UK Counties Words for Hangman 🗺️

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Kent

County in South East England nicknamed "the Garden of England", home to the White Cliffs of Dover.

Essex

East of England county with one of England's longest coastlines and Colchester, Britain's oldest recorded town.

Devon

South West England county with Dartmoor, part of Exmoor, and the cities of Exeter and Plymouth.

Cornwall

County at the far western end of the South West Peninsula, with Lizard Point and the city of Truro.

Dorset

South West England county whose coast has Durdle Door, Lulworth Cove and Chesil Beach.

Surrey

Home county with the densest woodland cover in England, split in two by the chalk North Downs.

Sussex

Old kingdom and historic county on the south coast, now split into East and West, with Brighton.

Norfolk

East Anglian county with the city of Norwich and the northern half of the Broads waterways.

Suffolk

East Anglian county with Ipswich, horse racing at Newmarket and the huge container port of Felixstowe.

Yorkshire

Historic county of Northern England, once the largest in the UK by area, with a white rose emblem.

Durham

North East England county where the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first public steam railway, opened.

Somerset

South West England county with the city of Bath, all of the Mendip Hills and the Glastonbury Festival.

Cumbria

North West England county formed in 1974, home to the Lake District and Scafell Pike, England's highest mountain.

Fife

Scottish council area on a peninsula between the Firths of Tay and Forth, home of the world's oldest golf course.

Rutland

East Midlands county that was the smallest historic county of England; its only towns are Oakham and Uppingham.

Antrim

One of Northern Ireland's six counties, home to the Giant's Causeway and most of the city of Belfast.

Tyrone

The largest of Northern Ireland's six counties, with Omagh as its county town and the Sperrin Mountains.

Angus

Scottish council area whose old county was called Forfarshire until 1928, with the coastal towns of Arbroath and Montrose.

Powys

The largest and most sparsely populated county in Wales, where the rivers Severn and Wye both begin.

Orkney

About 70 islands off mainland Scotland's north coast, with Kirkwall and some of Europe's oldest Neolithic sites.

Hampshire

South East England county with the New Forest and the cities of Winchester and Portsmouth.

Cheshire

North West England county famous for a cheese named after it, and for salt and silk; Crewe is here.

Lancashire

North West England county with the city of Preston and seaside Blackpool; its county flower is a red rose.

Wiltshire

South West England county with the Stonehenge and Avebury stone circles, which together form a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Berkshire

Officially a "Royal County" in South East England, home to Windsor Castle, with Reading as its county town.

Shropshire

County on the Welsh border with Shrewsbury and Coalbrookdale, seen as a birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

Derbyshire

East Midlands county with most of the Peak District, the spa town of Buxton and the UK spot furthest from the sea.

Oxfordshire

South East England county with Blenheim Palace, the Uffington White Horse and the town of Banbury.

Lincolnshire

The second largest county in England, with the seaside resort of Skegness and the port town of Grimsby.

Northumberland

England's least densely populated county, on the Scottish border, with Berwick-upon-Tweed and the Cheviot Hills.

Merseyside

Metropolitan county in North West England, created in 1974, with Liverpool and Birkenhead; it produced the Beatles.

Cumberland

Historic North West England county with Carlisle and the Solway Firth coast; a new council took its name in 2023.

Westmorland

Historic county that included part of the Lake District; Appleby was its county town and Helvellyn its highest point.

Middlesex

Historic county bounded by the rivers Thames, Lea and Colne, now almost entirely within Greater London.

Isle Of Wight

County across the Solent from Hampshire, with the towns of Ryde and Cowes and Queen Victoria's Osborne House.

Anglesey

Welsh county on the largest island in Wales, across the Menai Strait, with the ferry port of Holyhead.

Gwynedd

North-west Wales county with Snowdon, Wales' highest mountain, and the castles of Caernarfon and Harlech.

Armagh

The smallest of Northern Ireland's six counties, nicknamed the "Orchard County" for its many apple orchards.

Ayrshire

Historic county on Scotland's Firth of Clyde, with Kilmarnock and the birthplace of poet Robert Burns.

Shetland

Scottish island group that is the northernmost region of the UK, with Lerwick and the Up Helly Aa fire festivals.

Worcestershire

West Midlands county on the River Severn with the Malvern Hills; a savoury sauce is named after it.

Leicestershire

East Midlands county known for Stilton cheese and Melton Mowbray pork pies; the Battle of Bosworth Field was here.

Gloucestershire

South West England county with most of the Cotswolds, the Forest of Dean and the spa town of Cheltenham.

Warwickshire

West Midlands county where William Shakespeare was born, in Stratford-upon-Avon; the town of Rugby is here too.

Northamptonshire

East Midlands county long famous for making boots and shoes, with Kettering, Corby and Silverstone Circuit.

Nottinghamshire

East Midlands county crossed by the River Trent, home to Sherwood Forest and the legend of Robin Hood.

Buckinghamshire

Home county with the city of Milton Keynes, the Chiltern Hills and Pinewood Film Studios.

Hertfordshire

East of England county bordering London, with Watford, St Albans and Letchworth, the prototype garden city.

Herefordshire

Rural West Midlands county on the Welsh border, crossed by the River Wye and known for its fruit and cider.

Cambridgeshire

East Anglian county with Peterborough, Ely and the flat Fens, where Holme Fen is the UK's lowest point.

Staffordshire

West Midlands county famous for pottery from Stoke-on-Trent, and home to the Alton Towers theme park.

Huntingdonshire

Historic county merged away in 1965, now a district of Cambridgeshire whose largest town is St Neots.

Kirkcudbrightshire

Historic county of south-west Scotland on the Solway Firth, also called the Stewartry or "East Galloway".

Clackmannanshire

Scottish council area on the Firth of Forth, nicknamed "The Wee County" as Britain's smallest historic county.

Carmarthenshire

South-west Wales county known as the "Garden of Wales", with Llanelli and the Dylan Thomas Boathouse.

Pembrokeshire

South-west Wales county with a coastal national park, seaside Tenby and St Davids, the UK's smallest city by population.

Monmouthshire

South-east Wales county on the border with England, with Abergavenny, Chepstow and the Severn Bridge crossing into England.

Fermanagh

Northern Ireland county with Enniskillen, where lakes and waterways like Lough Erne cover nearly a third.

Caithness

Historic Scottish county with Dunnet Head, mainland Britain's northernmost point, and the towns of Wick and Thurso.

Dumfriesshire

Historic county of southern Scotland on the Solway Firth, made up of Annandale, Eskdale and Nithsdale.