Toponymical list of counties of the United Kingdom

This list shows the etymology of the names of the counties in the UK. It includes traditional counties and administrative counties.

Note: The word commonly used shire comes from Old English and means " County ".

England

Northern Ireland

Scotland

For some of the listed counties here there is one more name:

  • Elginshire for Morayshire
  • Forfarshire for Angus
  • For Haddingtonshire East Lothian
  • Zetland Shetland

Wales

  • County in the United Kingdom
  • NUTS 2 level
Administrative counties of England Avon (county) Brittonic languages River Avon, Bristol Bedfordshire Bedford Berkshire Buckinghamshire Buckingham Cambridgeshire Cambridge River Cam Cheshire Cleveland (England) Cornwall Cumberland Cumbria Derbyshire Derby Dumnonii Dorset Dorchester (Dorset) County Durham Durham Essex Gloucestershire Gloucester Hereford and Worcester Herford Hertford Humberside Huntingdon Lune (river) Lincoln, England Greater Manchester Merseyside River Mersey Middlesex Northampton Oxford Shrewsbury Stafford Sussex River Wear Warwick West Midlands (county) Westmorland Wilton (Wiltshire) Worcester Yorkshire Macha Downpatrick County Tyrone Aberdeenshire Aberdeen River Dee, Aberdeenshire 8th century Argyll Ayrshire Ayr Banffshire Banff (Aberdeenshire) Berwickshire Berwick-upon-Tweed Caithness Clackmannanshire Clackmannan Cromartyshire Dumfriesshire Dumfries Frisians Dunbartonshire Dumbarton Fife Inverness-shire Inverness River Ness Kincardineshire Kincardine Kinross-shire Kirkcudbrightshire Kirkcudbright Cuthbert Lanarkshire Lanark County of Moray County of Nairn Nairn Peeblesshire Perthshire Perth, Scotland Renfrew Roxburghshire Roxburgh Selkirkshire Stirlingshire Stirling Sutherland Wigtownshire Wigtown Anglesey Brecknockshire Brecon Caernarfonshire Caernarfon Ceredigion Carmarthenshire Clwyd Denbighshire Denbigh Dyfed Flintshire Flint, Flintshire Glamorgan Merionethshire Montgomeryshire Pembroke (Pembrokeshire) Radnorshire Radnor
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