English counties explained

[@JayForeman]

Stick around til the very end of this video... I promise it's worth it!

[@Sarahbryson321]

Ok

[@TheInvisibleCactusYT]

Funny ad I presume

[@Redcliffe_]

Ye

[@jipsvlogandgaming380]

Ok! I will

[@user-rh5vb7ee6j]

E

[@dyent]

"Yorkshire isn't a place, Yorkshire is a state of mind." I'm from Yorkshire, and that Mighty Boosh quote always stuck with me.

[@MrBlobs]

That's the mighty boosh! I was convinced I had heard that before

[@ChrisBigBad]

Now I got Jay-Z and Alicia Keys in my head blearing: Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from York-shire (ayy, ah-ha) (uh, yeah) Pastries of green (yeah) where dreams are made of There's nothin' you can't do (yeah) (okay)

[@ivanskavinskiskavar6242]

You can get help for it⁉️

[@Copperflash]

ye can take the lass out yorkshire, but ye can’t take the yorkshire out the lass

[@tottenhamhotspurish]

I’m: “Yorkshire born, southern bred, strong in arm, and intelligent in head”.

[@SwitchbackSylveon]

Yorkshire Tea is grown in Equatorial Yorkshire, the locals seem to want to call it Kenya but we all know it's Equatorial Yorkshire

[@anentity8960]

I wonder why they don't call it New Yor... never mind. New Yorkshire? New New Yorkshire? Brand New Yorkshire? New Yorkshire upon the Equator?

[@Houndzable]

😂😂😂

[@nikolaangelovski2252]

@@anentity8960 The Newest York?

[@koop5365]

Kenshire. Ey up lad that'll do.

[@kabobawsome]

@@anentity8960 "Newer York"

[@Ghiaman1334]

8:23 The ukelele smashing wasn't because Mark wanted Jay to stop singing, but that he'd been reminded that Rutland still exists

[@pqrstzxerty1296]

Well its an area where most BBC producers, directors, and lovelies live.

[@pengiunanimatorguy]

Exactly

[@flyingsheep567]

Just on a technicality, 1) the word sheriff actually comes from the shortening of the word shire-reeve (a reeve being a Anglo-Saxon local official) 2) counties were never ruled by counts, and count was never a English title. Count is the French/European version of earl, who ruled the shires at the time of the Norman invasion. Because they spoke French, they renamed the shires counties, as it was the equivalent term. This is also the reason why the female equivalent of earl is countess.

[@JayForeman]

Those are both very good technicalities. Thanks for explaining! Wish I’d known them when I made this video.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

Its said the reason why the Normans didn't change the English Earls into counts is because the word in Norman French sounded very like a rude word in Old English

[@JayForeman]

Now I REALLY wish I’d known about this before making the episode.

[@justapak_]

@@JayForeman yo jay, is there any reason why map men stopped?

[@justapak_]

@@torna2508 tysm for telling me this! i’d thought it be smthn like map men is cancelled but i’m happy they’re coming back!

[@katherinegrant4651]

As well as being the smallest county in England, Rutland also has the claim to fame of being the last English county to open a McDonald's. It didn't have one until November 2020.

[@scrittle]

What an achievement, go Rutland! XD

[@nomercyformayhem2238]

It also got only one train station, Geoff Marshall visited it in his Least Used Stations videos

[@arthurterrington8477]

The Macky D thing is true, it was a big story on local telly news. However Rutland being the smallest county is England is apocryphal: It had been, until City of London was granted county status. Rutland is now either third or fourth smallest, depending on whether the tide is out around the Isle of Wight.

[@donaloflynn]

@@arthurterrington8477 The *City* of London is a county now? These idiots never learn, do they?

[@arthurterrington8477]

​@@donaloflynnHenry I was the idiot in in question, in 1132 he granted the City of London county status. So you have the square mile core of the City of London as one county, then Greater London is the other county which covers the rest of London. Therefore two counties form London as a whole (which is also referred as a city, but has no actual status as such... so it makes perfect sense!)

[@Anaguma79]

M: "What's going on?" J: "We're doing Map Men." I do not know why that is so funny.

[@JeyPeyy]

Genius British comedy

[@kichi_____________6813]

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[@Triplane1234]

why is J in map men, she has to go back to Copper 9

[@scottspangler6363]

Leave it to jay to write a joke song that’s cut off, only for him to actually have a full song in the credits. Love this stuff

[@bongosbongos]

I loved that - really appreciated

[@DefinitelyAPotato]

@Chuan Cresi🌹 heck

[@DefinitelyAPotato]

@@kichi_____________6813 heck

[@joaquingonzalez834]

my god this reply section stinks

[@talonhowe8131]

KZbin's gotta do something about these bots, it's getting really out of hand.

[@domhuckle]

Did you hear about Yorkshire airways first flight? A passenger asked "where are we headed?" and was told by the crew "why, we'll fly about for a bit and then land back in Yorkshire - why would anyone want to go anywhere else?" 😊

[@JayForeman]

Hale and Pace fan, eh?

[@sw_9_9_9]

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[@ShortHax]

Can’t wait for them to try to pinpoint and pronounce Welsh county names in another video

[@Redcliffe_]

Hi checkmark

[@takashi.mizuiro]

ye

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Being Welsh, they're really easy for me. However, English place names are really weird, with stupid letters and weird pronunciation. It's a mad place East of the Border. And the only complicated bit we have is Dyfed, and that's just because it hasn't existed for ages, but is still on things as the alternative is changing it to "Ceredigion-Sir Benfro-Sir Gaerfyrddin" on everything.

[@TheJackx666]

They said this was their last video if I'm not mistaken

[@56independent]

It was always Gwyneff for me.

[@nrakha1731]

Jay: "Now that we've eaten all those biscuits, can do some research." Mark: "I've done it all." Me being like jay in every group project

[@andreizonga4611]

I am like Mark. Usually, I have to take in a coworker that will do almost nothing and I have to do almost all of the work.

[@SpahGaming]

I am both, i do nothing and eat biscuits until t-2 days till a project where i will then have miraculously completed it just by the due date

[@ninawth]

I am the Mark of group projects.

[@thorodinson6649]

@@SpahGaming who are you trying to lie to? We know what reality is

[@nissa7737]

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[@jacobbeckwith2296]

As someone who sleeps on a bed, with a Yorkshire flag hung on the wall overlooking me as I sleep, protecting me from the horrors of Lancashire and the South, I am happy that our pride has been highlighted in this video. God's own County

[@happyspanners]

YORKSHIRE YORKSHIRE YORKSHIRE

[@sophiabroom]

I recently was told it was God's on country bc of the Yorkshire countryside not gods own county

[@NicFarra]

My great-grandfather left the West Riding in 1848, first of the family to venture so far, and that's how I always phrase it when people ask where my family came from.

[@BunkMorelandsTie]

God must really hate football then.

[@happyspanners]

@@sophiabroom Both are acceptable. Depends how secessionist you're feeling that day.

[@janisila8240]

the way Mark says "different" at 7:11 kills me every time

[@mranima748]

It sounds like snape

[@grooverchan1600]

You and Tom Scott posted 3 minuites apart and this isn’t the first time. Together you have made my monday 10 x better

[@PKMartin]

They clearly coordinated this when they were off partially melting/puking into a paper bag in those planes.

[@vitani_uk]

IIRC they said that they each schedule their video for 4pm on a Monday, which is a really boring reason, sorry.

[@notemusic]

Ah, a nerd with good taste, always great to see one of my kind

[@yuvalne]

Just 16:00 on Monday, not a big deal

[@grooverchan1600]

Woooaaah this blew up, erm ok then.

[@Azeria]

Notts County football club is in the city, and therefore not the county, meanwhile Forest play in the City Ground… which is across the Trent and therefore in the county, not the city.

[@Oblivion9873]

Classic. Like chelsea playing tottenham for decades (they might still do?)

[@xaph5575]

Imagine being a county fan

[@thesmithersy]

@@Oblivion9873 You mean like Chelsea being called Chelsea despite being in Fulham?

[@williamhrivnak7345]

American sports teams do that too. New York Giants and Jets both play in New Jersey. Dallas teams technically play in a separate city called Fort Worth. Some of the Washington, DC teams like the NFL team that no longer has a name play in Virginia or Maryland instead of the District of Columbia

[@andyjay729]

Sounds like how in California, Mount Shasta is in Siskiyou County, not Lassen County; Lassen Peak is in Shasta County, not Lassen County, and nothing is in Lassen County except one of California's toughest prisons.

[@jamesd512]

I'm from Worcester, and my computing teacher once said: "we use a base 10 counting system because humans have 10 fingers, apart from in Hereford where they use base 12". All in all I think it's a good thing we are separate again.

[@rosiefay7283]

I'm also from Worcs. I always thought it bizarre that Herefs and Worcs got combined -- weren;t they both big enough on their own? Even more so that Herefs got first billing when it was the less important and less populous of the two counties, and with the less important county city.

[@jamesd512]

@@rosiefay7283 Exactly, and they're on the wrong side of the Malverns

[@MasonGreenWeed]

Hereford is not human?

[@justme-hh4vp]

you can count to base 12 using your fingers by using your thumb to count each of the three phalanges of your remaining 4 fingers. In Hereford that would give you base 15!

[@JamesOseman]

I was born in Herefordshire and grew up in Worcestershire, I was always picked on for having bigger webbed feet than the other kids

[@benry007]

I do actually wish they had done more to teach counties in school. Map geography is actually more useful then a lot of what we did learn in geography

[@andrewtaylor5984]

One used to be able to obtain plywood jigsaws of the counties of England and Wales. There was also one for Scotland, and probably one for Ireland, but I never had that one. There were also similar jigsaws of the USA and Australia. For the USA each state had one piece, except California and Texas, three pieces, and Montana, two. (This was before Alaska became a state.) In the case of Australia, the states had to be broken up even further. There were roughly 200 pieces per puzzle, and the seas were included to make a rectangle.

[@andrewtaylor5984]

What you need is a pre-1974 map of Great Britain and Ireland. I learned the counties by studying maps. I also learned the main trade routes of Great Britain, such as the main rail routes (before Beeching), the main trunk roads. I think everyone should know which London terminus you should go to to travel to other major towns, and the basic road numbering. For instance, roads A1 to A6 radiate clockwise from London, and A7 to A9 radiate clockwise from Edinburgh.

[@bourbon2242]

the three types of rock are metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary

[@trollinape2697]

How tf is map geography more useful?

[@bourbon2242]

@@trollinape2697 more useful than what

[@evan]

I had to memorise all the counties of my home state for school but when I tried figuring out the counties of England I quickly gave up

[@OHYS]

It’s pretty cool that US states teach kids about the history and geography of the state

[@nofancypants]

Well even if you did, I don't think many Brits have them memorised either...I could probably rattle off more US states than UK counties!

[@robertdalley7450]

It was a good video tho

[@CA-ee1et]

From Delaware?

[@psammiad]

@@OHYS America is a nation of immigrants with nothing to bind them together, that's why they work so hard to indoctrinate American-ness into children.

[@cobracommander4774]

A few fun facts: Just like Yorkshire, Honolulu doesn't really exist. This is because Hawaii has no cities. The lowest level of government in that state is the county. Hawaii's counties are made up of multiple islands, and none of them have any municipalities within them. Honolulu is not legally a city, but a highly urbanized part of Honolulu County. Arlington, Virginia is another "city" that doesn't exist. It is actually a very small, highly urbanized county with no municipalities. In the US, counties exist in 48 states; the other two have different names for their administrative units between the municipal and state levels. Louisiana calls its county-equivalents "parishes" and Alaska calls its county-equivalents "boroughs". Due to a weird state law, Virginia's cities are independent of the counties that surround them, so out of the 43 jurisdictions in the US that are not part of any county or county-equivalent, 38 are in Virginia. The other five are Washington DC (a federal district not part of any state), Alaska's Unorganized Borough (technically not a borough but simply a bunch of land managed directly by the state), and the cities of St. Louis, Missouri; Baltimore, Maryland; and Carson City, Nevada; all of which are independent of the counties surrounding them. Some cities merge with the county to create a single metropolitan government, as in the case of Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida. Because of this, the entire county is legally considered to be the city, which is why Jacksonville is the most populous city in Florida by technicality while Miami is the "actual" biggest city in the state. This technicality also means that Jacksonville is officially the largest city by land area in the continental US, even though a significant portion of that land is rural. Cities can cross county lines, but neither cities nor counties can cross state lines. This is because cities are units of the state, not of the county. Counties are also units of the state, which is why they also cannot cross state lines. You may be wondering, isn't Kansas City in two states? The fact is, there are two cities called Kansas City, one in Kansas and one in Missouri. They make up a single metropolitan area, but legally they are different cities in different counties in different states. Some states in the north officially have counties but have little to no county government. Whereas the county sheriff's office would police the unincorporated parts of counties in most states, some states such as Delaware simply leave all policing outside of city limits to the state police.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Excellent comment!

[@cobracommander4774]

@@robertortiz-wilson1588 thanks lol, I spent the better part of an hour typing it out at 2 or 3 am, so I'm glad people are enjoying it

[@zacharytaylor2983]

And then you have New York City, which has subsumed 5 counties and renamed them “Boroughs” and now governs them all as a sort of quasi-SuperCounty that exists somewhere between a county government and a State government. And also: in order to subjugate these counties into the government of Greater New York, 2 of them had to be broken off from other neighboring counties which did not agree to join the new city government. The five “counties” governed by New York City are (in decreasing order of historical importance): The Borough Of Manhattan (formerly New York County) The Borough Of Brooklyn (formerly Kings County) The Borough Of Queens (formerly part of Queens County) The Borough Of The Bronx (formerly part of Westchester County) The Borough Of Staten Island (formerly Richmond County) (Also it should be noted that because the Courts system of New York State is operated at the County level, these extinct counties are still used in all official Court jurisdictions. For example, the superior court of Brooklyn is referred to as Kings County Superior Court)

[@cobracommander4774]

@@zacharytaylor2983 From what I understand the counties still nominally exist today and are legally distinct from but geographically coextensive with the boroughs. The Borough of the Bronx broke off from Westchester County and joined New York County as part of New York City, then the land that it occupies became its own county, Bronx County. The Borough of Queens stayed part of Queens County when it joined NYC, but the part of the county outside the city limits became part of Nassau County, meaning the Borough of Queens now makes up the entirety of Queens County. New York, Richmond, and Kings Counties were already coextensive with the boroughs and still are. Therefore each borough is exactly coextensive with a county today. Fun fact: I am not from and haven't been to New York. I just have an obsession with US geographical oddities and way too much time on my hands lol.

[@rwboa22]

@@zacharytaylor2983 same with their District Attorneys. Instead of a single DA covering all of NYC, there are five DAs. Even stranger is with the Roman Catholic Church in Greater New York City: Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island are in the Archdiocese of New York (which also includes Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, and Dutchess Counties), while Brooklyn and Queens is located in the Diocese of Brooklyn (with Nassau and Suffolk Counties, since the 1960's, being part of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, but before that, they were part of Brooklyn).

[@lnorlnor]

As an American I realized recently when I started playing more games on maps that I knew tons of names of English counties and cities from books and stuff but had no idea where most of them were, other than like London and Yorkshire.

[@AgnesIona]

Same. And as the years have past I have supplemented those books with the vast majority of my visual media being from Great Britain as well. You think some of the locations and distances would start to sink in through shear osmosis. Nope. Now I just have even more English counties, cities, and dialects, that I "know", and am still confused as to WHERE it all is. 😄

[@andrewtaylor5984]

What you need is a pre-1974 map of Great Britain, showing the historic counties. You might be able to obtain a road atlas before this date from a second-hand bookshop, or jumble sale, and they are by no means rare. Most of them indicate the "proper" counties.

[@joadbreslin5819]

As an American, you won't have a difficult time convincing anybody that you are lacking in certain geographical knowledge.

[@JamieElli]

Notably the US has counties too, and very few people know where any of them are either. Not because they aren't well defined, but because there are literally thousands of them.

[@awaywiththefaeries9464]

If it helps, I’ve lived in Britain for all my life (22 years) and I didn’t realise Derbyshire was two counties away (I live in Rutland) until I looked it up online.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The entire county situation is so incredibly british. Based on tradition and complete chaos, yet somehow it works anyway.

[@seanmoran6510]

Break the Union Release England from this Imperial Shackle

[@TSR1989FF]

^ Fruitcake XD

[@LancelotGraal]

*doesn't work in the slightest but everyone's still cheerful and having a beer in the pub and making small talk about it.

[@ericwalsh2954]

County's arnt British exclusive and didn't originate they're

[@vulpes7079]

@@ericwalsh2954 nobody fucking asked

[@michaelrobinson166]

A nod to the Rutles and their cultural significance is always much appreciated

[@noalarms4618]

I have always thought In the back of my mind Cheese and onions

[@michaelrobinson166]

@@noalarms4618 I have always thought that the world was unkind Cheese and onions

[@noalarms4618]

@@michaelrobinson166 Do I have to spell it out?

[@michaelrobinson166]

@@noalarms4618 C-H-E-E-S-E-A-N-D-O-N-I-O-N-S Oh, no

[@Dresdentrumpet]

What are rutlians (sp?) like? They seem to like having their own county. Do they have a distinct accent? Can you tell immediately if someone came from Rutland? If there were two people and one was from Rutland and the other from the counties surrounding Rutland could you make a distinction between the two? If so what would tip you off?

[@RustyBrakes]

I personally enjoyed the postman pat theme being played while discussing postal counties

[@Hennell]

I'm 100% convinced that music wasn't there until I rewinded to check!

[@nuttyboy7164]

What video was that?

[@jannetteberends8730]

Didn’t notice it. So checked. And now it i my head. Thank you very much for the earworm. 🎵Postman pat, 🎵postman pat, 🎶postman pat and 🎶his black and white cat🎶🎶

[@station240]

They should put the bob the builder theme in something about construction.

[@christopherwebb3517]

Kentucky used to have laws that made it really easy for locals to split off and form their own counties if they didn't like how the county they were in was being run. That's why Kentucky has more counties (120) than any other US state, despite it only being medium size in area and on the small side in population. When it was first granted statehood, Kentucky had a grand total of three counties.

[@chipsinsideajar1372]

Georgia (159) and Texas (254) both have more counties than Kentucky (120), as does Virginia (133) if you count its independent city-counties.

[@IAmTheRealSteven]

Quite the big step up considering at one point Kentucky was itself just a county of Virginia

[@joeym5243]

In addition to Kentucky definetly not having the most counties in the USA, which someone else mentioned, it had 9 when it was admitted as a state not 3.

[@Zeta4]

Did they only ever break apart further and further or did they join together with other counties when they wanted too?

[@fmachine86]

I learned the most counties thing when I was a kid as well. Turns out it’s wrong, even though I’ve been spouting it off my whole life.

[@buzzfiend]

Jay, I thank you for taking the time and effort or hiring someone with it to supply closed captions for the deaf and hard of hearing. Makes it a lot easier to share your content when you are able to be understood by more people! Thank you so much :)

[@JayForeman]

You’re very welcome! :) Please let me know if there’s any way I can improve it. (I type them out meself!)

[@buzzfiend]

@@JayForeman adding names before the actions or statements performed always helps, but never EVER have travelling captions, it drives the everyone in the Deaf community that I know crazy. You're doing rather well, actually, and unless you have someone talking over you, it's quite understandable. By using an "[ACTOR]: [STATEMENT/ACTION]" phrasing of CC it can help sort out who is who in each video, since the Deaf can't always get a name registered quickly. Just easier for one-time watchers. Thanks for checking in and asking! It's hard to find someone who cares so much :) I hope when I start my own content that I can pay such attention to the wishes of my own viewers to make my content the best it can be. Thanks, Jay!

[@pete.youtube]

@@buzzfiend Hi Seth. Thanks for these useful tips to help improve subtitles/captions. But, one thing, what’s a “travelling caption”?.

[@buzzfiend]

@@pete.youtube it appears my reply has been removed...? "Travelling captions" meaning captions that change position often. Another major issue is splitting info across the screen. As long as the information expressed stays in one place, and isn't fractured into multiple places, it should be more help. I hope I've helped in some way! I would post a link to something that would help me explain more, but I think KZbin censored my comment for some reason.

[@pete.youtube]

@@buzzfiend Thanks!! That's very helpful.

[@JayForeman]

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[@noahlaws531]

Never knew you were Welsh...

[@SatMan18]

Finally found it after scrolling 1k comments

[@jahangirkhizer6289]

Wow

[@PatrickMapper]

When you get into the maths exam without revising Also found a sneaky trick to get to this comment quickly

[@frenvr]

okay!

[@hesterclapp9717]

"Right, now that we've eaten all those biscuits, should we start doing some research?" Absolutely brilliant

[@coolcat8b]

Brilliant and delicious! 😊 Those are good cookies.

[@breakerdawn8429]

I love British Biscuits it's quite good and goes well with tea

[@nissa7737]

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[@nissa7737]

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[@skutraj]

Moved to the UK 12 years ago and every time someone confirmed my address in the first year, I was horrendously confused 😂 I believed we were in Manchester, got corrected to Greater Manchester, but wrote Cheshire at the end of the address (no mention of Manchester). And the postcode is Warrington…

[@andrewtaylor5984]

Postcode districts are not based on counties, and never have been. Please also remember that they were introduced in 1967. (The guinea pig, Croydon, was introduced the previous year.) At the time there were no immediate plans to reform Local Government.

[@loganholmes2991]

So do you live in Altrincham or timperley 😂

[@carlocimino3358]

Thank you Mark for making an executive decision regarding Jay's absurd pink ukelele.

[@HaXD1209]

What a lovely comment, I sure hope there aren't any bots/self-promotion/spams in its reply section

[@StateoftheWorld]

I can't be the only one whos hyped for Unfinished London to start back up

[@adeadgirl13]

Maybe someone should start an Unfinished Unfinished London series.

[@orangelake2268]

AYOOO UL HYPE

[@In_Our_Timeline]

may be

[@Sajid_A829]

@Suddenly ma sha Allah

[@kichi_____________6813]

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[@achim8239]

Some added info to the "manageabke chunks of land" (2:05): After the French revolution, the country was divided into "départements" (roughly the size of counties...), and their dimensions AND the choice of the town as administrative centre were defined such that this town could be reached on horseback in one day from any place in the département.

[@JayForeman]

That’s a lovely fact!

[@buildermaster4421]

@@JayForeman when’s the next video coming out?

[@farzaan1479]

@@JayForeman there was a similar standard in the US of counties needing to be a days journey since county seats contain the county courthouse. That's why east of the Mississippi the counties are small and irregular since horse was the primary form of transport at the time the counties were founded, but west of the Mississippi the counties are big and boxy since by that time the primary form of transit was rail

[@randomstuff5676]

@@buildermaster4421 It’s came out now. Replying from 26.02.22 (02.26.22 if you are American.)

[@borjesvensson8661]

And up northern sweden around the same time the parishes was so big that the peasants were exemt from going to church every sunday as it took several days by sled to reach the church!

[@zmeganz]

My fiancé is British and I’m moving over in a couple months. He spent so long trying to explain counties to me. I was so confused by it all. Too bad that he didn’t know about this video. Could’ve saved him a couple hours 😂

[@user-ed7et3pb4o]

Welcome!

[@underloveryz2731]

I've been doing research on Wikipedia, wasted time...

[@sethkeown5965]

Hows england treating you?

[@zmeganz]

@@sethkeown5965 it’s been great, thanks 😁

[@krollpeter]

I watched the video, but I am still not sure about the meaning of this all.

[@luxford60]

Glad we got to hear Jay's all the counties song.

[@duckph]

To listen without skipping to the end, here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/lavSlKecgtBpb8U

[@Guyzilla]

Am from the states. Couldn't care less about british politics or geography. Have watched every Politics Unboringed, Unfinished London, and Map Men. You make these topics so much fun to learn about. Keep up the good work.

[@sigmasquadleader]

I am also from the 'States. I think it's hilarious their counties are so small, and yet some states in the 'States have counties nearly 3/5ths as large as the entirety of *England*, not including the whole U.K.

[@nickfifteen]

@@sigmasquadleader Then you've got San Bernardino County in California, which is a shade under 21 thousand square miles... Only English as a whole is bigger.

[@calvin4864]

@@sigmasquadleader If the population in those large counties in the US somehow gain a large influx in people, those counties will turn into smaller ones. That's the nature of how local government works.

[@alistairt7544]

@@sigmasquadleader Just give it more time. Once you have more people living within those counties, each cities from every corner of those counties might diverge to their own counties, or at least there will be a level of division or re-drawing. Even the electoral districts change once there's enough people to create a new one.

[@happygilmore5948]

​@@sigmasquadleader Hell, Alaska's biggest county-equivalent, the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, is bigger than the UK as a whole. It's roughly the size of Norway or Japan.

[@JonMW]

And now I know why the Cheshire Cat introduces himself as Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat.

[@oscareyone]

Oh thank you Nextian, my friend!

[@stickinthemud23]

There was a Prime Minister once who had a “Cheshire cat smile.“ What was his name again, now?

[@indigoziona]

For a comment like that, I can aFforde a like.

[@stickinthemud23]

@Tofu_0w0 Yep - that’s who I was referring to. There were a Diana movie where Prince Philip was irritated with Tony Blair and referred to “his Cheshire cat smile.”

[@arthurterrington8477]

Or perhaps Halton-- wasn't Lewis Carroll associated with Daresbury?

[@thomasschmitz3765]

This is how you should teach wisdom - it can't get any better than this. When even the ads at the end are entertaining enough to make up for a video in itself, it's clear that this is one of, if not the, best edutainment (sorry for that word, but as a German, I hope for your understanding) channel on KZbin. Absoulelty brilliant. Please, please, please keep up with it.

[@lildrummerboy5673]

He almost never uploads, but when his people need him he comes through.

[@HarryKaneIsGoated]

Yes

[@mysterious7215]

@Suddenly I don't want to hear voice of Satan

[@kichi_____________6813]

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[@smogmonster1876]

@@lildrummerboy5673 Quality, not quantity.

[@MajesticDemonLord]

You forgot the real reason this was all done: To ensure that in the event of an invasion by Johnny Foreigner, they'd be so confused that they give up and go home.

[@Snowshowslow]

That seems like exactly the kind of wishful thinking that the English have been employing in their relations with foreign nations lately 😉

[@MajesticDemonLord]

@@Snowshowslow it's worked flawlessly since 1066...

[@doger944]

@@Snowshowslow Give it a go, mate

[@adonaiyah2196]

Who is Johnny

[@Bob-bs9ok]

@@adonaiyah2196 Johnny Guitar ofc

[@namenamename390]

2:29 I love this channel because of moments like this. For a gag less that five seconds long, Jay has put on an entire suit with three (?) layers and styled his hair differently, then the rest of the video carries on normally.

[@yuvalne]

There was the time he carried an entire drumset to the set just so he could bah dum tss

[@kichi_____________6813]

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[@evanescent8692]

@just do it ookooooloooooookooookokookokkookklokkllolll

Now you should make videos about Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, since they are DIFFERENT as made clear in the video.

[@kernowpictures2002]

And Cornwall because it is not a county it is it own country unofficially

[@bufferly5595]

Onen hag oll!

[@oisinkinsella8666]

Northern Ireland is just easy tho 6 counties that's it

[@haydenlane-davies4649]

Such a great season of Map Men! Looking forward to the next whenever it comes.

[@airqx2808]

2022-2023 :(

[@blackcat289]

As a foreigner living in the UK, this is both fascinating and horrifying. Love your vids, guys!

[@adonaiyah2196]

Where are you from

[@craft31755]

Can I ask which county? I'm in Worcestershire :P

[@jamaphy8621]

@@craft31755 I’m in Devon :p

[@prcxiale1124]

@@jamaphy8621 im in t' famed YORKSHIRE

[@Asidders]

Horrifying?

[@romulusnr]

"in general, not much of a monkey's is given" *Cornwall has entered the chat*

[@conormurphy4328]

They’re just angry that they still have webbed feet

[@thereptilianoverlord1346]

Northumberland has also entered the chat

[@wanderingronin6462]

yeah I agree ahaha I'm literally a Devonian Ultranationalist

[@Smoneey]

The fact that we’re a duchy just complicates things more

[@werty21100]

@@thereptilianoverlord1346 correction it’s Northumbria that’s entered the chat

[@BMH1965]

I was born in The West Riding of Yorkshire, went to my first school in The East Riding, which then some politicians claim became part of Humberside in my third year, and then East Yorkshire - I only moved down t'road! Now live in ancestral home of 'The Ridings'.

[@NashBasNicholaiandGeorge192]

the fact that the subtitles are accented really goes to show the effort put into these videos

[@variousthings6470]

Great, now I'm gonna have to watch it all again with the subtitles on.

[@_JohnDoe]

What do you mean?

[@kichi_____________6813]

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[@macronencer]

IDEA: If you haven't done it before, I'd love to see a video investigating the problem of online maps changing their place labels at different zoom levels. Sometimes I'll look for a town and be unable to find it because at almost every zoom level it's showing me some inconsequential suburb's name but not the name of the town. I've no idea why this issue persists, and I'd love to see some BTS investigation.

[@eekee6034]

You and me both!

[@ms.antithesis]

tbf people where im from always get annoyed because on the zoomed out version of most maps, our slightly bigger rival city gets put on as the main town in the area instead of us, despite us having wayy more historical significance, and just being the better city.

[@Somnogenesis]

I read the start of this comment as "IKEA:" at first. And thought, "Yeah, now there's a place that really _needs_ a map".

[@AsinineComment]

According to a particular strain of conspiracy theorist, my local area doesn't exist either. It's probably better to call it my _country_ - Australia.

[@claireskrine4837]

Or.....road names - I'll be looking for the A501 and suddenly there's this road called Marylebone Road and the A501 has disappeared.....or a friend tells me to meet them on Marylebone Road and all I can see is a massive A road with a load of B roads hanging off it.

[@akshhat]

Every time Jay uploads another Map Men, I get excited to see how many 'men's he decided to include in the opening song.

[@vgb36]

One day it's going to be "mappity mappity mennity mennity" and i will die of happiness

[@fenestrapain]

I’m still waiting for a maps only map men song. Map map, map map, map map MAP (map map).

[@AleksandrShtifanov]

I don't even live in england, i have no idea about the counties in UK, but i so love to watch these guys! Every time after a hard work day when i see Map Men on youtube suggestions, i begin singing its song and decide that it is exactly what i need right now! :)

[@amyhatch3761]

As someone who grew up in greater Manchester, I can tell you that there a lot of people who don't like their hometown being considered part of Manchester, especially the ones on the Lancashire and West Yorkshire border. There are towns in greater Manchester where people fly Yorkshire flags from their windows 👀

[@Inkyminkyzizwoz]

I live on the Wirral and I hate it when people insist that we're still part of Cheshire and refuse to acknowledge the existence of Merseyside. Similarly, there are people in Southport that insist that they should be in Lancashire (until you remind them that being in Merseyside means they can use their travel passes to take the train into Liverpool!)

[@ipso9141]

Blooming flag wavers 🦆😁

[@ianatpr]

I spent years living in 'Altrincham, Cheshire' with a Warrington, Cheshire, postcode - but we clearly had Trafford Council logos on our bins and belonged in Greater Manchester. 40 odd years of not being Cheshire wasn't about to stop us though.

[@andrewtaylor5984]

@@Inkyminkyzizwoz Both Southport and Liverpool are historically in Lancashire, but people do not realise that the Local Government reorganisation of 1974 was not supposed to alter the historic counties. The correct name, which is rarely, if ever used, should be Local Authority Area.

[@andrewtaylor5984]

@@ianatpr Warrington is properly in Lancashire, but politicians put it into Cheshire for reasons unknown. The Mersey is the proper boundary, so it is fair to say that Warrington's southern suburbs belonged to Cheshire. Central Warrington is, however, north of the Mersey. When Local Government came into being in 1889, it was a rule that no town could be administered by more than one county, so Warrington's southern suburbs became Lancashire. 1974 Local Government reorganisation was not supposed to alter the historic counties, and maps were supposed to show the old boundaries, not the new. Unfortunately, cartographers have ignored this rule. Postcode areas are not county-based, and never have been. They are based on Post Office Administrative Areas.

[@DoinItforNewCommTech]

"Named after the Rutles" I bloody love the visual gags you guys put in these videos. Always worth the pause.

[@BenCol]

A great band - truly a musical legend that will last a lunchtime.

[@goodclover]

There's actually **two** East Riding of Yorkshires. One with Hull ("ceremonial"), and one exactly the the same but with Hull removed ("administrative") as they don't like the country they're (not) inside and wanted to rule themselves. Even confusinger, the postal town of many villages in East Riding, but near Hull is "Hull", despite it being a seperate thing. And then there's a supposed "East Yorkshire" (no riding) that groups the non-Hull East Riding and Hull into one thing. 😅

[@PiousMoltar]

This is the case for most counties. Were you watching the video?

[@isaactimmins8959]

meanwhile if you need the police or fire brigade they're still branded for Humberside, although if my house was on fire the county may be the least of worries,

[@nissa7737]

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[@Axys_0_Rex]

Feckin Hull

[@oliverraven]

All of which are different from the 'Yorkshire East' parliamentary constituency, which just to add to the confusion only contains part of the East Riding (and none of Hull).

[@PformerY23]

This has now become my go-to reference when trying to explain counties. Funny, succinct, and surprisingly accurate. A big thumbs up from me 👍

[@DerringerHK]

Sheriff comes from "shire reeve". Reeve's were chief magistrates in the Anglo-Saxon days of Britain who essentially policed each county, hence the current meaning of the word "Sheriff".

[@darrenhirst9900]

Sherriff's coming hide the duty free 😂

[@WardyLion]

Mark’s deep-seated hatred for Rutland rises to the surface once more. What did Rutland do to make him this way?

[@frederickoftheartic2209]

Probably had a ex girlfriend from Rutland

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

It's more about how Rutland hasn't done anything at all.

[@Meevious]

Competing musical talent.

[@twistedtachyon5877]

@@frederickoftheartic2209 nah. That would require there being someone from rutland.

[@FelixMeister]

Exist

[@MrMeme-wow]

The song omits the Isle of Wight which has politically been its own separate county since 1890. The confusion possibly arises because it took until 1974 for its Governor to become a Lord Lieutenant and to stop haring Hampshire's but that was a mere ceremonial issue. Adding a useless fact: although the island count is officially only one spare mile larger than the smallest county Rutland, at high tide it is definitely smaller.

[@thesunwillneverset]

What do you mean? The Isle of Wight is definitely part of Hampshire and anyone who says it isn't is a dirty separatist! /j

[@thesunwillneverset]

Also the song is including the historic counties (as arbitrarily defined by the government), meaning it *is* actually covered by Hampshire for the purposes of the song.

[@isaactimmins8959]

@@thesunwillneverset although like many counties resources are shared like the police force,

[@thesunwillneverset]

@@isaactimmins8959 True. Including the air ambulance service as another example.

[@isaactimmins8959]

@@thesunwillneverset well many counties share an air ambulance including the Isle of Wright that works with the neighbouring themes Valley service.

[@tobeytransport2802]

7:08 the City of London is a ceremonial county, but it’s not a (non metropolitan or metropolitan) county for administrative purposes and acts like a weird version of a London borough, with the addition of having its own police.

[@GinervaWeasleyPotter]

Coventry might have all the shops, but it hasn’t been a part of Warwickshire since 1451 when it became a county in its own right. That’s why it awkwardly had to be put in the West Midlands for postal reasons in recent years because it refused to go back on this separation from Warwickshire, even though it’s slap bang in the middle of it.

[@nottmjas]

Sorry but you are wrong. Cov stopped being a separate county in 1843 when it was reannexed by Warwickshire. It became a County Borough in 1889 but still joined with Warwickshire for certain minor functions such as the lord lieutenantcy. In 1974 it become a metropolitan district and transferred into the West Midlands.

[@GinervaWeasleyPotter]

@@nottmjas not wrong, just incomplete. Thank you for completing that information for me 😊 you’re a mapman and a scholar

[@D4n1t0o]

@@nottmjas Is it true this was done by Thatcher for class separation reasons?

[@nottmjas]

@@D4n1t0o she can't be blamed for this as she came into power in 1979. But interestingly enough, I read that tge Tories in Warwickshire were secretly delighted that Coventry was being transferred to the West Midlands as this removed a pocket of Labour leaning voters from their mists.

[@nottmjas]

@@D4n1t0o it should become a separate city and county, just like Bristol.

[@richbuilds_com]

This is, by a county mile, THE *BEST* episode of the excellent map men, ever, in the history of time. ~ signed an unbiased Yorkshireman.

[@Pieter31]

It was really good and I don't even care about the topic all that much. ~ signed a random Dutchman

[@PiousMoltar]

"county mile" Hehe

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

No such thing as an unbiased Yorkshireman.

[@nissa7737]

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[@richbuilds_com]

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 We've got a lot to be unbiased about ;-)

[@You]

"Hey pesto!" The uke's fixed! And Jay got his yearly haircut.

[@mbak7801]

Pesto. Olive oil, bay leaves and pine nuts crushed together into a paste. Usually ate with pasta. Hmmm. Nope still do not understand the comment.

[@kane2742]

@@mbak7801 Basil leaves, not bay leaves, are more traditional. Also, the comment above is referring to 9:06 in the video, when the sock puppet says "Hey pesto!" instead of the more common "Hey presto!"

[@wanderingronin6462]

*presto mate

[@ArgenYargen]

@@mbak7801 usually eaten with pasta. If you’re going to be pedantic at least be right.

[@RankinMsP]

​@@mbak7801don't forget the garlic and sea salt.

[@AnthemsOfEurope]

1 Poland ⬇️ 16 Voivodeships ⬇️ 66 Autonomic Cities (18 Voivodeship Cities) 314 Powiats ⬇️ 302 urban counties 652 urban-rural counties 1523 rural counties

[@cheeseburgermonkey7104]

That's a lot of counties

[@AnthemsOfEurope]

@@cheeseburgermonkey7104 after a year of thought, I think those might be better translated as municipalities

[@keelanmurphy9941]

I was SO RELIEVED when the county song came on at the end. Had me very upset at Mark for a moment.

[@Hrafnskald]

1:27 "We're not taking Citation Needed for an answer". Tom Scott and Company have entered the chat room...along with Spiffing Brit and most of Yorkshire Tea's monthly alotment :)

[@strasbourgthemighty6995]

I love that you played postman Pat's song in the background while talking about postal stuff.

[@albasapri3265]

How did I miss that! Brilliant :D

[@gamermapper]

Lol French flag. I wanted to say that the French régions are kinda similar to counties. The historic regions still exist but modern administrative divisions are completely different (Nantes isn't in Britanny, Occitania should've been all of southern France and not just the southwest). And on top of that in 2015 they've changed administrative divisions once again, forcefully uniting Germanic Alsace with ethnic French Champagne (which is horrible!) And on top of that, even the historic cultural regions aren't completely the same as ethnic regions, for example in Alsace there's a small place with a French dialect and not a German one (In the Pays Welche they speak a romance Lorrain dialect).

[@SebastianMBL]

Plus, the fictional town of greendale is supposed to be placed in yorkshire.... fantastic stuff ill say. and yes i looked that up. Im from denmark, where postman pat, is famously known as Postman Per... so i recognised it instantly.

[@beth12svist]

But as a Czech, I have yet to figure out why they play Dvořák's New World Symphony for Yorkshire.

[@jamesmichaelmcdermot]

@@beth12svist there’s a brand of bread which used to use a nice theme from the New World in its ads!

[@wombathead87]

Im an Australian bloke with two grandparents from yorkshire.. was talking to my nan who's still alive and was telling me about her time in England before she got on a ship and came to Australia. It's truly fascinating my roots. G'day to all you Yorkshire people.

[@thereader6667]

we have relatives who live off grid in Alice Springs, they come over to Yorkshire every 2 or 3 years and just wonder at how green it is everywhere, it genuinely shocks them. They travel all that way to be blown away by some fields/moors and its always very amusing, Pop on over to Yorkshire sometime for an english pale ale and a game of cricket, you will be very welcome

[@Edward_Hughes]

Greater Manchester was originally to be called "Selnec" (South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire). This was actually used as the name of the transport authority for several years.

[@jozigirl7114]

Greater Manchester should never have come into being - no one there wants it

[@John-se3fm]

@@jozigirl7114 wigan being part of greater manchester is a a joke, its miles out

[@blotski]

@@jozigirl7114 Well, no-one might be a bit of an exaggeration. I live in north Manchester and the closer you get to Bury the more Lancashire it feels but I wouldn't say the average Manc thinks of themselves as being Lancashire. Or do they? I've lived here for 40 years and never heard anyone talk about it.

[@jozigirl7114]

@@blotski so you don't mind paying extra taxes to pay Andy Burnham his £110k salary as "mayor" of "Greater Manchester"? GM is now a "county" - which other county has a mayor? Nobody talks about it as, just like with the Clean Air Zone, none of us were consulted. The majority of Stopfordians do not want to be part of GM - they want to be part of Cheshire. Bury along with its history will soon be erased as it ceases to be anything other than a district with a token town centre

[@CountryballClub69420]

@@jozigirl7114 its the best county they should make it bigger by adding the high peaks and st helens and Warrington

[@CyborusYT]

"But we're not taking Citation Needed for an answer" subtle jab at the Technical Difficulties (who are mostly from Yorkshire)

[@ArtyFartyBart]

Mystery biscuits

[@TheTfrules]

@@ArtyFartyBart oh yeah

[@dysr]

Poor Tom being stuck with the inferior Nottinghamshire.

[@barnabyhands7723]

I live in Norfolk and recently there's been a Norfolk Day introduced and you see more Norfolk flags flying about. There seems to be a sharp division of counties like ours (and others like Yorkshire etc) which are proud of their distinct identities, and those where it doesn't seem to matter.

[@FrogSkull]

While it's true that some counties have more distinct identities, it strikes me that 'nobody cares about their county' is a very Londoner take. Most people in the country and small towns will identify much more closely with their county than those from industrial cities. Also people who care about cricket.

[@simonh6371]

They seem to have projected their SE England / Londoncentric perspective on the rest of us. Londoners and people from surrounding counties except for Essex and Kent to some extent don't give a toss. Same as people from big cities in the rest of the country like Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle. But outside of those cesspits people do very much care about and and identify with their counties. I'm a Shropshire lad through and through.

[@paulwild3676]

@@simonh6371 That’s all you’ve got. Those cesspits as you call them are ironically in the great counties, Liverpool and Manchester were in Lancashire and London wholly in Middlesex. People think that a place is more special because it is rural. It isn’t. Wealth came from grime, not cream teas and church fetes.

[@simonh6371]

@@paulwild3676 ''Were'' being the operative word, they are no longer in those counties but in artificial metropolitan counties created fairly recently. Wealth came from grime, but not for those who got grimy. Plus people in the counties got grimy shovelling horsemuck or mining coal, cream teas and church fetes were only for the wealthy.

[@bluiska1]

More Map Men episodes please!!!

[@justapak_]

jay said on the community posts that map men will come back at the start of 2023

[@ElecV]

Its always so great - you can feel the effort they put in every video. A high count of gags, jokes, puns and references in british humor style, some that are clearly visible and others you almost missed the first time you watch the whole video. Always perfect timings, emotions, voice acting, sounds and editing.

[@GryphLane]

As a resident of Nottinghamshire I appreciated the "where's Derbyshire?" joke

[@DanS044]

I felt exactly the same!

[@liamw6562]

I live in Leicestershire and I’m still not sure where it is

[@YoloMenace001]

Same lol.

[@christopheroddy2373]

As a Leicestershire resident, I can agree. Always a first time I guess :D

[@connor3463]

as a Derbyshire resident, I can agree that no one knows we exist.

[@Dirkus17]

I hope Jay’s county and county town song exists in full somewhere. * waited until the end. Was rewarded.

[@AgentWaltonSimons]

Of course you know it's going to end up like the underground stations song - people'll always be insisting he has missed one.

[@skasperl]

Exactly this. I wrote a tweet, came to the comments before sending it, read the first comment and knew I could delete my tweet.

[@Dayvit78]

Thank you for this comment.

[@Codraroll]

@@AgentWaltonSimons I tried making a transcript and used Wikipedia's list to see if I got the spelling right. I can't make sense of the list, so it's somewhat impossible to tell whether he has missed any. There are 39 counties listed in the song, as far as I can tell, but I'm not sure what number to compare it to. Oh, and in case you want to look up the transcript and my comment is buried, I might as well copy it: Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, and Warwickshire, Northamptonshire is next door, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Lincolnshire, Huntingdonshire and there's more, like Suffolk and Essex and Surrey and Sussex and Nottinghamshire in the center, Devon and Cornwall and Dorset and Somerset, Kent, and what comes after Kent? Er-, Westmorland, Cumberland, also Northumberland and County Durham below, There's Lancashire, Gloucestershire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Eleven more counties to go! Shropshire and Staffordshire, Berkshire and Hampshire, and Herefordshire, next to Wales, there's Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Worcestershire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire with all of the dales, And Buckinghamshire's the end of the list, There's no need to sing any more, 'Cause we're not doing Scotland or Wales or new ones invented in nineteen seventy-four!

[@AgentWaltonSimons]

@@Codraroll Those are indeed all 39 of the historic counties of England: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_counties_of_England#List_of_counties for the reference list.

[@olenilsen4660]

Thanks for finally clearing this up! I´ve been trying to get better at geography, and the UK always leaves me a bit puzzled. This will end now, thanks to you guys! :)

[@davidmoore1253]

6:52 I love the occasional Whacky Wheels music in Map Men episodes. And Count Duckula's appearance reminds me of the time I spent half an hour trying to identify the French song at the end of one episode, only to find it was the Count Duckula song.

[@timothyoliver8606]

As someone who absolutely loves teaching English local government to his poor benighted students - thank you very much for this, it's excellent!

[@MrCrazyeyes07]

Don’t forget that between 1542 and 1972 everyone was confused over whether Monmouthshire was part of Wales or England.

[@dcarbs2979]

Considering England took over Wales in 1349, it didn't really matter :-)

[@vladimirlenin8917]

It's a weird bit of confusion considering that the Laws in Wales Acts fully annexed all of Wales to England, meaning there was supposed to be no administrative difference between being "in Wales" vs "in England", because being in Wales meant you were in England. I guess the only time it really mattered was when they fully defined Wales as legally its own thing in the 1970s, which included Monmouthshire on the basis that it had been counted as one of the counties of Wales in the 1535 Laws in Wales Act, among other reasons.

[@thomasellis445]

@@vladimirlenin8917 Sunday closing act 1881 repealed the annexation of Wales and identified it as a separate entity

[@vladimirlenin8917]

@@thomasellis445 Sort of but not really though. It acknowledged that Wales existed, as did some other laws in the following decades, but did not give it the legal distinction of being fully separate from England. It also did not apply to Monmouthshire, which makes it clear that, until 1972, laws applying only to Wales just ad hoc decided whether they thought Monmouthshire counted as part of Wales.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Sort of like Berwick-upon-Tweed.

[@CplBurdenR]

I used to work at a power company in the "Address Maintenance" section, which was essentially going through an enormous and badly formatted database and making sense of addresses that the National Grid said were wrong. This video and the whole business with 1974 does explain why I kept encountering "Cleveland" and "Humberside" although, I am still baffled at "Perthshire", a Scottish county which I believe has not existed since 1932. How and why someone's address had a county listed that had (at the time I worked there) not be used for eighty years is beyond me.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

The county councils of Perthshire and Kinross-shire merged in 1932 though legally they remained seperate counties until 1975. The post office or Royal Mail never recognised the new regions and Islands Areas of Scotland created in 1975 and largely kept to the old system. Since the 1990s though the Royal Mail has officially discoursged the use of counties in addresses.

[@CplBurdenR]

@@pedanticradiator1491 Ah, I see. So, "*just* a 40 year discrepancy rather than a 80 year one. Only slightly less embarrassing for the power company I worked for?

[@andrewtaylor5984]

Perthshire does exist and was never abolished!

[@andrewtaylor5984]

​@@pedanticradiator1491In the Civil Service we were always instructed to include the county in the address, unless it was a "large town", or one which had the same name as the county, and a few others which politicians moved from one county to another in 1974. I retired in 2012 and we never had a directive to omit the county name, except as above.

[@pedanticradiator1491]

@@andrewtaylor5984 fair enough but I can remember reading something about the Royal Mail saying that as long as there is a postcode you don't need the county pius they do not mind which county name you use

[@citizenwolf8720]

Counties in Ireland are still regarded as very important by their inhabitants. Fights are still fought every weekend between rival counties. There's even an annual All-Ireland fight, which includes the counties in Northern Ireland.

[@raymonderrity1419]

@Harry Chown Dublin isn't even 1 county. It was broken up into 4 counties in 1994 because of how big it had gotten. The City is just 1 of 4 counties of Dublin

[@MacGuy3135]

And then there’s Bristol. Which wasn’t a historic doomsday county, it was part of Gloucestershire, but it was the first city to gain county status in the 1300s. It then continued as a county until losing it in 1974. This was greatly disliked so Avon was split up into Bristol again and south Gloucestershire, bast and north east Somerset and north west Somerset in 1990s which is a bit of a mess. Now we just call that messy area the “west of England” despite it not being all that west when compared to Cornwall. Avon is still the name of the fire department (same with Hereford and Worcester) so now we have an absolute meme where we are from Bristol, south Gloucestershire, Avon and the west of England all at the same time.

[@LuisAldamiz]

Worry not, Cornwall is Brittany, which is not France.

[@SereneAncalime]

You also forgot that bristol city is managed by bristol city council but also most of north Bristol is by south Gloucestershire council. And then arguing between the two as to where to place a stadium in Bristol

[@jonathanrichards593]

There's an organisation here in S. Glos [1] which locates itself (for some purposes) as part of CUBA. The Counties that Used to Be Avon. :) The MapMen did not expound on the slightly weird *abbreviations* of county names - Glos is for Gloucestershire, obvs, !!

[@stevethomas5849]

It was half heartily done when reorganising local government. What should of happened Bristol retains its borders, North of the city returned to Gloucestershire with the District Council Sth Cotswold not the Mickey Mouse Council Sth Gloucestershire. The Staple Hill Division of Gloucestershire Constabulary reinstated. On the Somerset side of the river border. North East Somerset and North Somerset return to Somerset County Council Taunton . Bath City Council ( Somerset) is back. The Constabulary will Bristol and Somerset better representation of the people.

[@jasonlee3247]

@@SereneAncalime I lived at Frenchay hospital for a while 25 years ago and I remember the South Gloucestershire sign as you drove up towards Frenchay from the city centre.

[@MorDreadful]

The English: "Makes sense" Rest of the world: "You lost us in the first 10 seconds". As for Tyne and Wear, though used on websites etc, County Durham can still be used instead of Tyne and Wear for post and some will still refer to sunderland as part of County Durham, they also actually messed up the postcodes in some strange way. The language used was the confusing Wearside language now a dead language I believe.

[@BosieYouTube]

Washington (used to be part of County Durham) is now part of Sunderland, but has Newcastle post codes.

[@Shinx990]

Anyone in Northumberland: "Eh?"

[@morning_dew922]

My husband is from Boro and I had to research what his postal address was supposed to be at the time in order to send him something on the mail as we weren't sure. It seems it was Cleveland but now it is Yorkshire. It's still Cleveland for the Police though. I don't really get it , to be honest.

[@TremereTT]

@@BosieKZbin and @morning_dew And now UK gets to use the imperial system units for products again too! Driving on the left, using imperial, having several different systems to write a fully qualified adress, beeing ruled by Sirs, Ladies and Faeries. And no one in the UK thinks something is a bit off.

[@artofthepossible7329]

@@TremereTT As overhauling the UK is effectively impossible (and certainly impracticable), history has found multiple methods of staying in the present.

[@bethanybrookes8479]

because of what happened in 1972, by grandparents grew up, got married and gave birth to my dad in Lancashire, raised my dad in Cheshire, then my grandad died in Lancashire. all without moving house since the 1960s

[@baalrog887]

"isn't that only for nerds?" I think you may be unaware of your target audience here lads

[@donaloflynn]

Not really. When a KZbin video is getting over a million views in a single month, its audience is naturally going to be diverse.

[@luke_cohen1]

@@donaloflynn There are a lot more nerds than you think due to the Digital Revolution, depending on your definition of what a nerd is. The old definition doesn't work anymore since everyone uses computers and plays video games while comics and superheroes are seen as geek culture (a group nerds are increasingly disowning due to toxic behavior). Plus, there's 67 MILLION people in Great Britain. That's more than enough for a million nerds.

[@beth12svist]

Especially because this is definitely watched by people not in Britain, such as me. There's your diversity of the audience, I guess.

[@mikegaynor7222]

I can’t listen to that intro without hearing Limmy going “UP T BLOODY TREH”

[@BeardyGit89]

You can just say tree

[@junkscience6397]

@@BeardyGit89 Yes. But Limmy cannot, apparently.

[@BeardyGit89]

@@junkscience6397 my point is that he does. He doesn't say treh.

[@moosicisthegood]

@@BeardyGit89 'I dinnae sey tren, I say trein!'

[@BeardyGit89]

@@moosicisthegood exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about ha

[@Jason-Clark235]

2:11 personal time stamp

[@PalkkiTT]

It is not personal anymore.

[@Jwenzyy]

tehehehehe

[@davidstevens.7875]

Faint.

[@King_of_Cards]

i love their cheeky laugh

[@12345.......]

So many soundbites in every video

[@revinhatol]

6:34 FUN FACT: The former county of Avon was more often seen as "Greater Bristol" much like Greater London.

[@it_was_my_cat]

And then you have Buckinghamshire, where the county town... isn't Buckingham...

[@turmuthoer]

Wiltshire is even crazier. At least Buckingham remained the county town until the 1500s (and is still relatively important). Wilton, a small town of barely 3,500 people, lost the title to Salisbury almost 1,000 years ago and even then it had already long been eclipsed in importance. Wilton hasn't been undisputed administrative and commercial centre of the county since the days of Alfred the Great!

[@SimplemindedGamers]

@@turmuthoer And of course Berkshire, where all of the inhabitants are Berks

[@dougaltolan3017]

@@SimplemindedGamers Acording to QI, "berk" is a swear word, rhyming slang for Berkshire hunt.

[@TP-mv6en]

It used to be though

[@delphipascal]

Instead we have a great big shit heap as the county town

[@jonahunger]

having just moved to Scotland from the USA for school, I'm re-watching these videos with an entirely different perspective. If you ever come up to Dundee, I'll treat for coffee or drinks

[@coyotelong4349]

As a fellow Yank longing to move to the UK I envy you. Have a pint for me 🍻

[@BanananaLeaf]

4:12 I love that they used the postman pat theme song when they were taking about mail

[@ltlegend157]

4:17 postman pat

[@LedFloyd333]

I didn't know that Rutland is back. Maybe we'll get new series of "Rutland Weekend Television" with Eric Idle.

[@EthanfromEngland-]

ofc, Rutland for many never left. Thats the issue with counties. Some people VERY much care. Others dont. I for one VERY much care.

[@Rafaelinux]

He just stands there?

[@Ghiaman1334]

Careful: you'll enrage Mark

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@EthanfromEngland- Rutland always comes back.

[@spejic1]

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more! Consign their parts most private to a Rutland tree!" Now I get it. Thanks, Map Men.

[@AngryAnt0]

It gets even more messy with Humberside as while East Riding is back, a lot of the facilities still come under Humberside up here, Police for example. I still hear people complain about the term, saying how Beverley or Bridlington is nowhere near the "ruddy" Humber. ... Im just still getting over Avon going.

[@mclew1234]

Plus Durham still has Cleveland police force

[@Eurobrasil550]

It certainly is 'messy'! , Humberside never seemed to be very popular, The postal address was 'North Humberside' or 'South Humberside' while it existed, but there was only ever an actual 'Humberside' County. At least the part of the county south of the river didn't stretch as far away from the actual River Humber as the Northern parts did. The Southern part of Humberside the former Lindsey part of pre 1974 Lincolnshire, when Humberside was dispanded then became two different counties North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire! So Lincolnshire Police are responsible for Lincolnshire, ( as you would expect), but not North or North East Lincolnshire, which come under Humberside Police. So you now have a Lincolnshire /North Lincolnshire /North East Lincolnshire tripoint, In a field by the A180 road, Not far from the Village of Ulceby.

[@flan_fan1234]

By the way, Wilton isn't the current county town of Wiltshire, it got changed to Trowbridge in 1889

[@iloveindomienoodle]

But then it needs to be named as "Trowshire" not Wiltshire

[@stalfithrildi5366]

@@iloveindomienoodle love to live in Barnsleyshire

[@patrickchampion8179]

It's only Trowbridge because of a weird compromise. Swindon and Salisbury both wanted to be the county town, and at the time the two were both much bigger than everywhere else in the county. But the train journey between the two was too difficult so they decided to go for an option that wasn't too hard to get to from either. I believe Devizes was considered (being closer to the centre of the county) but its train service was so bad that no-one could be bothered to go there...

[@wombleking]

The county town of Hampshire was Southampton but is now Winchester. Southampton is a County Borough (as of 1888). So maybe Hampshire should be Wintonshire?

[@beetooex]

If Henry VIII hadn't have been so randy the county town of Buckinghamshire would still be Buckingham...

[@12345.......]

6:51 that is a mouthful in 20 seconds. Love you Mark.

[@CheesiusCaesar69]

I am a Maltese, when I was six and i would have Yorkshire Puddings not only did i think they were spelled, Yowksher Puddings, but also even when I learned the real spelling it wasnt until a HOI4 game when I found out Yorkshire was actually a real place, and why they are called Yorkshire Puddings

[@ST-cb9qy]

So what do you think we thought of Maltesers??

[@jonathanrichards593]

@@ST-cb9qy You guys set that one up between you, didn't you. Well done.

[@ST-cb9qy]

@@jonathanrichards593 Ha ha, could have done couldn't we? - not wishing to make a Maltese Cross (as they say) but have to confess Maltesers were one of the few sweets I disliked in childhood - something about that blend of malty taste and sickly-sweet milk choc that somehow didn't cut it. Re Yorkshire puddings, the late lamented Philip Harben (TV chef so long ago I'm showing my not inconsiderable age) did the best account I've heard of how it originated in poor families to fill up the kids so they'd have less appetite for the costly meat to follow. Wonder if that PH prog still exists somewhere in the ether or was destroyed like so much early TV output?

[@JustWilson]

Glad to see our delicacy has spread to Malta. We hand feed our women them in bed because they’re actually an aphrodisiac. YORKSHIIRE!!

[@drey8]

@@ST-cb9qy you didn't like Maltesers as a kid?? What's wrong with you man - get your head checked.

[@eoinh]

1:53 Can't believe King Æthelstan invented the first county system all by himself before dying at the age of three

[@christinae30]

They grew up so fast in those days! But, the three years under his name is his period of being the anglosaxon king

[@eoinh]

@@christinae30 When you put it like that it becomes very obvious that's what it meant lol. Thanks for that clarification!

[@amandang2357]

@Ingvild O 1851 years lifespan?

[@titip1995]

After some digging it seems to be the dates for his reign as King of the Anglo-Saxons (before becoming King of England from 927 up till his death in 939.) Thanks wikipedia :P

[@lmlmd2714]

A smart cookie, that Æthelstan - head of the class in kindy

[@kojindan]

The Humberside graffiti and sign damage reminded me of all the small towns and villages falling out with Leeds City Council for putting "Welcome to Leeds" signs up. They eventually changed them all.

[@yanmanck1215]

that is brilliant

[@TheCraigy83]

every time i see the graffiti in humberside i thing 'what an absolute waste of paint' . I'd write something very non P C . Gonna look like London soon 🤦‍♂️.

[@treaclelipz]

They still have them around bits of Leeds I'm in. Like in Drighlington (, Bradford, BD postcode) there's a welcome to Leeds sign

[@AlexanderTheEvenGreater]

I read somewhere that the Isle of Wight is actually the smallest English county... but only at high tide. At low tide the island obviously 'expands' very slightly and thus Rutland becomes the smallest county again. But according to some definitions the Isle of Wight is actually a part of Hampshire, so I guess (as usual!) it depends which map you use.

[@PatrickMapper]

Loving the changes of style at the start of the intro Also Tom Scott uploading at the same time is a dream come true

[@jvccr7533]

@Suddenly we'd all find tranquility and peace if you stopped spamming your shit links

[@HarryKaneIsGoated]

Yeah. Tom scott and Map men are both brpthers i think

[@PatrickMapper]

@@HarryKaneIsGoated I don’t think so

[@0LoneTech]

@@jvccr7533 It's a bloody botnet. The only way they'd stop was if KZbin bothered to stop them.

[@GumSkyloard]

@@0LoneTech "The only way they'd stop was if KZbin bothered to stop them." It's KZbin. Unless it somehow becomes a massive problem for them, they won't give a rat's arse.

[@RealisticCookingIRL]

What fascinates me is that in Ireland we very much do have a county system, and everyone's familiar with it (Mostly due to gaelic football and hurling teams). I wonder if the difference is also due to the fact that England has a lot more proper cities with their own identity than Ireland. e.g. Manchester and Liverpool are both in Lancashire, but both have completely different identities. Compare this to Ireland, where we have about half of the major cities in those counties named after the county itself, except in certain cases, e.g. Belfast, Downpatrick, Omagh, Enniskillen, Carrick-on-Shannon, Castlebar, Ennis, Killarney, Clonmel, Naas, Tullamore, Navan, Mullingar. It seems although half of the major cities in other regions are named after the county.

[@zimriel]

I think also you had a long tradition of local kings, so didn't have too many cities besides that slaveport which the Norse imposed upon your east coast. Your kings then figured it was more fun to fight each other for the right to sell slaves to the Norse and, later, the Normans.

[@emjackson2289]

Yorkshire, were it independent, based on the 1972 boundaries, would by my calculation be a self-sufficient State: At least 3 airports, 2 major ports, power-generation, fuel-extraction facilities, farming, a financial centre, strategic materials production, tourism, transport. Not only that, it could be created as the "Republic of Yorkshire" without cutting England in two because there'd be the M6 corridor to the West, open. Now that, even as a Geordie, I'd like to see.

[@interentsink6534]

it would be hilarious

[@spidersfrommarsmaybe2742]

Problem is South and West would be mainly Labour whereas North largely Conservative and East somewhat to the Right of Ghengis Khan. Nice idea, wouldn't work.

[@richardcrossley5581]

@@spidersfrommarsmaybe2742 Would be an interesting parliament.

[@rorynator7567]

I wouldn't could you imagine how annoying they'd be

[@rickr5193]

@@spidersfrommarsmaybe2742 Except Hull is Labour so the east is on the left not on the right :^) Plus Hull started the English civil war by refusing King Charles I access to the weapons stored in the city, Hull is historically parliamentarian and not royalist, even though it's correct name is Kingston Upon Hull. Also, Hull has its own telecoms systems, Kingston Comms (as was) and no BT, so could provide telephone/broadband to the rest of the independent Yorkshire, along with North Sea wind-power generation.

[@RicktheCrofter]

My paternal ancestors are from Yorkshire. (My maternal ancestors are from Cornwall; if they hadn’t all come to America, I wouldn’t exist.) A few years ago we had a salesman from England show up at work. He was astounded that I even knew where Yorkshire was. Some of my ancestors were from Barnsley, where his parents lived.