As discussed in the post on requesting UK city communities on Feddit.uk in some cases it may be better to start a wider regional community (county, city region, etc) and then spin off ones for cities and towns as it grows.
And, yes, there’ll be some debate over names. Either debate it below (where you should also flag up ommisions) or get cracking and we can tidy up later.
Administrative divisions (countries, principalities and the like) of the United Kingdom
- England
- Scotland
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Channel Islands
- Isle of Man
Regions or sub-divisions (counties, both metropolitan and non-metropoiitan, often defaulting to the traditional counties for now):
England:
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Cornwall
- Cumbria
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Dorset
- County Durham
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Hampshire
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Huntingdonshire?
- Isle of Wight
- Isles of Scilly
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Liverpool - Liverpool City Region
- London - Greater London
- Manchester - Greater Manchester
- Middlesex
- Norfolk
- Northamptonshire
- Nottinghamshire
- Northumberland
- Oxfordshire
- Rutland
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Sussex - covering East and West
- Warwickshire
- Wiltshire
- Worcestershire
- Yorkshire - covering West, South and North Yorkshire
Scotland:
- Aberdeenshire
- Argyll
- Ayrshire
- Berwickshire
- Bute
- Banffshire
- Caithness
- Clackmannanshire
- Cromartyshire
- Dumbartonshire
- Dumfriesshire
- Elginshire or Moray
- Edinburghshire or Midlothian
- Fife
- Forfarshire or Angus
- Haddingtonshire or East Lothian
- Inverness-shire
- Kincardineshire
- Kinross-shire
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Lanarkshire
- Linlithgowshire or West Lothian
- Nairnshire
- Orkney
- Peeblesshire or Tweeddale
- Perthshire
- Renfrewshire
- Ross-shire
- Roxburghshire or Teviotdale
- Selkirkshire or Ettrick Forest
- Shetland
- Stirlingshire
- Sutherland
- Stirling
- Wigtownshire
Wales:
- Anglesey
- Brecknockshire
- Cardiganshire
- Caernarfonshire
- Carmarthenshire
- Denbighshire
- Flintshire
- Glamorganshire
- Merionthshire
- Monmouthshire
- Montgomeryshire
- Pembrokeshire
- Radnorshire
Northern Ireland:
- Antrim
- Armagh
- Derry/Londonderry - that’s above my pay grade
- Down
- Fermanagh
- Tyrone
Channel Islands:
- Alderney
- Guernsey
- Herm
- Jersey
- Sark
Other:
- Falklands
- Gibraltar
- Isle of Man
Thanks for that.
On the links front, Lemmy uses the same system as Reddit but copy and pasting in the URL will do. When using markdown, it’s best to use the general link format for a community, like /c/lancashire.