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England's geology by county

Definitions of geological terms can be found in the glossary.

• East Midlands
  • Derbyshire (including City of Derby)
  • Leicestershire (including City of Leicester and Rutland)
  • Lincolnshire (including North and North East Lincolnshire)
  • Northamptonshire (including Milton Keynes)
  • Nottinghamshire (including City of Nottingham)
• East of England
  • Bedfordshire (including Luton)
  • Cambridgeshire (including City of Peterborough)
  • Essex (including Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea)
  • Hertfordshire
  • Norfolk
  • Suffolk
• North East
  • Durham (including Darlington, Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesborough, Hartlepool and Redcar and Cleveland)
  • Northumberland
  • Tyne and Wear
• North West
  • Cheshire
  • Cumbria
  • Greater Manchester (including: Wigan, Bolton, Salford, Trafford, Bury, Rochdale, Stockport, Manchester, Tameside and Oldham)
  • Lancashire (including Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool)
  • Merseyside (Halton, Sefton, Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington and the Wirral Districts)
• South East
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Greater London
  • Hampshire (including: Isle of Wight, Southampton, Portsmouth, Havant)
  • Kent (including Medway)
  • Oxfordshire
  • Surrey
  • Sussex - East and West (including The City of Brighton and Hove)
  • West Berkshire (including Reading, Wokingham, Bracknell Forest, Windsor and Maidenhead, and Slough)
• South West
  • Cornwall (inc Isles of Scilly)
  • Devon (including Plymouth and Torbay)
  • Dorset (including Poole and Bournemouth)
  • Gloucestershire
  • North Somerset (South Gloucestershire, Bath and North East Somerset and City of Bristol)
  • Somerset
  • Wiltshire (including Swindon)
• West Midlands
  • Herefordshire
  • Shropshire (including Telford and Wrekin)
  • Staffordshire (including City of Stoke-on-Trent)
  • Warwickshire
  • West Midlands (City of Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Sandwell, Birmingham, Solihull and Coventry Districts)
  • Worcestershire
• Yorkshire and the Humber
  • East Riding of Yorkshire
  • North Yorkshire
  • South Yorkshire (Barnsley, Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster Districts)
  • West Yorkshire (Bradford, Calderdale, Leeds, Kirklees and Wakefield Districts)

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