In message
, at
07:16:43 on Tue, 29 Dec 2009, MIG
remarked:

any county is an administrative concept and its borders are
administrative and can't be anything else.

No, they can be geographic, ignoring recent administrative changes.

For a moment I thought you were falling into the nonsensical "it's
really in Cheshire but administratively in Greater Manchester" sort of
comment.

Nottingham City is still in(side) Nottinghamshire, despite being a
unitary authority.

I can accept the "feels like" and the boundaries used by different
utilities and transport systems, but I can't be doing with the idea
that current administrative boundaries are administrative, while
previous administrative boundaries are real.

It's only fairly recently that the administrative boundaries have been
tinkered with so that they don't line up with centuries-old geographic
boundaries.
--
Roland Perry