County council (England)

County councils were established by the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government Act 1985. It declared that there would be one for each non-metropolitan county, and its name would be "The County Council" with the name of the county. The county councils created by the Act were thus:

• Avon County Council
• Bedfordshire County Council
• Berkshire County Council
• Buckinghamshire County Council
• Cambridgeshire County Council
• Cheshire County Council
• Cleveland County Council
• Cornwall County Council
• Cumbria County Council
• Derbyshire County Council
• Devon County Council
• Dorset County Council
• Durham County Council
• East Sussex County Council
• Essex County Council
• Gloucestershire County Council
• Hampshire County Council
• Hereford and Worcester County Council
• Hertfordshire County Council
• Humberside County Council
• Isle of Wight County Council
• Kent County Council
• Lancashire County Council
• Leicestershire County Council
• Lincolnshire County Council
• Norfolk County Council
• North Yorkshire County Council
• Northamptonshire County Council
• Northumberland County Council
• Nottinghamshire County Council
• Oxfordshire County Council
• Salop County Council
• Somerset County Council
• Staffordshire County Council
• Suffolk County Council
• Surrey County Council
• Warwickshire County Council
• West Sussex County Council
• Wiltshire County Council