On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 09:18 +0000, Wittle, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > It is interesting that people often say UK counties are defunct because the > post office no longer use them; you could argue that postal addressing was > not really the purpose of counties in the first place. The point of counties > being more about governmental practices than delivering post. > +1 The historic pre-1974 counties are important in terms of culture and peoples sense of place. Rutland is a good example of how people power and identity can override government ideas.
From experience I know many people in Castle Donington use Leicestershire rather than Derby in their address. And despite being a unitary authority, Telford is very much a part of real peoples Shropshire. The boundary is just a government thing, its just for taxation purposes. Nobody is going to say Ironbridge, Dawley or Wellington are not Shropshire towns. The idea that the old counties are dead is ridiculous, they are an important part of addressing for real people. Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
