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| | Administrative counties of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | There are 35 such counties: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, North Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Worcestershire Of these, all apart from Berkshire also have county councils. |
 | | Main article: 1990s UK local government reform The 1990s led to the restoration of county boroughs under a new name, unitary authorities, which radically changed the administrative Map of England. |
 | | Main article: Northern England referendums, 2004 As part of the Blair government's policy of devolution, a referendum was held in November 2004 about whether North East England should have an elected regional assembly. |
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