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Standard Statistical Regions Prior to the establishment of the 'Government Office Regions', there were eight 'Standard Statistical Regions':
Civil defence regions The present government office regions closely resemble Civil Defence Regions. The United Kingdom was divided into 11 such regions, most of which were divided themselves into sub-regions. The regions were numbered as shown in the list, numbers for sub-regions were of the form 11. From the mid-1980s, these were as follows (using 1974 counties/1975 regions) # Scotland ## Fife / Grampian / Highland / Orkney / Shetland / Tayside / Western Isles ## Borders / Central / Dumfries And Galloway / Lothian / Strathclyde #North East England ##( North East England ) - Cleveland / Durham / Northumberland / Tyne And Wear ##( Yorkshire And The Humber ) - Humberside / North Yorkshire / South Yorkshire / West Yorkshire # East Midlands ## Derbyshire / Lincolnshire / Nottinghamshire ## Leicestershire / Northamptonshire # East Of England ## Cambridgeshire / Norfolk / Suffolk ## Bedfordshire / Essex / Hertfordshire # Greater London - see Civil Defence Centres In London for sub-regions # South East England ## East Sussex / Kent / Surrey / West Sussex ## Berkshire / Buckinghamshire / Hampshire / Isle Of Wight / Oxfordshire # South West England ## Avon / Dorset / Gloucestershire / Somerset / Wiltshire ## Cornwall / Devon # Wales ## Gwynedd / Clwyd ## Dyfed / Gwent / Mid Glamorgan / Powys / South Glamorgan / West Glamorgan # West Midlands ## Staffordshire / Warwickshire / West Midlands ## Hereford And Worcester / Shropshire # North West England ## Cumbria / Lancashire ## Cheshire / Greater Manchester / Merseyside # Northern Ireland The regions were based on pre- Second World War regions, but were substantially altered in the 1970s , with the merger of South East and Southern regions, and alterations in the north. They were again altered in 1984, to merge the English regions 1 and 2 to become a single region, and Scotland's two southern regions (East and West Zones) becoming a single South Zone. {Link without Title} In the Second World War the regions had been roughly {Link without Title} # Durham , Northumberland , Yorkshire, North Riding #Yorkshire, East and West Riding # Derbyshire , Leicestershire , Lincolnshire , Northamptonshire , Nottinghamshire , Rutland # Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire , Essex , Hertfordshire , Huntingdonshire , Norfolk , Suffolk # London (larger area than County Of London / Middlesex , possibly same as Metropolitan Police District # Berkshire , Buckinghamshire , Dorset , Hampshire , Oxfordshire # Cornwall , Devon , Gloucestershire , Somerset , Wiltshire # Wales (including Monmouthshire ) # Herefordshire , Shropshire , Staffordshire , Warwickshire , Worcestershire # Cheshire , Cumberland , Lancashire and Westmorland # Scotland # Kent , Surrey and Sussex Redcliffe-Maud provinces The Redcliffe-Maud Report produced by the Royal Commission on local government reform in 1969 recommended the creation of eight provinces. In approximate terms, these were to be : # North East - as per North East England # Yorkshire - as per Yorkshire And The Humber # North West - as per North West England , excluding southern Cheshire # West Midlands - as per West Midlands , including southern Cheshire # East Midlands - as per East Midlands , less Northamptonshire # South West - as per South West England # East Anglia - Cambridgeshire , Norfolk , Suffolk , northern Essex # South East - South East England and Greater London with Northamptonshire , Hertfordshire , Bedfordshire , southern Essex Britain in Bloom regions Britain In Bloom divide England into 12 regions. They are broadly the same as the government office regions, except that Cumbria is a region in itself, and South East England into three - Thames And Chilterns , Southern England and a rump South East England. National Trust The National Trust has 10 regional offices in England. These are
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