My favourite county is Lancashire, it has so much, Liverpool's waterfront and underground trains, Manchester and Salford's trams and skyscrapers, Blackpool's Illuminations and tramway, part of the Lake District, Pendle Hill, the East Lancashire Railway, my home town of Fleetwood, etc, it's magical every time I go back there. In August I had my most recent trip (I might post about it sometime), went round Lancaster, Preston, Blackpool, Manchester and Liverpool and every day was fun.
Ofcourse every county in England is special in it's own way, but I always feel at home in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire and Lincolnshire counties too
Of course I am going to say County Durham.
Pre-1974 boundaries, of course.
The pre-1974 boundaries were never abolished, Durham has always continued to exist in the same geographical setting, just a county council and lieutenancy area of the same name are different smaller area causing Wikipedia to spread mis-information. Best thing in Durham is the Winter Gardens in Sunderland then a trip to the Wilko Cafe.
Rules:
- Not necessarily where you live - or where you go on holiday
- Any current / historical counties are allowed - i.e. Richmondshire / Yorkshire / North Yorkshire
- UK / NI only
Richmondshire is technically not a current or historical county despite being a "shire" (akin to Hallamshire), but it is larger than many of them. Do the rules include County Boroughs? Some places were treated as a county for some administrative purposes despite remaining in their original county, Stockport County is one such example that has some fans.
