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What county is Birmingham in?

Victime de la mode

2

Anyone know? xx

Reply 1

kitty_koo

12

west midlands

Reply 2

Chezua

12

we'll split the shame if both of us get it wrong :redface:

i think it's west midlands, yup.

Reply 3

kitty_koo

12

Chezua

we'll split the shame if both of us get it wrong :redface:

i think it's west midlands, yup.

i hope it is west midlands :redface:

lol

Reply 4

SuperDaz

13

Warwickshire?

Reply 5

cheekylittleminx

SuperDaz

Warwickshire

No we're West Midlands...it used to be Warwickshire but then they changed the borders

Reply 6

SuperDaz

13

Aw thats a shame :frown:

I use the cricket counties as a reference and Warwickshire play in Birmingham you see, tres confusant :p:

Reply 7

Vesta

18

West Middlies

Now the real question is - I've lived in London for nearly 14 years now, why don't I know which county London is in?

Reply 8

m90

11

Vesta

Now the real question is - I've lived in London for nearly 14 years now, why don't I know which county London is in?

London is a county. London has boroughs:

City of Westminster
Kensington and Chelsea
Hammersmith and Fulham
Wandsworth
Lambeth
Southwark
Tower Hamlets
Hackney
Islington
Camden
Brent
Ealing
Hounslow
Richmond upon Thames
Kingston upon Thames
Merton
Sutton
Croydon
Bromley
Lewisham
Greenwich
Bexley
Havering
Barking and Dagenham
Redbridge
Newham
Waltham Forest
Haringey
Enfield
Barnet
Harrow
Hillingdon

Birmingham is part of West Midlands. It used to be split across Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire before it changed I think.

Reply 9

Vesta

18

m90

London is a county. London has boroughs:

City of Westminster
Kensington and Chelsea
Hammersmith and Fulham
Wandsworth
Lambeth
Southwark
Tower Hamlets
Hackney
Islington
Camden
Brent
Ealing
Hounslow
Richmond upon Thames
Kingston upon Thames
Merton
Sutton
Croydon
Bromley
Lewisham
Greenwich
Bexley
Havering
Barking and Dagenham
Redbridge
Newham
Waltham Forest
Haringey
Enfield
Barnet
Harrow
Hillingdon

Birmingham is part of West Midlands. It used to be split across Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire before it changed I think.

I know it has boroughs, I live there :cool:

It's just some people say it is a county, but others say it's part of 'Greater London'. Hmm.

Reply 10

geetar

16

m90

London is a county.

No it's not. It's Middlesex.

I think my mission to prove myself an arrogant know-it-all has been fulfilled...

Reply 11

lodzinski

14

technically not a county in the traditional sense - majoritively in warwicks. but for easy administration it is in 'west mids' at least it is controlled by the west midlands pen pushing authority. Saves the endless argument over which council pays for Birmingham.

Reply 12

dan

11

Vesta

I know it has boroughs, I live there :cool:

It's just some people say it is a county, but others say it's part of 'Greater London'. Hmm.

London isn't a county and it isn't in a county.

Reply 13

Vesta

18

dangle

London isn't a county and it isn't in a county.

So what is it?

Reply 14

dooby

1

I thought London was in the county of Middlesex?

Reply 15

SuperDaz

13

Middlesex was absorbed into Greater London was it not.

Reply 16

kjc_us

14

I thought it was in West Midlands.
According to Wikipedia:

Region: West Midlands
Ceremonial county: West Midlands
Historic county: Warwickshire
(some suburbs from Staffordshire and Worcestershire)

Reply 17

kjc_us

14

m90

London is a county. London has boroughs:

City of Westminster
Kensington and Chelsea
Hammersmith and Fulham
Wandsworth
Lambeth
Southwark
Tower Hamlets
Hackney
Islington
Camden
Brent
Ealing
Hounslow
Richmond upon Thames
Kingston upon Thames
Merton
Sutton
Croydon
Bromley
Lewisham
Greenwich
Bexley
Havering
Barking and Dagenham
Redbridge
Newham
Waltham Forest
Haringey
Enfield
Barnet
Harrow
Hillingdon

Birmingham is part of West Midlands. It used to be split across Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire before it changed I think.

I'm so incredibly stupid. I thought Knightsbridge was a borough of London - I only just found out, it's a street. :rolleyes:

I ditched Geography when I was 14 for a reason...

Reply 18

m90

11

geetar

No it's not. It's Middlesex.

I think my mission to prove myself an arrogant know-it-all has been fulfilled...

No, actually, and I know this because my grandfather used to work for Middlesex county.

Wikipedia agrees saying: England in 1889 part of Middlesex was used to form the County of London and the remainder formed the administrative county of Middlesex.

By 1965 urban London had further expanded and almost all of the original area was incorporated into Greater London. Middlesex is still used informally as an area name and may be included in some postal addresses.

I guess you're one of those people ^ ^
So yeah, basically Middlesex was abolished in 1965, leaving the County of London (which yes is made up from Middlesex, but isn't Middlesex now. Not as an administrative unit, but just by people wanting to claim it still exists.

Reply 19

dan

11

Vesta

So what is it?

A region.

What county is Birmingham in?

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