# Lieutenancies Act 1997, Paragraph 3 Extent: E+W+S The local government areas (or parts of local government areas) described in each entry in the second column of the following Table shall be regarded for the purposes of this Act as one county to be known by the name specified in the first column. Table County for the purposes of this Act Local government areas Bedfordshire Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Cheshire Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, and, Halton and Warrington Cumbria Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness Derbyshire Derbyshire and Derby Devon Devon, Plymouth and Torbay Dorset Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset Durham Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool and so much of Stockton-on-Tees as lies north of the line for the time being of the centre of the River Tees The East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston upon Hull (City of) East Sussex East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Essex Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock Gloucestershire Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire Hampshire Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton Kent Kent and the Medway Towns Lancashire Lancashire, Blackburn and Blackpool Leicestershire Leicestershire and Leicester Lincolnshire Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire Northamptonshire North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire North Yorkshire North Yorkshire, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, York and so much of Stockton-on-Tees as lies south of the line for the time being of the centre of the River Tees Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Shropshire Shropshire and The Wrekin Somerset Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset. Staffordshire Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Wiltshire Wiltshire and Thamesdown. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/23/schedule/1/paragraph/3 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/lieutenancies-act-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-3 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.