The 11 UK counties that don't have a single city

Boscobel House in Shropshire is famous as the place where Charles II hid in Battle of Worcester (Image: Getty) Did you know there are as many as 11 counties that don’t contain a single city? There are 92 counties in total covering Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland, and only a handful of them are without any cities whatsoever. A town can only be granted city status by a monarch in the UK, and back in the 19th century, many towns were elevated to city status during Queen Victoria’s reign. Belfast, Birmingham, Sheffield, Bradford and Nottingham were all granted the status by the Queen.

There’s something quite charming about a county with no cities. We’ve put together the list of the only citiless counties that remain, and some of them may surprise you. Northumberland function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.

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