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| The '''Association of British Counties''' is a pressure group in the ] dedicated to preserving old county names in |
The '''Association of British Counties''' is a pressure group in the ] dedicated to preserving old county names in Britain. | ||
| It believes that the old counties are part of Britain's cultural heritage and should be preserved. To this end it has produced a postal directory putting British place names in what it considers to be the correct county. It also seeks to call modern counties "administrative counties". In particular, it uses ] around the word 'county' when not referring to the historical counties. | It believes that the old counties are part of Britain's cultural heritage and should be preserved. To this end it has produced a postal directory putting British place names in what it considers to be the correct county. It also seeks to call modern counties "administrative counties". In particular, it uses ] around the word 'county' when not referring to the historical counties. | ||
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| *That the historic counties 'should be brought wholly within one ] or another' | *That the historic counties 'should be brought wholly within one ] or another' | ||
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The Association of British Counties is a pressure group in the United Kingdom dedicated to preserving old county names in Britain.
It believes that the old counties are part of Britain's cultural heritage and should be preserved. To this end it has produced a postal directory putting British place names in what it considers to be the correct county. It also seeks to call modern counties "administrative counties". In particular, it uses scare quotes around the word 'county' when not referring to the historical counties.
The historic Counties of Great Britain are fundamental to our culture. Older than cathedrals, more historic than stately homes, Counties like Lincolnshire, Cornwall, Middlesex, Anglesey and Fife are basic to our life. Their names belong to the ground we tread. They are an indelible part of our history. They are important cultural entities.
Its policies include
- Renaming the terminology used for local government
- Compelling the Ordnance Survey to mark traditional county borders on their maps
- Making the ceremonial counties match the historic ones
- That the historic counties 'should be brought wholly within one region or another'