Unlike similar reforms elsewhere at the same time, the non-metropolitan county was not abolished.

Other counties, however, have been moved or abolished in later centuries.

In the following areas, the existing non-metropolitan counties have been abolished.

The remaining districts and the county were abolished as part of local government restructuring on 1 April 2009.

That county was abolished in the following year.

The county was established in 1696 and was abolished in 1739.

In 1996, the county was abolished and four separate unitary authorities were created.

When that county was abolished in 1996 it was made a unitary authority.

The following September, when the counties were abolished, the office of prefect was done away with.

The county of Avon was formed in 1974 and abolished in 1996.