Counties of England Quiz

Wow this one is tricky but I like it.

"Northants" is a fairly common nickname for Northamptonshire. That should count as a right answer.

WRV3 but then you'd have to add Leics, Staffs, Lancs, Hants, Berks, Warks, Salop, Lincs, Gloucs, Worcs, etc, and that would be half the quiz gone! We have far too many shires

They should all be allowed, otherwise not enough time!

This one would be nice if there was a map with it like "US States" etc..

I agree about the map, wouldn't necessarily be helpful for me to answer but would be good to learn where they are.

Awesome quiz. Please do the traditional counties of Ireland too!

20 this time. I think I'm getting better.

Surely you should accept either 'east yorkshire' or 'east riding' for east riding of yorkshire (which, might I add, I've never heard it called)

29 now. Why do I always forget the same ones..

I live in the region West Midlands - didn't realise it was also a county even though it must be near me.

middlesex????!!!!! where is it!

Middlesex was discontinued as a county in 1965. Most of the area was absorbed into the spreading Greater London county, with small parts transferring to Hertfordshire and Surrey.

48/48 :) Also I thought Middlesex was one

100% with 1:07 left..... not bad :) though it was the second time I did it. The first time I missed one out- clicked give up and then it turned out to be Gloucestershire- the glorious county that I live in! lol

Only 76% know London... Now we look bad! Usually, the English have to guess our states and cities, but now we have the pressure. LOL.

Isle of Wight is not a county. It is part of Hampshire!

Cumbria was never part of Lancashire, also Cumberland and Westmoreland haven't been around since the 70s. Dunno where you've been all these years :P

Englishbub - 'Cumbria was never part of Lancashire?' I'll think you'll find it was. My birth certificate states born Barrow in Furness in the county of Lancashire. Since 1974 Barrow, along with the Furness area of Lancashire 'north of the sands', became part of Cumbria as were the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland.

:P 47/48

Love this quiz - it's always Berkshire I trip up on, everytime. Would love to see a map version of this, where you have to match the county accurately. And for those missing Middlesex, Wessex etc maybe we should do an historic version one day :-)

good one, my typing not so quick, this is more of an "administrative area" list though, as The City of London, Bristol , Greater London, Greater Manchester etc are not counties. Greater London takes up space in the counties of Kent, Surrey, Middlesex, Hertfordshire and Essex...just like Chicago (my favourite holiday destination!) goes into Cook County and DuPage county, but there is no County of Chicago. Some counties do not exist anymore

Bristol has been a county since 1353 and still is today. As a resident of Bristol, my county is always listed as Bristol on my address; there are no other counties it could be listed under. Also, having grown up in the London Borough of Bromley I agree that areas such as this are quite complicated; whilst my postcode was a Kent postcode (TN) and my address listed as Kent, my council was a London council. However there are other boroughs, such as Lewisham where I've also lived, which do not cross into any home counties, so the address is listed under the Greater London county as, like Bristol, there are no other counties it comes under. I can't comment on the other places you mentioned though.

Not sure where you're getting that from Jock the cities mentioned are definately also counties in their own right.

Interesting the English don't seem to learn their counties like the Americans learns their states. I aint saying it's wrong. Just interesting.

Fairly pointless exercise if you ask me, what does anyone gain by knowing all the states in their own country by heart

Maybe it's a question about size. A state in the U.S. can be a state in Europe (by population).

Nerth Yerksherman, and proud!

Counties in England are very different to what a state is in the US, both in an administrative and regulatory way, in fact in each state there are also counties and I bet very few people could name all those. Historically counties change boundries fairly often, aborbing neighbouring areas, if you take Middlebrough as an example, from the late 1800's it was part of Yorkshire, then in the 1960's it became the central town in Teesside, it was then aborbed into Cleveland in the 70's, in the 90's it then went back into North Yorkshire, however it is still regularly refered to as Teesside and Cleveland. Lol, when was the last time a boundry was chnaged in the states or a new stat was formed?