On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 08:39, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the UK there are multiple hierarchies of geographic areas, for widely > differing purposes, that frequently (but not always and not necessarily) > share borders. For example Police Regions are based on traditional counties > (which are not "administrative") > By "traditional," do you mean the ceremonial counties (aka "lieutenancies") and the Welsh preserved counties? > with lots of anomalies. > Yeah, like Police Scotland. Or the Police Service of Northern Ireland. Or the various forces in Wales, such as Dyfed Powys. Dyfed was formed by amalgamating Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire, was later split back into its component parts (Cardiganshire was renamed Ceredigion in that split), and Dyfed is now a preserved county. Then we have communities. Which are the secular replacement for parishes and in most cases parish councils have been replaced by community councils, often with the same name. And then there are health boards/NHS trusts. These are devolved. For example, Hywel Dda University Health Board (Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol) is part of NHS Wales (GIG Cymru). The Welsh health boards are divided into "network clusters", so Hywel Dda has Amman/Gwendraeth, Llanelli, North Ceredigion, North Pembrokeshire, South Ceredigion, South Pembrokeshire and Taf/Tywi. Good luck trying to figure out the boundaries of those. -- Paul
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