Counties Bug

[+Us 4 and Jess]

This is my 20th and final POSTING BUG (until some complete their missions.)

 

I would like this bug to travel to every county of mainland UK, all you have to do is write your caching teams name on your counties page tell me what your county is famous for and maybe stick in a scenic photograph of your area, (if you put in a photograph please print it on paper so the book does not become too heavy.)

 

This will be on a first come first served basis I only need one caching team from each county.

 

I will put a caching teams name next to each county as they are signed up.

 

All our usual nutters welcome.

 

(There may be more counties or some of these might not exist any more as i used an old map, please let me know if there are more, or IF some of the counties are no more or if any are off the mainland.)

 

ENGLAND

Bedfordshire..................................................Beds Clangers

Berkshire

Buckinghamshire

Cambridgeshire

Cheshire

Cornwall

Cumberland

Derbyshire

Devon ........................................................Wadders

Dorset

Durham

Essex .........................................................qichina

Gloucestershire

Greater Manchester.......................................Bob UK

Hampshire ...................................................The Wilkerson Family

Herefordshire

Hertfordshire ................................................Alibags

Huntingdonshire

Kent ............................................................Silver Fox

Lancashire

Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Merseyside....................................................HazelS

Middlesex

Norfolk

Northamptonshire ..........................................milvus-milvus

Northumberland..............................................Longfram Kev

Nottinghamshire

Oxfordshire ...................................................Helen in Mustarland

Rutland

Shropshire ....................................................The Bolas Heathens

Somerset .......................................................Al & Tracy Smith

Staffordshire

Suffolk ..........................................................MasqueradeUK

Surrey...........................................................Alboy

Sussex

Warwickshire..................................................Warwickshire

Westmorland

Wiltshire......................................................... macroderma

Worcestershire

Yorkshire

North Riding

East Riding

West Riding

York(within the Walls)

 

WALES

Brecknockshire

Caernarfonshire

Carmarthenshire

Cardiganshire

Denbighshire

Flintshire.........................................................................Mancunian Pyrocacher

Glamorgan......................................................................Molljak

Merioneth

Monmouthshire

Montgomeryshire

Pembrokeshire

Radnorshire

 

SCOTLAND

Aberdeenshire

Angus/Forfarshire ..........................................................Team Clova

Argyllshire

Ayrshire

Banffshire

Berwickshire

Cromartyshire

Caithness

Clackmannanshire

Dumfriesshire

Dunbartonshire

East Lothian

Fife

Inverness-shire

Kincardineshire

Kinross-shire (Kinross, Milnathort)

Kirkcudbrightshire

Lanarkshire

Midlothian/Edinburghshire .................................Crazy Druid

Morayshire

Nairnshire

Peeblesshire

Perthshire........................................................Perth Pathfinders

Renfrewshire

Roxburghshire

Selkirkshire

Stirlingshire

Sutherland

West Lothian

Wigtownshire

 

M

Edited April 13, 2006 by Us 4 and Jess

[+The Bolas Heathens]

Shropshire: The Bolas Heathens please!

[+Mr Hedgehog]

Mandy,

Hampshire please

Thanks

[+HazelS]

why no county for Merseyside??

 

I'll have Merseyside when it's been added!! ;-)

[+Brenin Tegeingl]

No 45 Flintshire for Me please

 

Dave

[+Us 4 and Jess]

is merseyside a county ?

 

M

[+bobuk]

Why no Greater Manchester

seeing that we dont live in Lancs no more

 

B.

 

Ps....'who's that geocacher?' arrived with me today..

Edited April 13, 2006 by bobuk

[+HazelS]

is merseyside a county ?

 

M

 

Yes Mandy!!

 

Now, us Wirralians would rather just have a county for Wirral, but since that aint going to happen, I'll have Merseyside please!

[+Alibags]

Bung me down for Hertfordshire!

[+qichina]

Put us down for Essex,

thanks!

[+milvus-milvus]

Can we have Northants please?

[Helen in Mustardland]

Anyone got Oxon yet? (Since qichina's beat me to Essex)

[+Us 4 and Jess]

Why no Greater Manchester

seeing that we dont live in Lancs no more

 

B.

 

Ps....'who's that geocacher?' arrived with me today..

 

Bob i have put you down for greater manchester..........you did want it didnt you?

 

M

Edited April 13, 2006 by Us 4 and Jess

[+Beds Clangers]

Stick me down for Bed (Bedfordshire)

 

Nick

[+MasqueradeUK]

We're in Suffolk.

 

MasqueradeUK

 

Nick & Ginny

[+Us 4 and Jess]

If this is the first time you have put your name on one of my posting bugs could you please send me your name/surname and address to me by email through my geocaching profile.

 

Thanks

 

Mandy

[+marinor]

can't see the county of Kuwait listed Mandy

 

stay safe

Bill

[+Team Clova]

You can put us down for Angus

 

[+Longfram Kev]

Amy and I will take Northumberland

[+CrazyDruid + Redhead]

Put me down for Midlothian

[+Wadders]

Go on then....i'll have Devon, i

've only seen one of the bugs that i have put my name down for so far!!

[+Stuey]

Go on then....i'll have Devon, i

've only seen one of the bugs that i have put my name down for so far!!

 

Thank God... a posting bug that I now don't need to see, hehe Cheers Terry!

Edited April 13, 2006 by Stuey

[+Haggis Hunter]

Put me down for Midlothian

D A M N! I was going to bag that.

[+mollyjak]

Glamorgan in Wales please(although the county was split a few years ago so it can be shared if any other local cachers want to join?????)

This seems easier than your alphabet TB!!!!!!!

[+Silver-Fox]

I can do Kent

Edited April 13, 2006 by Silver-Fox

[+Hillhappy1]

Put me down for Warwickshire. I can't see that's gone yet.

[+macroderma]

I can do Wiltshire (or Bristol aka unitary authority) from the summer!

[+Alboy]

I'll do Surrey please. Email on way!

[+Us 4 and Jess]

Put me down for Midlothian

D A M N! I was going to bag that.

 

any chance of doing me the next county across dave just pop into the next county for the day and take a picture and tell me some info on it

 

M

[+Us 4 and Jess]

Go on then....i'll have Devon, i

've only seen one of the bugs that i have put my name down for so far!!

 

Thank God... a posting bug that I now don't need to see, hehe Cheers Terry!

 

any chance of doing me the next county across stuey just pop into the next county for the day and take a picture and tell me some info on it

 

M

[+Us 4 and Jess]

if your county has gone would it be possible for you to do the next county to you, just take the book with you when you are caching take a picture and tell me about this other county

 

i know when we are caching up here in durham we often cross borders into northumberland and north yorks ect

 

M

[+perth pathfinders]

Perthshire!!

[+Al & Tracy Smith]

Ok......I've finally cracked and wouldn't mind having a go at one of these postal bug thingy’s.

So if you like we can take on Somerset or if someone else really wants it I can think of a couple of others we regularly visit that we could do instead. As requested being a postal bug newbie will email you our contact details.

[+rutson]

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Edited April 14, 2006 by rutson

[+Haggis Hunter]

Put me down for Midlothian

D A M N! I was going to bag that.

 

any chance of doing me the next county across dave just pop into the next county for the day and take a picture and tell me some info on it

 

M

Can't I'm afraid, don't have any Counties up this neck of the woods, I will hang off however and see if anyone takes up the surrounding Regions, and then see how we go.

[+perth pathfinders]

 

Can't I'm afraid, don't have any Counties up this neck of the woods, I will hang off however and see if anyone takes up the surrounding Regions, and then see how we go.

 

 

County/Region? - think we have an idea of what is required for this TB, to visit as many 'Areas' around the UK as is possible.

 

Although I live in Perth, my mail varies from Perthshire to Perth & Kinross to Tayside, most people don't seem to know the correct terminology anymore.

 

Still plenty of 'Areas' to choose from, Look forward to this TB arriving, sounds fun.

[+kewfriend]

I'll take Middlesex

 

What's it famous for: well being on your list but not existing. One of those counties that persists at the Post Office and even on some maps but was abolished long ago.

 

So lets give a big CHEER for MIDDLESEX

 

In the arcane world of postcodes TW is a MIDDX postcode except where we live which is SURREY, though we live in the London Borough of Richmond - but I promise to drive down to Twickenham with the bug!

 

I knew I'd get lumbered with the difficult one

Edited April 14, 2006 by kewfriend

[+Tupperware Hunters]

i live in WEST yorkshire if is available

[+Team Clova]

I have posted a link to here and list of the areas/regions/counties on the Scottish Geofrees forum

 

Hope to generate some more interest among the Scottish cachers

 

Really looking forward to getting the bug

[+rutson]

i live in WEST yorkshire if is available

 

West Riding is on the list Craig

[+The Forester]

We no longer have Regions in Scotland, but I'll happily take on West Lothian and Falkirk, both of which are the modern equivalents of Counties in Scotland.

[+Geoki]

We'll do Aberdeenshire.

[+Haggis Hunter]

We no longer have Regions in Scotland, .................

You learn something new every day. Looks like the Scottish Tourist Site needs to update their information.

[+Scotsbob]

Stick me down for Lanarkshire, Scotland

[+lathama]

i'll have Lincolnshire

 

and just to point out your missing:

 

Isle of Wight

Isles of Scily

Edited April 14, 2006 by lathama

[+Paul & Ros]

Were in, but not sure where for in your list.

 

We live in North Yorkshire, West Riding. It's all very confusing as the old ridings and current counties don't match up.

[+slimey]

Stick me down for Berkshire - the kids will enjoy coming up with something to write in the book.

 

I'll try to remember to email you my address...

[+The Forester]

The old "Regions" were rent asunder at the last local government reorganisation. Giant outfits such as Strathclyde, Central, and the Lothians were split up into their current constituent parts.

 

There are still some vestiges of the old Regions, in the form and layout of some of the Polis forces. Strathclyde Polis, Central Polis and L&B are still pretty much as they were under the old "Regions" regime, but for local government and most other adminstrative purposes the Regions are a dead duck.

 

These endless reorganisations are a pain for mapmakers. Looking back over the many editions of the OS maps for my local area I can see lots of different and completely incompatible counties being assigned to this area. At various times it has been part of Linlithgow, Stirling, Lothian and Falkirk. The postal codes and BT STD codes too are bonkers. The confusion is endless. Try calling the Polis or the Fire Brigade in this area and you can forget a response within the first hour. Each of the responsible authorities convinces themselves that this place is in the other guys' county.

 

The post office's (formerly Consignia when the wretched thing was cobbled together) database of postal addresses is a mess at the margins of the two counties. Housenames are mispelled or just plain wrong or are listed as being on the wrong side of the dividing burn. If it wasn't for the fact that Postie knows all the people in the community by name and knows where letters should go, we'd never get any mail at all. He knows that Chris lives here; Sandy lives there; Ian lives over there and Rab owns the unoccupied farm yonder, so all the mail gets delivered to the right places. Pity the poor sods from FedEx, UPS, TNT et al. They have the duff database on their PDA/GPSs and they are reduced to calling in at the first handy household to ask where they should deliver their packets to.

 

The problem is widespread. Even the Muiravonside Country Park, which actually belongs to Falkirk Cooncil for heavens sake, has the problem of being an EH postcode and has an 0131 phone number. For the past five years West Lothian Social Work Dept has been bringing a group of special needs people to the park once or twice a week to do some voluntary estate work. They love the work; the work ethos has done them all a great deal of good, physically and intellectually and emotionally; and they've done great things and have learned a lot about such things as how to build and maintain paths and flights of steps, how to plant and prune trees and how to look after a riparian landscape. Sadly, it has recently ended in tears when some numptie in West Lothian Cooncil 'discovered' that Muiravonside, despite being substantially further East than much of West Lothian, is actually part of Falkirk's patch. They've put the kybosh on those special people doing what they've loved doing for the past five years.

 

As for the "Core path Plan" of the two counties, don't get me started!!

 

Blame the fools in the triple numptaria of Leith, St Andrews House and Halitosis Hall at Holyrood for the ongoing foolishness of the endless incompetence of the endless rearrangement(s) of the local government furniture.

[+The Forester]

Of all the many wrong online gazetteers of Scottish counties, Google Earth takes the biscuit.

 

Perhaps they think that this county is on the sun-facing side of Ben Ararat?

[The Washers UK]

Hi The Washers Staffordshire, please.