A report on Gloucestershire, Ceremonial counties of England and Oxfordshire

A campus of the University of Gloucestershire

Ceremonial counties before the creation of Greater London in 1965 (depicting each county corporate as part of its main county)

Brasenose Lane in Oxford city centre, a street onto which three colleges back.

Ceremonial counties from 1974 to 1996 (City of London not shown)

The University of Oxford's Chemistry Research Laboratory.

The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, a ‘textbook’ example of the English medieval manor house.

The south cloister of Gloucester Cathedral was used for filming scenes in the Harry Potter films.

A boar of the local Gloucestershire Old Spot breed.

The ceremonial county borders Warwickshire to the north-west, Northamptonshire to the north-east, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, Wiltshire to the south-west and Gloucestershire to the west.

- Oxfordshire

Gloucestershire borders Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire to the east, Wiltshire to the south, Bristol and Somerset to the south-west, and the Welsh county of Monmouthshire to the west.

- Gloucestershire

Upon the abolition of Avon in 1996, the region north of Bristol became a unitary authority area of South Gloucestershire and is now part of the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire.

- Gloucestershire

Apart from minor boundary revisions (for example, Caversham, a town in Oxfordshire, becoming part of Reading county borough and thus of Berkshire, in 1911), these areas changed little until the 1965 creation of Greater London and of Huntingdon and Peterborough, which resulted in the abolition of the offices of Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, Lord Lieutenant of the County of London, and Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire and the creation of the Lord Lieutenant of Greater London and of the Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdon and Peterborough.

- Ceremonial counties of England

The County of Avon that had been formed in 1974 was mostly split between Gloucestershire and Somerset, but its city of Bristol regained the status of a county in itself, which it had lost upon the formation of Avon.

- Ceremonial counties of England

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Wiltshire

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The County Ground, Swindon is the home of Swindon Town, the only football league club in Wiltshire

A bridge over the River Avon at Bradford-on-Avon

The flight of 16 locks at Caen Hill on the Kennet and Avon Canal

Wiltshire (abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of 3485 km2.

It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the northeast and Berkshire to the east.

Warwickshire

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County in the West Midlands region of England.

Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick from Church Street

Warwickshire is bordered by Leicestershire to the northeast, Staffordshire to the northwest, Worcestershire and the West Midlands to the west, Northamptonshire to the east and southeast, Gloucestershire to the southwest and Oxfordshire to the south.

However, the West Midlands county name has not been altogether abolished, and still exists for ceremonial purposes.