# Sheriffs Act 1887, Paragraph Extent: E+W For the purposes of this Act, the counties or parts of counties specified in column (2) of the following Table shall be deemed to form one county known by the name specified in respect of those counties or parts in column (1) of the Table— TABLE (1) (2) 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 and Hartlepool and so much of the county 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 and York and so much of the county of Stockton-on-Tees as lies south of the centre for the time being of the river Tees Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Shropshire Shropshire and The Wrekin Somerset Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset and North West Somerset Staffordshire Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Wiltshire Wiltshire and Thamesdown --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/50-51/55/schedule/2A/paragraph/wrapper1 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sheriffs-act-1887/schedule-2A/paragraph-wrapper1 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.