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Revision as of 13:51, 4 January 2004 by 62.64.140.76 (talk) (grammar)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Association of British Counties is a pressure group in the United Kingdom dedicated to preserving the traditional counties Britain.
It believes that the traditional 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 historic county, in additional to cross-referencing this with various other administrative areas, noting alternatives where the correct county is debatable and providing detailed discussion of these instances where they occur. It also seeks to officially change the government terminology to bring it in line with the 1888 Local Government Act - the original piece of leglislation which created the entites currently used for local government. This act called these entities "administrative counties", and the ABC wishes to see this terminology consistently used to describe modern administrative areas, believing that this will greatly help to remove alot of the confusion that has resulted over the status of various entities termed "counties" since 1965 . In particular, it uses scare quotes around the word 'county' when not referring to the traditional counties in order to make a clear distinction between these and the various forms of administrative entity the currently exist.
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
- Changing the terminology used for local government
- Compelling the Ordnance Survey to mark traditional county borders on their maps
- Making the Leuitenency areas (also known as ceremonial counties, although this term has n ever been defined or used in law) match the historic ones
- That the english regions should be tweaked in to order ensure that historic counties 'be brought wholly within one region or another'