Association of British Counties (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The Association of British Counties (ABC) is a non-party-political outsider pressure group formed in 1989 that promotes the traditional counties of the United Kingdom. It claims that the traditional counties are an important part of Britain's cultural heritage and as such should be preserved and promoted. It proposes that there be a clear official distinction between those current administrative units known as counties, and those counties which existed before local government reforms were introduced, beginning in the late 19th century, and which, it claims, still have an informal existence as cultural entities.