ENGLISH REGIONS

England can be split into broad regions, based on the rough geographical location. These are further split down into counties (equivalent to states).

English regions - North East, North West, Yorkshire & Humber, West Midlands, East Midlands, East Anglia, South East, South West and London.

List of English regions, broken down into counties, with major towns/cities in them.

NORTH EAST – PA category code NRE


County Durham – Durham, Bishop Auckland, Barnard Castle, SedgefieldNorthumberland – Alnwick, Ashington, Bamburgh, Berwick, Hexham, Holy Island, Morpeth.

Tyne and Wear – Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Sunderland, North Shields, South Shields, Washington, Whitley Bay.

NORTH WEST – PA category code NRG



Cheshire – Chester, Macclesfield, Crewe.

Cumbria – Ambleside, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Cockermouth, Coniston, Grange-over-Sands, Kendal, Keswick, Kirkby Lonsdale, Penrith, Sedbergh, Whitehaven, Windermere, Workington.

Greater Manchester – Manchester, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford.

Lancashire – Preston, Lancaster, Blackpool, Blackburn, Burnley, Morecambe.

Merseyside – Liverpool, Aintree, Birkenhead, Bootle, Southport, Speke, St Helens.


YORKSHIRE & HUMBER – PA category code PYH


East Riding of Yorkshire – Hull, Beverley, Bridlington.

North Yorkshire – York, Scarborough, Whitby, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Boroughbridge, Catterick, Driffield, Malton, Redcar, Robin Hood’s Bay, Selby, Skipton, Thirsk, Wetherby.

South Yorkshire – Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham, Doncaster.

West Yorkshire – Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Halifax.

WEST MIDLANDS – PA category code PWA


Shropshire – Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Ironbridge, Telford, Bridgnorth.

Staffordshire – Stafford, Stoke-on-Trent, Burton-upon-Trent, Keele, Lichfield, Tamworth, Uttoxeter.

Warwickshire - Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon, Leamington Spa, Nuneaton, Rugby.

West Midlands – Birmingham, Coventry, Walsall, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich.

Worcestershire – Worcester, Kidderminster, Droitwich, Evesham, Malvern, Redditch


EAST MIDLANDS – PA category code PEM


Derbyshire – Derby, Alfreton, Ashbourne, Bakewell, Belper, Bolsover, Buxton, Castleton, Chapel en le Frith, Chesterfield, Clay Cross, Cromford, Eyam, Glossop, Hathersage, Heanor, Hope, Long Eaton, Matlock, Matlock Bath, Melbourne, New Mills, Staveley, Taddington, Tibshelf, Tideswell, Youlgreave.

Leicestershire – Leicester, Melton Mowbray, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Hinckley, Coalville, Loughborough, Market Harborough, Oakham, Ibstock.

Lincolnshire – Lincoln, Boston, Cleethorpes, Grantham, Grimsby, Immingham, Louth, Horncastle, Mablethorpe, Market Rasen, Scunthorpe, Skegness, Spalding.

Nottinghamshire – Nottingham, Mansfield, Newark, Southwell, Worksop.

Northamptonshire – Northampton, Althorp, Corby, Daventry, Kettering, Oundle


EAST ANGLIA – PA category code PEA

Bedfordshire – Bedford, Biggleswade, Dunstable, Leighton Buzzard, Luton.

Cambridgeshire – Cambridge, Ely, Huntingdon, Peterborough.

Norfolk – Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Hunstanton, King’s Lynn, Cromer, Diss, Sheringham.

Suffolk – Ipswich, Lowestoft, Felixtowe, Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket, Southwold

SOUTH EAST – PA category code NRC

Buckinghamshire – Buckingham, Amersham, Aylesbury, Bletchley, Chesham, High Wycombe, Marlow, Milton Keynes, Wendover, Winslow.

East Sussex – Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings, Lewes, Bexhill-on-Sea, Uckfield.
Essex – Braintree, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Clacton-on-Sea (Clacton), Colchester, Harlow, Harwich, Saffron Walden, Southend-on-Sea (Southend).
Hampshire – Basingstoke, Portsmouth, Southampton, Andover, Aldershot, Winchester.
Kent – Maidstone, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone, Margate, Ramsgate, Ashford, Tunbridge Wells.
Oxfordshire – Oxford, Abingdon, Banbury, Bicester, Chipping Norton, Faringdon, Henley-on-Thames.
Surrey – Guildford, Dorking, Epsom, Leatherhead, Gatwick, Staines, Weybridge, Woking.
West Sussex – Chichester, Arundel, Bognor Regis, Crawley, East Grinstead, Horsham, Worthing.

SOUTH WEST– PA category code NRH

Cornwall – Truro, Newquay, Penzance, Falmouth, Land’s End, St Ives, Bodmin.

Devon – Axminster, Barnstaple, Brixham, Dartmoor, Dartmouth, Exeter, IfracombeDorset – Bournemouth, Dorchester, Gillingham, Lyme Regis, Poole, Portland, Swanage, Weymouth.

Gloucestershire – Gloucester, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Stroud, Swindon,Tewkesbury.

Hertfordshire – Hertford, Hemel Hempstead, Hitchin, Letchworth, St Albans, Stevenage, Watford, Welwyn Garden City.

Somerset – Taunton, Bath, Cheddar, Exmoor, Glastonbury, Portishead, Wells, Weston super Mare, Yeovil.

Wiltshire – Chippenham, Corsham, Devizes, Marlborough.

LONDON – PA category code PLO
Greater London – City of London, Barnet, Camden, Bexley, Bromley, Brent, Barking, Dagenham, Harrow, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Croydon, Sutton, Ealing, Hillingdon, Enfield, Haringey, Greenwich, Lewisham, Havering, Redbridge, Lambeth, Southwark, Merton, Wandsworth, Hackney, Islington, Waltham Forest, Hounslow, Kingston-upon-Thames, Richmond-upon-Thames, Hammersmith, Fulham, Kensington, Chelsea, Westminster. (some of these are towns – others districts of London).