[Tagging] Meaning of "administrative" in boundary=administrative, in your country?

[Paul Allen]

On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 08:39, Colin Smale <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:


> In the UK there are multiple hierarchies of geographic areas, for widely
> differing purposes, that frequently (but not always and not necessarily)
> share borders. For example Police Regions are based on traditional counties
> (which are not "administrative")
>

By "traditional," do you mean the ceremonial counties (aka "lieutenancies")
and the Welsh preserved counties?


> with lots of anomalies.
>

Yeah, like Police Scotland.  Or the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
Or the various forces in Wales, such as Dyfed Powys.  Dyfed was
formed by amalgamating Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and
Cardiganshire, was later split back into its component parts
(Cardiganshire was renamed Ceredigion in that split), and Dyfed
is now a preserved county.

Then we have communities.  Which are the secular replacement for
parishes and in most cases parish councils have been replaced
by community councils, often with the same name.

And then there are health boards/NHS trusts.  These are devolved.  For
example, Hywel Dda University Health Board (Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol)
is part of NHS Wales (GIG Cymru).  The Welsh health boards are
divided into "network clusters", so Hywel Dda has Amman/Gwendraeth,
Llanelli, North Ceredigion, North Pembrokeshire, South Ceredigion,
South Pembrokeshire and Taf/Tywi.  Good luck trying to figure out
the boundaries of those.

-- 
Paul
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