County Codes

It is always helpful and space saving when entering place names to your records to use the 3 letter Chapman County Codes to identify the county that place is in. This is especially helpful when there are multiple places with the same name like Preston of which there are apparently 41 in England. For family history purposes it is best to use the codes for the pre 1974 counties such as Cumberland and Westmorland (CUL & WES) which were merged into the single county of Cumbria in 1974.

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Countries
England
Scotland
Ireland
Wales
Islands

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Countries

England (ENG)
Ireland (IRL)
Scotland (SCT)
Wales (WLS)

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England (ENG)

Bedfordshire (BDF)
Berkshire (BRK)
Buckinghamshire (BKM)
Cambridgeshire (CAM)
Cheshire (CHS)
Cornwall (CON)
Cumberland (CUL)
Derbyshire (DBY)
Devonshire (DEV)
Dorset (DOR)
Durham (DUR)
Essex (ESS)
Gloucestershire (GLS)
Hampshire (HAM)
Herefordshire (HEF)
Hertfordshire (HRT)
Huntingdonshire (HUN)
Kent (KEN)
Lancashire (LAN)
Leicestershire (LEI)
Lincolnshire (LIN)
London (City only) (LND)
Middlesex (MDX)
Norfolk (NFK)
Northamptonshire (NTH)
Northumberland (NBL)
Nottinghamshire (NTT)
Oxfordshire (OXF)
Rutland (RUT)
Shropshire (SAL)
Somerset (SOM)
Staffordshire (STS)
Suffolk (SFK)
Surrey (SRY)
Sussex (SSX)
Warwickshire (WAR)
Westmorland (WES)
Wiltshire (WIL)
Worcestershire (WOR)
Yorkshire (YKS)
YKS East Riding (ERY)
YKS North Riding (NRY)
YKS West Riding (WRY)

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Scotland (SCT)

Aberdeenshire (ABD)
Angus (ANS)
Argyllshire (ARL)
Ayrshire (AYR)
Banffshire (BAN)
Berwickshire (BEW)
Buteshire (BUT)
Caithness-shire (CAI)
Clackmannanshire (CLK)
Dumfriesshire (DFS)
Dunbartonshire (DNB)
East Lothian (ELN)
Fifeshire (FIF)
Forfarshire (FOR)
Inverness-shire (INV)
Kincardineshire (KCD)
Kinross-shire (KRS)
Kirkcudbrightshire (KKD)
Lanarkshire (LKS)
Midlothian (MLN)
Morayshire (MOR)
Nairnshire (NAI)
Orkney Isles (OKI)
Peeblesshire (PEE)
Perthshire (PER)
Renfrewshire (RFW)
Ross & Cromarty (ROC)
Roxburghshire (ROX)
Selkirkshire (SEL)
Shetland Isles (SHI)
Stirlingshire (STI)
Sutherland (SUT)
West Lothian (WLN)
Wigtownshire (WIG)

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Ireland (IRL)

Antrim (ANT)
Armagh (ARM)
Carlow (CAR)
Cavan (CAY)
Clare (CLA)
Cork (COR)
Donegal (DON)
Down (DOW)
Dublin (DUB)
Fermanagh (FER)
Galway (GAL)
Kerry (KER)
Kildare (KID)
Kilkenny (KIK)
Leitrim (LET)
Leix (Queens) (LEX)
Limerick (LIM)
Londonderry (LDY)
Longford (LOG)
Louth (LOU)
Mayo (MAY)
Meath (MEA)
Monaghan (MOG)
Offaly (Kings) (OFF)
Roscommon (ROS)
Sligo (SLI)
Tipperary (TIP)
Tyrone (TYR)
Waterford (WAT)
Westmeath (WEM)
Wexford (WEX)
Wicklow (WIC)

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Wales (WLS)

Anglesey (AGY)
Brecknockshire (BRE)
Caernarvonshire (CAE)
Cardiganshire (CGN)
Carmarthenshire (CMN)
Denbighshire (DEN)
Flintshire (FLN)
Glamorgan (GLA)
Merionethshire (MER)
Monmouthshire (MON)
Montgomeryshire (MGY)
Pembrokeshire (PEM)
Radnorshire (RAD)

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Islands

Channel Islands (CHI)
Alderney (ALD)
Guernsey (GSY)
Jersey (JSY)
Sark (SRK)
Isle of Man (IOM)
Isle of Wight (IOW)

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