American Reacts to English Counties Explained

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Like most Americans I don't know much about English geography. Today I am very interested in learning about how English counties work. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!

[@clemstevenson]

We use archaic, mispronounced, place-names, in order to confuse foreign visitors. It works.

[@dominik36127]

And the world took it's revenge by sending you a bunch of Polish people with names like Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz to confuse you.

[@clemstevenson]

@@dominik36127 🤣🤣

[@lindajw100]

😂😂😂

[@lindajw100]

​@dominik36127 😂😂😂

[@gdok6088]

@@dominik36127 Ah but we love the Poles.

[@wobaguk]

There is nothing 'random' about Jay Foremans Map Men videos, one of the best channels on the internet

[@paolomargini7904]

Absolutely agree

[@chazw6889]

Yep! I think Tyler should do more videos reacting to jays ones. I think the English place names one would be funny!

[@vickytaylor9155]

Lincoln is the in Lincolnshire. Oxford is in Oxfordshire, Derby is in Derbyshire, etc. We have hamlets, villages, towns, cities, counties etc.

[@farfromfreaking]

There is a North Yorkshire an east Yorkshire and west Yorkshire, why no South Yorkshire? Because no Yorkshire man will ever admit he is southern 😂

[@N1611n]

So true! 🤣🤣🤣👍

[@EdDnB]

We won’t allow you to be remotely connected with the glorious part of the country we call the South 🧐😘

[@robnash5311]

So I'm from the city of Doncaster? Where would that be? 😮

[@Willsanky]

Wrong..... So very wrong!

[@Willsanky]

​@@robnash5311a fellow Donny boi!

[@old_grey_cat]

The UK's system is the way it is because of well over a thousand years of political history. It goes with having place names with weird spelling, both from multiple invasions/ pre-Roman and pre-Norman dialects and from the Great Vowel Shift. It can be fun to dive into the linguistics' intersection with politics and history.

[@Pazuzu82]

It's great to watch you doing these types of videos so that it will educate americans and other countries around the world about UK culture.

[@autumnwinter1462]

Map Men are great. ‘Why are British place names so hard to pronounce’ and ‘Why British cities make no sense’ are good as well.

[@Wishes890]

And why do they need to use EVERY LETTER OF THE ALPHABET for those names? Birminghamshireburgh.

[@naomihorton8793]

Wales has the worst imo, like no one can say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysisiogogogoch 😅

[@shyemest-]

​@@naomihorton8793For your sake, I hope you copied and pasted that 😂😂😂

[@naomihorton8793]

@@shyemest- I spent too long learning that as a brag against my mates to copy and paste it 😭

[@Warthunder_guy514]

they made fun of braintree :(

[@stuartfitch7093]

I think there's a good % of people here in the UK who are proud of what county they come from. Yorkshire people are known for it, then there's other counties like Cornwall that even have their own language. I myself am a die-hard Lincolnshire yellowbelly. I was born here, have lived all my life here, and will undoubtedly die here.

[@rbweston]

I always love how Americans try to say "Worcestershire", when it comes to our Sauce. 😂

[@MartinOReilly-mb4um]

Nah, not really. It just confused the heck outta me.

[@Wishes890]

True, but not just that word, most words that originate in other countries, like Versailles they say Ver-sails instead of Ver-sigh.

[@pedanticlady9126]

​@@Wishes890 They even pronounce Paris as Paree ...😂

[@sundayslayerzz2367]

Woooosta

[@MarkGoldy]

And Tottenham (when talking footy)

[@barrywood7322]

The only time counties matter is when someone from Lancashire meets someone from Yorkshire then fireworks may fly.

[@CMJ321]

And CORNWALL and DEVON!

[@CMJ321]

the great scone war!

[@benmorris118]

Unless the person from Lancashire admits they are inferior

[@barrywood7322]

@ Never in my lifetime😁

[@JulianHendy-Ibbs-hm8rg]

Inferior my arse, *cough* BOSWORTH FIELD *Cough* Yorkshite LOST.

[@tawa7546]

Great reaction as always Tyler, would love to see you react to more of Jay Foremans videos, it's an amazing channel with so much knowledge and humor!

[@paolomargini7904]

With Map Men you get full information and a lot of Brit humour and a lot of cleverness.

[@kevinmessiah872]

the best way to understand counties, is to look at the county cricket teams ... that pretty much sums up how i think of things

[@watcherzero5256]

Yes like Lancashire Cricket club not being in Lancashire.

[@kevinmessiah872]

@watcherzero5256 yeh, but it is a county

[@WilliamSmith-mx6ze]

@@watcherzero5256 Some of us don't accept the Local Government Act 1972; therefore Stretford is in Lancashire.

[@eccehomer8182]

@@watcherzero5256 Or Bristol not being in Gloucestershire.

[@TedJM]

@@watcherzero5256 or Middlesex which hasn't existed since 1966 when Greater London became a thing and gobbled it up

[@idcgaming518]

10:56 yep, we're aware all right... we just tend to decide to run with either the historic or administrative counties.

[@TedJM]

I tend to run with the 48 ceremonial counties

[@Helzand2catz]

Ey up, Tyler (hello) from Yorkshire! Yorkshire folk are fiercely proud of their county. It's often referred to as 'God's own county' (type that in a UK search and it brings up Yorkshire). There's a Yorkshire Day celebration every 1st of August. I'm from South Yorkshire, and live on the Sheffield / Barnsley border. I've got a Sheffield address but pay local taxes to Barnsley council. It doesn't seem that confusing when you've grown up with it.

[@Steve14ps]

I was in Cleckheaton two years ago, my breakfast cost £1.90, proper Yorkshire price

[@bosh__]

Growing up i had a Sheffield address and paid council tax to Derbyshire council, as I was on the south of Sheffield. It's weird round county lines, it gets a bit blurry

[@BrambleWood]

Gods own county, full of heathen norse, makes less sense than the rest of it put together

[@scottbogfoot]

0:12 omg, mapmen are the best! Unfortunately it takes forever for them to do videos theses days

[@HelenMarie555]

When I'm asked for my county I'm not usually given the option of Yorkshire, I choose South Yorkshire.

[@Masque54]

1:45 The look of sheer joy when Tyler recognises the name Yorkshire! 🤣🤣

[@DarrenGregg-j3e]

Yes, pathetic isn't it. Probably only knows that and London.

[@lesleygilbert1945]

Good to see *HULL* , my home town or rather *City* get a mention and in *East Yorkshire* . Our full name is really Kingston Upon Hull , but if you live here it's known as 'ull' in local dialect 😆

[@JohnResalb]

Hi Tyler. Each county has its own character, local building style and has its own accent (although the latter two can stretch across into the neighbouring county). As examples - the Cotswolds are based, and span out, from the meeting point of 4 counties. West Midlands "bromy" accent is also common in neighbouring Worcestershire, and the fenland waterways are common to Norfolk and neighbouring Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.

[@martinbynion1589]

Brummie, not "bromy".

[@Stevie-Steele]

I'm from Northumberland - the northernmost English county, bordering Scotland. While Cumbria is the other English county that borders Scotland - the border is diagonal and is around 70 miles farther north on the East coast as it is on the West - the England/Scotland border is a fascinating topic in itself and is definitely not a straight line!

[@mikkosimonen]

And there's a Map Men video about it!

[@kellyrobinson6663]

I'm from Hampshire in the south, my little town Gosport has its own microclimate and 2 beaches. Right opposite the Isle of Wight I love living 5 mins walk from the beach.

[@BrambleWood]

don't confuse the yank anymore than he is, they have an isle of Wight in Virginia too, causes a lot of fun n games on ancestry sites

[@nigeldepledge3790]

At about 4:00, you're asking about day-to-day usage. Well, people use the names of their regions, areas or counties to identify where they're talking about without necessarily showing any regard for changes that have happened in the last century or so. For example, the Cleveland Hills used to be in the county of Cleveland. They're now in North Yorkshire. Not because they moved, but because the county of Cleveland ceased to exist. Administratively, there are districts and boroughs that may or may not be in a county, but people will refer to a region by whichever name is most convenient. Teesside, for example, is the region around the lower reaches of the River Tees, but it's not a county in its own right. It contains the districts or boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees, Darlington and Middlesbrough. And possibly Hartlepool, which is in County Durham, I think.

[@thomasmoorhouse7793]

I live in Bradford in West Yorkshire. Bradford is a city which has it's own Metropolitan district which comprises of several towns, villages and Hamlets. 2 more districts exist Leeds and Wakefield. Then there are 2 metropolitan boroughs of West Yorkshire, Calderdale (where Halifax is) and Kirklees (Where Huddersfield is) but as neither Halifax nor Huddersfield are yet cities these are boroughs not districts. Also want to say Bradford gets a bad reputation because the city itself isn't at all the best BUT places within the district like Saltaire, Ilkley and many more are nice towns to visit. So when someone says Bradford's rubbish take it with a grain of salt :)

[@DaCaLsTa7777]

I've grown up in Bradford all my life and its got a huge area that's counted as part of Bradford, even into North Yorkshire where I currently reside. But I used to a lot closer to central Bradford before we moved about 5 years ago

[@karenthompson5965]

I live about 10 minutes from Wingerworth in Derbyshire first mentioned in the video.Wingerworth is a beautiful rural village.

[@theohigginbottom]

Same

[@lindabaldwin2911]

So do I

[@claireshawcroft2999]

Glad l'm not the only person that went ooh, Wingerworth 😂

[@emclemmiecreativemuse7283]

A good follow-up video would be to look at our postcodes (How they differ from Zip codes) How a postcode can narrow down the location to a few houses on the same street (The reason we do not need to put counties in the address) it is a very effective code system.

[@tonys1636]

The Irish one goes a step further, an Éircode is individual to each property even down to individual apartments in a block. In theory an address is not needed, did try it once and it worked albeit delayed by a couple of days as someone at An Post had to look it up on the website and write the address across the envelope in a thick blue pen after travelling miles in the wrong direction from all the sorting depot time stamps on it (those funny row of lines along an edge). Google maps also works.

[@lesleygilbert1945]

He already did a post-code video recently.

[@Kraiforjoi]

Please do more Map Men reactions.

[@jordanroper5739]

Im from Hampshire, but my town Basingstoke uses Reading postcodes (so RG24 for example), Reading is part of the county of Berkshire. but on top of that reading is my nearest *bigger city. What I believe makes our lives easier as brits is our vast transportation network, making it easier to move about (when the workers arent on strike), therefore blurring those lines between counties.

[@pedanticlady9126]

Aaa! Yoo must meen the town of Redding in the countee of Barksheer, where I woz born 👍😊👋

[@CarolWoosey-ck2rg]

Tyler have a day off mate! Yorkshire a city? The clues in the name 😁🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@chrisperyagh]

The only times I know of when 'Shire' is pronounced 'Shy-a' are when saying 'Shire/Shires' as a standalone word, the surname 'Shires' and those heavy horses known as 'Shire horses' as it's accented - on the end of county names (eg. Hampshire or Wiltshire) it's not accented and pronounced 'sha'.

[@myrtle4264]

Or sheer. I'm from Lankysheer.

[@owennoad-watson2820]

I live in Bristol so I regularly argue about Bristol now technically being its own county despite part of Bristol not being in the county whereas neighbouring towns are… but then it’s also part of Avon and shares a police-force with Avon and Somerset, two other counties. So yes, a lot of us are aware of the confusion

[@eccehomer8182]

... and Gloucestershire play cricket in Bristol.

[@sihollett]

Avon was abolished on its 24th birthday in 1996. The current county of the City of Bristol has already existed nearly 5 years longer than Avon did!

[@Guyfromnorthenengland]

As someone who lives right on the Yorkshire north border i can sense the pride coming from Yorkshire. Also when i go into Yorkshire i see more flags of Yorkshire then uk or English flags.

[@jonathanpringle8238]

I was born and live in england and even I am confused. even i refer to all regions of yorkshire as yorkshire.

[@ludo9234]

I live in Derbyshire, its a lovely place with fantastic countryside.

[@gibson617ajg]

........but the City of Derby is a dung-heap 😁

[@ericevans4040]

I am in the derbyshire dales but try to stay away from derby

[@barriehull7076]

The only Americans who known how to pronounce Shire apparently live in New Hampshire. Tyler is in the Shrews bury camp when pronouncing Shrewsbury.

[@Air_Cardinal]

I was born and grew up in North Yorkshire pronounced "sheer", while my Dad is from a Scottish county called Ayrshire locally pronounced how it's spelt. So I guess any is right in the right context. Shrewsbury is pronounced "Shrows-Berry" (take the word show and shove an r in it). The pronounciation of the bury bit can be "Burry", "Berry" or "B'ry" depending on your own regional accent as that town name suffix in this case can also be found elsewhere in the UK: Bury St. Edmunds, Aylesbury, Canterbury... etc.

[@andymcgeechan8318]

My friend lives in Cambridgeshire but she is convinced she lives on Norfolk because she has a Norwich postcode. Even though I show her the road atlas with the boundary/dotted line to her east. she still maintains she is in Norfolk not Cambridgeshire.

[@dirtbikerman1000]

I live in Nottinghamshire 1 mile from the south Yorkshire border Our closest postal sorting office was in Doncaster so my post address is Doncaster South Yorkshire, when I clearly live in Nottinghamshire

[@hens0w]

Doesn't she get post form the LA? or dose it just say something helpful like Fenland counsel?

[@andymcgeechan8318]

@@hens0w Very good point !

[@ThorinWolf]

3:47 we do so by 2 ways primarily. Postal county - the area that a single, large postal sorting centre covers, and required on addresses - and council county - effectively which council maintains and provides for the area. When not referring to counties, we more likely refer to ourselves by region or city.

[@Parker_Theemotherian]

So neat ngl tho keep it up man love ur video's this was so neat, Loved it lots.

[@sandrapalumbo-q4f]

I was born and bred in East Yorkshire in the medievil town of Beverley I am a Tyke ..I belong to the House of York and I wear the White Rose with pride if you want plain speaking folk then Yorkshire is the place to be we speak as we see and we dont care if we please or offend LOL

[@cryptotharg7400]

"Hear all, see all, say nowt! Eat all, drink all, pay nowt!" 😅🤣😂

[@robnash5311]

Sophistication? Don't talk to me about sophistication! I've BEEN to Leeds.

[@footshotstube]

jay foreman is the go to for maps, and words

[@uppyraptor49]

In france they are called departments, of course we know, i live in the borough of east lindsey in the county of lincolnshire

[@rmcneall]

This is a great channel. Good on you Tyler for your curiosity and openness!

[@TylerRumple]

Thank you!

[@nickk6518]

I'm a born and bred son of the ancient County of Surrey and my paternal family have been here for over 500 years, although Kingston upon Thames is now a London Borough.

[@MelanieRuck-dq5uo]

Oh wow! Tyler mentioned a place, Wingerworth, which is only a few minutes away from where we live!

[@johncrofts4393]

Counties are only important when it comes to County Cricket 😅

[@JECastle4]

I grew up in Banbury, everybody knows it's in Oxfordshire, well those who live there. I now live in Chatham, historically part of Kent and currently in Medway Unitary Authority. I understand there's another shuffling of local authority boundaries coming soon.

[@Kalbot84]

5: 36 Something about how Americans pronounce the whole of Nottingham always gets me. I was at a Spin Doctors gig once years ago and the singer said between songs "yeah were going all over England, last night we played in a place called Notting Ham" and everyone in the crowd shouted "It's Not-Num" in almost exact unison Edit: OMG and then you hit me with Dur-Ham XD Basically anywhere that has Ham at the end you just run it into the whole word and the ham becomes an "um" sound you don't need to stop mid word to pronounce the whole "ham" so Durham is pronounced "Durrum", Nottingham is prononced "Nottinum" and West Ham is pronounced, er, West Ham, shit. So it's not a hard and fast rule it turns out after all. Fuck my language.

[@lindajw100]

😂😂😂

[@lindajw100]

Look at my surname..you should hear how they try to pronounce it here in Spain! Var-ey-han is about the closest they get! It's Wareham (yup..like in Dorset)!

[@bodizmoner2838]

I used to live in the county of Lancashire and then a few years ago the redefined the area I'm in " Manchester" around Manchester as greater Manchester confusingly leaving the Lancashire cricket team which play old Trafford cricket ground in Manchester no longer in the county of Lancashire lol

[@AlanMackinnon-dn3qw]

By all accounts, the Historic County's still exists. So you are still in Lancashire.

[@bodizmoner2838]

@@AlanMackinnon-dn3qw yes true now called the old Lancashire

[@hayleyconnor5436]

Rochdale?

[@bodizmoner2838]

@@hayleyconnor5436 Hollinwood 👍

[@BoBnotThat1]

What is it with everyone thinking when you hit 50 you're an OAP. How old are you? Cos you'll be feeling the same in your late 40s. Yes 50 next year and still raving.

[@pathopewell1814]

Eighty-six and still not OAP in my mind, pity about the body!

[@johncrofts4393]

@@BoBnotThat1 Surely everyone knows that middle age starts at 70? That will obviously change to 80 in the next few years. M 77 size 9

[@tanja9364]

@@johncrofts4393I refuse to be labelled as middle aged! In fact so far in my 67 years, I have totally avoided it. I am a person NOT A LABEL (and I am NOT AN OAP!)

[@BoBnotThat1]

Ok I'm big enough to say using OAP was my bad and you're as old as you feel.

[@BoBnotThat1]

@@tanja9364 I hear you mate and my bad shouldn't of used that. As I said you're as old as you feel.

[@thevonya3977]

It is relatively complicated. Take my situation: I live in the City of Bristol, which politically is split into 4 constituencies (none of whcih are counties) and the area aroudn it is often referred to the County of Avon... However realistically it is somewhat split between the Counties of North Somerset (southern Bristol) and South Gloucestershire (northern Bristol). Even more confusingly,. some maps have the Avon area listed and showing, but no 'link' to what the area is... To add, the council taxes are governed by the City of Bristol, but the municipals (such as road repairs etc) are mostly controlled by the two main Counties... which can easily be seen when seeing the quality of roads and how quick road repairs are done when comparing the north and south of Bristol City

[@sihollett]

Avon ceased to exist 28 years ago, on its 24th birthday. It's been out of existence longer than it existed! It shouldn't be on maps. Even the Combined Authority (created 2017, but doesn't include North Somerset) named itself 'West of England', rather than Avon, because people don't like that name. The City of Bristol is an administrative county in its own right - covering a lot of suburbs (as far out as Hengrove, Ashton Vale, Bedminster Down, Withywood, Avonmouth, Henbury, Lockleaze, Speedwell, Brislington and Stockwood). It has about 480k people in it - more than 1.5 times South Gloucestershire's 300k (BANES 200k, N Somerset 220k) - it is the main county of that urban area and is even a county for the purposes of the Lieutenancy Act 1996 (commonly called 'Ceremonial Counties'). It doesn't, however, control the whole urban area - the northern and eastern edge of the urban area (Filton, Frenchay, Kingswood, Hanham) is in the administrative county of South Gloucestershire (ceremonially Gloucestershire). A tiny bit of the urban area to the south (Whitechurch) is in the county Bath and North East Somerset and some very nearby towns and villages are North Somerset (both those two are ceremonially Somerset). This is where the difference in road repairs come in. *the second-smallest in England by area, beating the only other English city that is also, ceremonially, a county: the City of London.

[@jeffeastmond8481]

... 28 years after it was abolished and we *still* can't put the correct county on any order form online which has a drop-down box. You can find 'Avon' but not North Somerset, Bath and North-East Somerset or South Gloucestershire. Living in the first-named, I just put in 'Somerset' and my delivery still gets to my door...

[@JesusLovesYou-nd1rz]

I think the easiest way of thinking about it is like this; a US State is equivalent to a British county or if in Scotland a council area. Within all these counties there are districts, which have their own forms of government within along side a county administration, and within a district there a range of local government administrations mainly civil parishes which have a either a parish council or a town council (unless it is organised as a unparished area) then it'll be a borough council. I know it all seems very complicated.

[@lukmankazeem4228]

I used to live in fishersgate, brighton. Everyone always confuses if its west or west sussex. You just go with the flow, really.

[@lawrencemcginley9937]

In Northamptonshire there is a village called Earls Barton and the next village along is Saxon for farm of Doddas people

[@brigidsingleton1596]

@@lawrencemcginley9937 In Suffolk - along the main road from / to the town of 'Bury St.Edmunds' - is the village of 'Great Barton'. It has a Main Street of just six houses, and a Newsagents, and the rest of the village spreads out all around the 'Main (High?) Street' on both sides. There is also a celebrated racehorse Stud there ('Great Barton Stud') where years ago, the _Aga Khan_ kept his racehorses, back in the day (1960's - 1970's at least). My late Mum's Aunt and her family lived there (not at the Stud!!) and they had a huge garden and greenhouses where they grew their own veg, had fruit trees etc... Cousin Donald also had a boat which he fished from - probably in 'The Wash' - so they were fairly self-sufficient, other than meats and poultry, which they would either bus into to Bury S.E to buy, or buy from nearby farms to fill their larders (and freezers) to compliment their homegrown fare... (They may've even kept chickens themselves, but I don't remember seeing any in their garden). I haven't lived a 'country lifestyle' full time, but am aware, more than at least some other 'townies' that it can be a hard, yet satisfying life... Better with the "mod-cons" of the twentieth century, of course, and, I assume much improved nowadays (hopefully). I haven't been there since the '70's, and expect Mum's 'Cousin Donald' (an ex-roofer) may have already passed on, as his wife 'Aunt Doris' had already done so, before my Mum* did in Oct.2015, age 98_yrs+7mnths*.

[@vicicooper4720]

Well, I didn't know a tenth of all that but I can remember GB having a Cumberland and a Westmoreland. Learnt loads, thanks for finding this video clip.

[@MrAndyroo]

I live in Somerset (used to Avon where i live, before councils "took on more duities") and the council is referred to as B&NES. This means Bath & North East Somerset. say my address is Bath, B&NES. For reference, i use the Adminstritive counties.

[@martinshepherd626]

I was born and raised in The City & County of Bristol, sandwiched between Gloucestershire to the North & North Somerset to the South. Unless you are local most people across the Country are not aware of this.

[@carolthomas6334]

I lived in the county of Avon. Still see it sometimes as people forget it changed to north somerset.

[@phoeberatdog5594]

The Rutland border is at the bottom of my garden, but I live in Lincolnshire. My Postal code is from Peterborough, which is in Cambridgeshire... I work in Northamptonshire, but cross various borders 3 times to get there.... It's quite simple really! .... Although, if you ever visit some of these counties, you may feel like a time traveller!

[@lindakirk698]

Before I moved I lived in Leicestershire, the administrative area was North West Leicestershire, but the post code & telephone code was that of Derby(shire)! So YES we all know about the way counties are divided up & financially managed!! Stop struggling abd concentrate!

[@sundayslayerzz2367]

As a swaddie. I understand this

[@jeinadragonia6843]

West Yorkshire Lass here!! Gods own County!!! Yes the rivalry with the red roses continues today...

[@nataliezitzmann6047]

Well i have a Bradford postcode, which is west Yorkshire and if i walk 10 minutes west, there is a sign for west yorkshire, but i live in a place called Sutton, but its sutton-in-craven as there are a few Suttons in the UK, and Craven is an area. Craven council is in Skipton, which is in NORTH Yorkshire, so i live in North Yorkshire, but i have a west Yorkshire postcode. Fun fact..if i drive 10 minutes east...its hellos Lancashire. Where a chair is a chur and stairs are sturs. Ice is pronouce arse (not a rolling r). We must not go there, its the dark side. 😂 no its actually pretty, but we have the rivals betweeen white and red rose.

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

Lancashire. At least they are not Bl##dy Southerners!

[@steveguest2003]

Each county has an administrative city, i.e., York is the borough and shire city of Yorkshire. Lancaster city is the shire city for Lancashire. Counties can be broken down̈ into borough and county council's and for small villages and towns parish councils. Just to complicate matters further

[@shaundavidssd]

Ww2 planes/ships were named after counties ,you got the lancaster bomber,the exeter,cheshire,Hampshire, belfast ships as well

[@johnthompson457]

Well, it’s a bit more complicated and precise. For example, you have the town and county class cruisers the Belfast and Exeter being town class and the Devonshire and Kent being county class. The bomber aircraft were named after major towns and cities such as the Manchester, Lancaster and Halifax.

[@rachealbrown2166]

My family live in Leicestershire but their mail address has a Derbyshire post code. At one point their address involved references to Staffordshire town as well because they live near the borders with both other counties.

[@riverraven7359]

The government split Yorkshire up for political reasons but regardless which part you live in we are all Yorkshire, and stuff the politicians intentions.

[@Shaun.ALAW.]

Would start a war, if they tried to take any of God's land away from us. YRA.

[@GordonPryra]

"Don't tell me that this is a thing, where England hasn't decided how many counties it has", I am starting to love this American Guy, and if he ever wants to live on these benighted shores. I would 100% adopt him so he can get a passport without having to pay the £6.84 a UK passport now costs on the black market (despite it being blue)

[@Cythan]

The Cotswolds are a geographic region based around the stone under the ground that can be used for the walls and rouves my area uses thatch for rouves as it has no stone for example bath stone is very famous

[@jodiewhiteside4194]

I'm Dorset we have barely changed out in the countryside. Though my mum knows when the borders moved and now you can cross sticky out bits into and out of it and back again

[@jopearson3022]

Counties and postal towns can be a bit confusing. I live in Derbyshire, but because we're not far from Greater Manchester, the first two letters of our postcode (the UK equivalent to a Zip Code) is not DE for Derbyshire, but SK for Stockport, which is the closest postal sorting office in Greater Manchester...

[@aepheastus]

There is only one County of Yorkshire which is divided into four administrative areas of North, South, East and West Yorkshire

[@NelsonsAvenger]

As a Brit, I am very proud of coming from Devon (Plymouth specifically), and of being an adoptive Londoner. Though historically where I live is on the Kent-Surrey border. I think most people are proud of the county they come from particularly, in my experience, Northerners. Also, regarding counties on letters, we still do this and I wasn't even aware this was unnecessary -_- My dad loves counties and stuff and he's been spending years going to each English county and collecting a county flag badge; he has two to go- Dorset and Rutland- and once he's visited them he's going to make a blanket with an aproximate map of England. Incidentally I don't think Dorset is a formally recognised county anymore (but I could be wrong). County flags might be a cool one to do. There are a lot of them and some are horrendously confusing. I think some places even have two flags!

[@Waterford1992]

I live in Tyne and Wear and I am not sure why this county still exists as it has not centralized political entity anymore since its county council was abolished in 1986.

[@sihollett]

It lasted just 12 years, and died 38 years ago - at this point it may as well be 'Huntingdon and Peterborough' (lasted 9 years ending 50 years ago), ie completely forgotten! I guess Nexus PTE and Tyne and Wear Police still exist...

[@wrightdiy811]

I'm from Yorkshire born and bred and can attest to the Yorkshire Pride. Each counties has its own flag and flower, the most noticeable that you see this in history is the War of the Roses, between Yorkshire (White Rose) and Lancaster (Red Rose)

[@pencilpusher9166]

West Yorkshire here 🙂

[@angelabushby1891]

I live in Hull, East Yorkshire,on the River Humber

[@haychpea]

There’s a town near me called Long Eaton, it’s situated in Derbyshire with a Derbyshire council running the schools but it’s postal address and post code is Nottinghamshire. This is very much a modern problem that no one has sorted out yet

[@MartinMilnerUK]

and I'm originally from Spondon, not too far away :-)

[@jopearson3022]

There used to be a single county of Yorkshire, but it was broken up into four smaller counties to make administration easier. And if you want to translate British or English counties into an American equivalent, think of the counties as being equivalent to the various US States. At that level, if the States are divided up into counties, the English counties are then divided into Parishes, which historically were based on the area covered by a single church.

[@BoBnotThat1]

I'm in Kent, NR Rochester, the garden of England. Also part of the home counties.

[@moonshayde]

Am also in Kent, Isle of Sheppey. Hi neighbour!!

[@BoBnotThat1]

@moonshayde mate I was born in minster hospital 😂 Small world 🌍😁

[@yorkshirelad8354]

Yorkshire is all one but it does have districts in it like west east north and south outside London Yorkshire is the biggest county 👍❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🚜

[@infraRedRidingHood]

Yep im in the middle

[@jammiedodger7040]

Technically Yorkshire is three counties but used to be 1 but it is the biggest county in the country.

[@tomfoss3533]

Counties matter, much of where you come from gives a lot to your identity. Things like your accent, vocabulary, and how you behave are largely defined by your county.

[@stephenrichards2063]

The level of ignorance on display here, is on a whole new level with this one!

[@andrewc2753]

Basically, the administrative counties are for practical purposes, to make management easier, and historic counties are more for identity purposes. Administrative counties are the modern day official counties. The historic counties are mainly just a concept. I’m from Greater Manchester, which was historically part of Lancashire, and I put that I’m from Greater Manchester when I’m writing my address down for whatever reason. But I personally identify with Lancashire as it’s linked to the culture, history and identity of the area. Postal counties are just another thing that most people don’t even know about. Best not get confused by that as it’s the least relevant of them all.

[@sihollett]

Unfortunate example as the administrative county of Greater Manchester only administered stuff from 1974-1986. It still exists on paper but its administrative functions are the remit of the boroughs and it has had zero practical purpose for approaching 40 years. (The 2011-present Greater Manchester Combined Authority is something different to the concept of counties)

[@JillHughes-n1h]

They changed boundaries lots. In wales too

[@SoniaGilchrist]

I was born in Gateshead Durham in 1965. Then at 1972 lived in Gateshead Tyne & Wear.

[@Mad_Hamz]

You missed the full song featured during the credits of the video, after the commercial

[@Lynnefromlyn]

Also you are familiar with some of our names because you have them over there ‘’’Lancaster County for example where as here the county is called Lancashire the capital city of Lancashire is a Lancaster. You took it as a county name. Oxford is a city here, capital city of Oxfordshire but you have Oxford `Town (and I know this from Bib Dylan’s song of the same name) By the way Durham is pronounced Durrum.

[@pedanticlady9126]

Random fact. The reigning monarch, whether King or Queen, also holds the title Duke of Lancaster.

[@winterknight4176]

Lancashire's county city, where the County Council is based, is Preston, not Lancaster.

[@Air_Cardinal]

Proudly from coastal North Yorkshire, formerly the North Riding. Growing up sometimes it felt like the rest of Yorkshire didn't exist, we liked what we had on our doorstep.

[@garethhiggin3277]

All of Britains settlements derive from either Roman, Saxon, Viking or Norman conquests Post Roman to Norman dates, the county of Yorkshire was vast, covering All Lancashire & most of Cumbria but after1066 when Williams cadet branches Lancashire ( Lancaster ) & Yorkshire ( York ) were formed culminating eventually in the war of the roses for the English throne.. You can live in Greater Manchester but actually live in Lancashire which technically Merseyside & Greater Manchester are both part of Lancashire

[@gwilymjones1298]

Yep, Nottingham as in Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men 😊💪. Did you know that although Many still argue this Fact. But Robin Hood has Indeed be Proven to have been a real person who did indeed rob from the rich to give to the poor? His actual grave was discovered in a church grave yard after work was being carried out to trim back hedges. Not only that but Little Johns grave has also been located in the same Cemetery as Robin Hood. If i remember rightly they are actually buried next to eachother!! 😊😊💪

[@shibatron5392]

I’m in North Lincolnshire and a lot of options for post STILL TO THIS DATE have South Humberside as the delivery options

[@thinkeightsix]

Country: United Kingdom Region: Great Britian (Main Island) States/Provinces/Prefectures: England, Scotland, Wales, North Ireland, Isle of Man Counties: Yorkshire, Essex, etc

[@HGMNinja]

Im about 4 miles from Wingerworth. Not many people call it that. They call it Wingworth. The people around it. Last I focused on it, for my websites, ther are 83 counties in GB, eng, Ire, Scot, Wales. Its not complicated. Youve only heard of the ones that have been stmped on, as you say, famous things. Lancaster Bomber for instance. Robbin Hood Nottingham etc.

[@yorkshirelad8354]

Yorkshire 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🚜

[@infraRedRidingHood]

West

[@Helzand2catz]

South

[@nataliezitzmann6047]

Ey up from N/W border

[@yorkshirelad8354]

@nataliezitzmann6047 😀👍❤️

[@andrewhargreaves504]

Those are county towns. York county town of Yorkshire. Lancaster county town of Lancashire. Chester county town of Cheshire. Buckingham of Buckinghamshire and so on.

[@madit6434]

In general speaking, we say we live in our postal county but I know my historical one too

[@richardclark-k4x]

Like you, the County madness does blow a lot of our minds! It is, however, useful for explaining to someone the broad location of a town or place they won't have heard of, rather than spending half an a hour zeroing in on somewhere by using the nearby big cities. For example, saying "I grew up in Warwickshire," as opposed to saying, " I'm from Bedworth," ... er where? Or, "I had a weekend away in Lincolnshire," etc. Also, a bit like the US, some place names are not unique, so you might say the name, then the County, to distinguish it. To be fair, the whole thing is bonkers, though 😂

[@WilliamSmith-mx6ze]

Bed'uth, Bed'uth, born and bred, strong in the arm and thick in the head. Hugs and kisses from Treacletown.

[@personperson.7744]

I only know about the postal county because I am in one of those weird regions where I am in one ceremonial county and a different postal county because my town is closer to the county in the next county than the county town in my own county

[@infraRedRidingHood]

Yorkshire is pretty much Middle Earth its right there in the title yorkShire plus we have the same accent the history and the guy that wrote Lotr lived just south of me and my grandad was Scottish so i have the full Dwarf Hobbit accent

[@harrison78]

However the culture can be quite different in each county, as can the local dialect and unique words for different things.

[@hens0w]

Most people not from the biggest cities will know and be able to answer what county they live in you'll normally get the correct of England 48 ceremonial counties, and prompted they will have an idea were a random different county is. They will have some idea of the local government structure in there county but not any where else. Beyond a few bylaws you only really need to worry about different laws if you leave England especially for scotland

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

1:56 I think all of the “-shire”s are counties

[@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138]

Yes. County is Norman. Shire is Anglo-Saxon