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England changes of 1974 - CCC Chapman County Code
Historic County	Abbrev	CCC	Administration until 1974	Successor Counties
Bedfordshire	Beds	BDF	Bedfordshire Luton	Bedfordshire
Berkshire	Berks	BRK	Berkshire Reading	Berkshire Oxfordshire
Buckinghamshire	Bucks	BKM	Buckinghamshire	Buckinghamshire Berkshire
Cambridgeshire	Cambs	CAM	Cambridgeshire	Cambridgeshire
Cheshire		CHS	Cheshire Birkenhead Chester Stockport Wallasey	Cheshire Greater Manchester Metro Merseyside Metro Derbyshire
Cornwall	Corn	CON	Cornwall	Cornwall
Cumbria		CUL	Cumberland Carlisle	Cumbria
Derbyshire	Derbys	DBY	Derbyshire Derby	Derbyshire
Devon		DEV	Devon Exeter Plymouth Torbay	Devon
Dorset		DOR	Dorset Poole	Dorset
Durham		DUR	Durham Darlington Gateshead Hartlepool South Shields Sunderland Teesside West Hartlepool	County Durham Tyne and Wear Metro Cleveland
Essex		ESS	Essex East Ham Southend West Ham	Essex Greater London
Gloucestershire	Glos	GLS	Gloucestershire Bristol Gloucester	Gloucestershire Avon
Hampshire  Originally Hantshaving	Hants	HAM	Hampshire Bournemouth Portsmouth Southampton	Hampshire Dorset
			Isle of Wight	Isle of Wight
Herefordshire		HEF	Herefordshire	Hereford and Worcester
Hertfordshire	Herts	HRT	Hertfordshire	Hertfordshire Greater London
Huntingdonshire	Hunts	HUN	Huntingdonshire & Peterborough	Cambridgeshire
Kent		KEN	Kent Canterbury	Kent Greater London
Lancashire	Lancs	LAN	Lancashire Barrow-in-Furness Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Burnley Bury Liverpool Manchester Oldham Preston Rochdale St Helens Salford Southport Warrington Wigan	Lancashire Greater Manchester Metro Merseyside Metro Cheshire Cumbria
Leicestershire	Leics	LEI	Leicestershire Leicester	Leicestershire
Lincolnshire	Lincs	LIN	Lincolnshire (Holland)	Lincolnshire
			Lincolnshire (Kesteven)	Lincolnshire
			Lincolnshire (Lindsey) Grimsby Lincoln	Lincolnshire Humberside
London		LND	London	Greater London
Middlesex	Middx	MDX	Middlesex	Greater London
Norfolk		NFK	Norfolk Norwich Yarmouth	Norfolk
Northamptonshire	Northants	NTH	Northamptonshire Northampton	Northamptonshire
Northumberland	Northumb	NBL	Northumberland Berwick-upon-Tweed Newcastle-upon-Tyne Tynemouth	Northumberland Tyne and Wear Metro
Nottinghamshire	Notts	NTT	Nottinghamshire Nottingham	Nottinghamshire South Yorkshire Metro
Oxfordshire Latin Oxonia	Oxon	OXF	Oxfordshire Oxford	Oxfordshire
Rutland		RUT	Rutland	Leicestershire
Shropshire Sloppesberie	Salop	SAL	Shropshire	Shropshire
Somerset		SOM	Somerset Bath Bristol	Somerset Avon
Staffordshire	Staffs	STS	Staffordshire Burton-upon-Trent Dudley Stoke-on-Trent Walsall West Bromwich Wolverhampton	Staffordshire West Midlands Metro
Suffolk		SFK	Suffolk (East) Ipswich	Suffolk Norfolk
			Suffolk (West)	Suffolk
Surrey		SRY	Surrey Croydon	Surrey West Sussex Greater London
Sussex		SSX	Sussex (East) Brighton Eastbourne Hastings	East Sussex West Sussex
			Sussex (West)	West Sussex
Warwickshire	Warks	WAR	Warwickshire Birmingham Coventry Solihull	Warwickshire West Midlands Metro
Westmorland		WES	Westmorland	Cumbria
Wiltshire	Wilts	WIL	Wiltshire	Wiltshire
Worcestershire	Worcs	WOR	Worcestershire Dudley Warley Worcester	Hereford and Worcester West Midlands Metro
Yorkshire	Yorks	YKS	Yorkshire (East Riding) ERY Kingston-upon-Hull	Humberside North Yorkshire
			Yorkshire (North Riding) NRY Middlesbrough  Teesside	North Yorkshire Cleveland Durham
			Yorkshire (West Riding) WRY Barnsley Bradford Dewsbury Doncaster Halifax Huddersfield Leeds Rotherham Sheffield Wakefield	West Yorkshire Metro Greater Manchester Metro South Yorkshire Metro Cumbria Humberside Lancashire North Yorkshire
			York	North Yorkshire