What is Administrative county?
An '''administrative county''' ''(pronounced: '''add'''-mini-'''stray''''-tive, '''count'''-e)'' was an old way of dividing up the land in a country that was once used in [[England]] and [[Wales]], beginning in [[1888]] and also in [[Ireland]], beginning in [[1898]]. It was used for [[local government]] reasons. They do not exist anymore, except in [[Northern Ireland]] where their old areas are used as the areas for [[Lord Lieutenant|lieutenancy]]. They were also once used in [[Scotland]] for government reasons but they were not real names that the people who lived in an area called it except when talking to the government. They stopped being used in England and Wales in [[1974]], and stopped in [[Scotland]] in [[1975]]. ==Related pages== *[[List of pages about local government in the United Kingdom]] ==Other websites== *[http://www.boundarycommittee.org.uk/ The Boundary Committee for England] *[http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/ The Boundary Committee for Scotland] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070921124603/http://www.bcomm-scotland.gov.uk/ |date=2007-09-21 }} *[http://www.bcomm-wales.gov.uk/ The Boundary Committee for Wales] {{UK-stub}} [[Category:Counties]] [[Category:1880s establishments in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:1970s disestablishments in the United Kingdom]]