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. Since 1972, there have been various boundary and structural changes, leaving us with:

• Buckinghamshire County Council
• Cambridgeshire County Council
• Cornwall County Council (unitary)
• Cumbria County Council
• Derbyshire County Council
• Devon County Council
• Dorset County Council
• Durham County Council (unitary)
• East Sussex County Council
• Essex County Council
• Gloucestershire County Council
• Hampshire County Council
• Hertfordshire County Council
• Isle of Wight Council (unitary; name changed by SI 1994/1210)
• Kent County Council
• Lancashire County Council
• Leicestershire County Council
• Lincolnshire County Council
• Norfolk County Council
• North Yorkshire County Council
• Northamptonshire County Council
• Northumberland County Council (unitary)
• Nottinghamshire County Council
• Oxfordshire County Council
• Shropshire County Council (name changed from "Salop" in 1970s)
• Somerset County Council
• Staffordshire County Council
• Suffolk County Council
• Surrey County Council
• Warwickshire County Council
• West Sussex County Council
• Wiltshire County Council (unitary)
• Worcestershire County Council (created by SI 1996/1867)

The county councils of Cornwall, Northumberland, Shropshire, Wiltshire, and Durham have the right to remove the word "County" from their names (SI 2009/837).