Counties Without A City

[kopend]

what counties in th euk dont have any cities ?

[jno]

play the game...

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Smeddlesboy/englishwelsh-counties-containing-no-cities

[Svejk]

blimey, thought I'd be good at that. 3/14 ;-(

[Peter Pedant]

Rutland, Darzet before they got Bournemouth
Rutland [ again ] - wigtonshire Cornwall

am I near ?

[Peter Pedant]

oh not really 3 / 14

[Cloverjo]

3/14 too, and I got my own county wrong. Terrible...

[bednobs]

berkshire does not

[ubasses]

7/14

[DTCwordfan]

Peter you are horrendously wrong. Cornwall has a cathedral city in Truro. How very dare you!

[Prudie]

Bournemouth is not a city and no Dorset doesn't have one

[DTCwordfan]

8 for me and I'm ashamed.....good useless info though

[weecalf]

tyrone? ?

[jackthehat]

Northamptonshire

[kopend]

so there are only 2

northamptonshire and dorset ??:?

[237SJ]

According to jno`s link, the counties that don`t have cities are :-
Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, IOW, Surrey, Northants, Rutland, Shropshire, Rutland, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Mid Glamorgan, Northumberland, Powys

[237SJ]

That`s 15 and the quiz said 14 so I might have gone wrong somewhere..

[jackthehat]

Rutland...Rutland......so good they named it twice? :o)

[237SJ]

Ah, you`ve got me there JTH

[DTCwordfan]

Isn't Rutland a massive lake and that's it?

[DTCwordfan]

And what about Scotland and Northern Ireland, they are still part of the UK?

[Obiter]

The list would have been much smaller pre 1974 when metropolitan counties were introduced (another of Heath's brilliant ideas). Northumberland was without a city as Newcastle, which is geographically in Northumberland, was known as the City and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne, a county in its own right.