Which English county has most borders with others?

[MICKBEL11]

Can anyone tell me which English county has most borders with others?
names of them counties as well would be nice.

Thanks

[petal54]

northamptonshire,8

[DTCwordfan]

Northamptonshire - as the folk who live there want to escape.

[MICKBEL11]

Have been told Northants a few times but i cant find 8 on any map!

[Postdog]

No we don't!

[tonyav]

Why is that DT lol.

[DTCwordfan]

escaping the antics of our gness!

[Postdog]

http://upload.wikimed..._locator_map_2010.svg

[Sqad]

You would be surprised.....drive through it.....a lovely county with attractive houses many built with that "grey stone."

Good cricketing county as well.

[petal54]

googled,I've no idea otherwise

[Postdog]

8 I count. One is inly just mind, a tiny sliver of a border

[ubasses]

Warwickshire Leicestershire Rutland Cambridgeshire Bedfordshire
Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire and Lincolnshire

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.picturesof...and/counties-map.html

[Postdog]

I moved from Essex to there. Not through choice cause I was reluctantly moving but as a place to move to it is lovely

[tonyav]

It is a nice county, I travel through part of Northhants on my way to Santa Pod.

[DTCwordfan]

Lincolnshire
Rutland
Buckinghammshire
Cambridgeshire
Leicstershire
Warwickshire
Bedfordshire
Oxfordshire

[gness]

I see you DT. ;-)

Lovely county.x

[TonyPayne689]

My home county of Gloucestershire also borders eight counties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucestershire confirms Gloucestershire borders Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Bristol, Somersetand and Monmouthshire. Monmouthshire is a Welsh county, but I'd argue the question's a bit ambiguous on this point :o)

There have been a number of boundary changes over the years, and the "historic counties" definition removes Bristol but adds Berkshire. This is shown quite well here http://wikishire.co.uk/map/#/centre=51.785,-2.124/zoom=10

However the "historic counties" definition adds a ninth county to Northamptonshire. This is Huntingdonshire which is now part of Cambridgeshire. See - http://wikishire.co.uk/map/#/centre=52.332,-0.702/zoom=10

[Cribbage]

2 Counties share the distinction of having the largest number of counties bordering them -

A)Northamptonshire
&
B)Cambridgeshire

A) For Northamptonshire:

- Warwickshire
- Leicestershire
- Rutland
- Lincolnshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Bedfordshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Oxfordshire

B) For Cambridgeshire:

- Rutland
- Lincolnshire
- Norfolk
- Suffolk
- Essex
- Hertfordshire
- Bedfordshire
-Northamptonshire

[bankengland36327]

Lincs and Norths both have 8 (Lincs: East Riding, South Y, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamps, Cambridge and Norfolk) (Norths: Lincs, Leicestershire, Rutland, Cambridgeshire, Befordshire, Bucks, Warwickshire and Oxfordshire.) although Cambridge also has 8.