According to Shire Facts for Kids and Wikipedia , the following English counties officially or traditionally use the suffix: Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Derbyshire Gloucestershire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Northamptonshire Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire Staffordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire Important Distinctions
There are administrative counties in the United Kingdom that end in "shire." how many uk counties end in shire
: The term is not used in the names of the six traditional counties. Full List of English "-shire" Counties According to Shire Facts for Kids and Wikipedia
Includes Aberdeenshire , Ayrshire , Dumfriesshire , Lanarkshire , Perthshire , and Stirlingshire . Administrative Area1 United Kingdom 23 in Scotland
In the United Kingdom, there are that end in "-shire": 23 in England, 23 in Scotland, and 10 in Wales .