County council (England)

County councils were established by the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government Act 1985. It declared that there would be one for each non-metropolitan county, and its name would be "The County Council" with the name of the county. The non-metropolitan counties created by the Act were:

• Avon
• Bedfordshire
• Berkshire
• Buckinghamshire
• Cambridgeshire
• Cheshire
• Cleveland
• Cornwall
• Cumbria
• Derbyshire
• Devon
• Dorset
• Durham
• East Sussex
• Essex
• Gloucestershire
• Hampshire
• Hereford and Worcester
• Hertfordshire
• Humberside
• Isle of Wight
• Kent
• Lancashire
• Leicestershire
• Lincolnshire
• Norfolk
• North Yorkshire
• Northamptonshire
• Northumberland
• Nottinghamshire
• Oxfordshire
• Salop
• Somerset
• Staffordshire
• Suffolk
• Surrey
• Warwickshire
• West Sussex
• Wiltshire