| 1 Northumberland 2 Tyne n Wear (see map) *2 City of Newcastle upon Tyne *2 City of Sunderland *2 Gateshead *2 South Tyneside *2 North Tyneside 3 Durham 4 Cumbria 5 Lancashire 6 Blackpool 7 Blackburn with Darwen 8 West Yorkshire (see map) *8 City of Leeds *8 City of Bradford *8 City of Wakefield *8 Calderdale *8 Kirklees 9 North Yorkshire 10 Darlington 11 Stockton-on-Tees 12 Middlesbrough 13 Hartlepool 14 Redcar and Cleveland 15 York 16 East Riding of Yorkshire 17 Kingston upon Hull 18 North Lincolnshire | (http://www.apat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Metropolitan_and_non-metropolitan_counties_of_England_2009.png) |
| 19 North East Lincolnshire 20 Lincolnshire 21 Nottinghamshire 22 Nottingham 23 South Yorkshire (see map) *23 City of Sheffield *23 Barnsley *23 Doncaster *23 Rotherham 24 Derbyshire 25 Derby 26 Greater Manchester (see map) *26 City of Manchester *26 City of Salford *26 Bolton *26 Bury *26 Oldham *26 Rochdale *26 Stockport *26 Tameside *26 Trafford *26 Wigan | Tyne & Wear (http://www.apat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Tyne-and-Wear-metropolitan-county-Source-http-enwikipediaorg-wiki-Tyne-and-Wear-3.jpg) |
| 27 Merseyside (see map) *27 City of Liverpool *27 Knowsley *27 St Helens *27 Sefton *27 Wirral 28 Halton 29 Warrington 30 Cheshire West and Chester 31 Cheshire East 32 Shropshire 33 Telford and Wrekin 34 Staffordshire 35 Stoke-on-Trent | West Yorkshire (http://www.apat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/west-yorkshire-map.png) |
| 36 West Midlands (see map) *36 City of Birmingham *36 City of Coventry *36 City of Wolverhampton, *36 Dudley *36 Sandwell *36 Solihull *36 Walsall 37 Warwickshire 38 Leicestershire 39 Leicester 40 Rutland 41 Northamptonshire 42 Peterborough 43 Cambridgeshire 44 Norfolk | South Yorkshire (http://www.apat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/South-Yorkshire-map.png) |
| 45 Suffolk 46 Essex 47 Southend-on-Sea 48 Thurrock 49 Hertfordshire 50 Bedford 51 Central Bedfordshire 52 Luton 53 Milton Keynes 54 Buckinghamshire 55 Oxfordshire 56 Gloucestershire 57 Worcestershire 58 Herefordshire 59 South Gloucestershire 60 Bristol | Greater Manchester (http://www.apat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/GM-map.gif) |
| 61 North Somerset 62 Bath and North East Somerset 63 Wiltshire 64 Swindon 65 Berkshire 66 Medway 67 Kent 68 East Sussex 69 Brighton and Hove 70 West Sussex 71 Surrey 72 Hampshire 73 Southampton 74 Portsmouth 75 Isle of Wight 76 Dorset | Merseyside (http://www.apat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Merseyside-map.jpg) |
77 Poole 78 Bournemouth 79 Somerset 80 Devon 81 Torbay 82 Plymouth 83 Cornwall GL: Greater London (see map) *GL North London *GL South London *GL East London *GL West London *GL Central London | West Midlands (http://www.apat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/West-Midlands-map.jpg) |