Talk:Cornwall Gazetteers

This description is of historic interest, but is more than 100 years out-of-date. The mining industry has disappeared, with the closure of the last mine in the 1990s. Pilchard are no long caught commercially, and the small farms are now being consolidated into larger farms. There is no longer a system of "lease on three lives," and all the statistical data is no longer accurate.

Use of word county
Why do Americans insist on putting County after the names of English counties?

In England we say Cornwall, Devon, Middlesex, Northumberland without the word county, the exception being County Durham. Old-fashioned terminology might use the County of xxx, but this sounds pompous to modern ears. An English county bears no relation to an American county. In terms of population some counties are nearly equivalent to US states, but as the English system of government is centralised as opposed to the US Federal system, they do not have the same powers.

I propose that all articles on English counties conform to modern practice and leave out the word county in the title.