dere.

[sir.prize]

factor - after the County of Stockport.

[factor-fiction]

Is that last sentence what you meant to type Peter?