Abbreviations : England and Crown Dependencies

Counties in the United Kingdom were reorganised in April 1974 (October 1973 in Northern Ireland and May 1975 in Scotland), resulting in the disappearance of many traditional county names and the changing of administrative boundaries. As a result, some parish records may not be kept at the County Record Office of their original county.

For example, the parish records for Garsdale and Dentdale are kept in the Cumbria County Record Office even though Garsdale and Dentdale were in the county of Yorkshire until 1974. Cumbria itself is a new county, formed from Westmorland, Cumberland and parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire.

* These islands form part of the British Isles but are self-governing and are not part of the United Kingdom.

ALD
Alderney *
AVN
Avon
BDF
Bedfordshire
BKM
Buckinghamshire
BRK
Berkshire
CAM
Cambridgeshire or Cambridgeshire and Ely
CHS
Cheshire
CLV
Cleveland
CMA
Cumbria
CON
Cornwall (including the Isles of Scilly)
CUL
Cumberland
DBY
Derbyshire
DEV
Devon
DOR
Dorset
DUR
Durham (usually referred to as County Durham, the only English county so prefixed)
ESS
Essex
GLS
Gloucestershire
GSY
Guernsey *
GTM
Greater Manchester
HAM
Hampshire
HEF
Herefordshire
HRT
Hertfordshire
HUM
Humberside
HUN
Huntingdonshire or Huntingdon and Peterborough
HWR
Hereford and Worcester
IOA
Isle of Wight
IOM
Isle of Man *
JSY
Jersey *
KEN
Kent
LAN
Lancashire
LEI
Leicestershire
LIN
Lincolnshire
LND
Greater London
MDX
Middlesex
MSY
Merseyside
NBL
Northumberland
NFK
Norfolk
NTH
Northamptonshire
NTT
Nottinghamshire
NYK
North Yorkshire
OXF
Oxfordshire
RUT
Rutland
SAL
Shropshire
SFK
Suffolk
SOM
Somerset
SRK
Sark *
SRY
Surrey
SSX
Sussex
STS
Staffordshire
SXE
East Sussex
SXW
West Sussex
SYK
South Yorkshire
TWR
Tyne and Wear
WAR
Warwickshire
WES
Westmorland
WIL
Wiltshire
WMD
West Midlands
WOR
Worcestershire
WYK
West Yorkshire
YKS
Yorkshire (traditionally split into the East Riding (ERY), the North Riding (NRY), and the West Riding (WRY))

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