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How the fuck do English counties work? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does any English person actually understand this shit? Oh yeah this is a ceremonial county, this one's a metropolitan county, oh this one is a ceremonial county and a metropolitan county, but hold on its not a historic county. I mean, a single location seems to be in like at least 5 different locations. Some of them are tied in to some local government, some have seemingly no reason to exist at all?

Say what you will about the US, at least I know where I live. The US does have some confusing shit going on, but I've never experienced anything like this. Every time I try to understand how England works I get "oh yeah no one really understands how it works." There are like 5 different maps all overlapping each other. Does anybody know how this works?

Feel like I'm just staring at like 12 different maps of English divisions going "damn bitch you live like this?"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m guessing ceremonial counties are just so that the nobility which used to own a whole ass county isn’t made to feel bad that the county that their granddad owned has had its borders changed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

yeah pretty much, it seems like ceremonial counties are just the area where the monarch's representative is appointed. Which for some reason is different from the local gov't administrative counties, but is also different from the "historic" counties. Based on what I've read I think this is the case.