On Feb 7, 5:47*pm, ticketyboo wrote:

On Feb 6, 10:26*pm, MIG wrote:

Living in London, I have trouble with the ones that insist on a county.

You just put London in again, I think

Not if there's a drop-down list and it's not there!


Living in a Unitary Authority, I have trouble with the ones that
insist on a county (I put the UA name in again). Worse, some assume
that the previous County still exists and insert that automatically.
Then there is the Health Centre one that spells my street name wrong...

Simply because the county council no longer exists, doesn't mean the
county doesn't exist any more - e.g. Berkshire continues to exist as
an administrative entity (specifically as a non-metropolitan county),
albeit one without a county council. Other places that have UAs
continue to sit within ceremonial counties - e.g. the Borough of
Middlesborough and City of Tork are both UAs, but are within the
ceremonial county of North Yorkshire.

With regards to postal addresses, the situation is different again -
postal counties were in routine use until 1996, and many continue to
use them - see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_county