I feel compelled to add further Cambridgeshire pedantry. There were originally 4 counties, Cambridgeshire (bit around Cambridge), Isle of Ely (the fen bit), Huntingdonshire, and the Soke of Peterborough (formerly Northamptonshire). For about a decade they were two counties, then merged to one in 1974. Peterborough broke off as unitary in 1998. Peterborough gets the name check because it is the names of the two top level councils I suppose (and to make it more palatable to peterboughites). Some in Cambridge wish to bring back the old much smaller Cambridgeshire boundary to escape from the ever-tory flatlands to the north.
As a child of the North East; whilst Gateshead is a town in its own right, I doubt there'd be many that take issue with it being lumped in with Newcastle as a unitary authority. The problem always comes with the border between Gateshead and S(cum)underland - there are a lot of people in South Shields (undeniably on the Tyne) who proudly wear a red and white shirt. God only knows why.
Surely the only interesting thing to say about the North of Tyne Combined Authority is that it includes the Hexham and Prudhoe area of Northumberland that is south of the River Tyne
Think the reason Peterborough gets a name check but Huntingdonshire doesn't is that Huntingdonshire is part of Cambridgeshire county council, whereas Peterborough is its own unitary authority...despite still being part of the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire. Someone really needs to do a tidying up exercise on English local government. It's a confusing mess.
I feel compelled to add further Cambridgeshire pedantry. There were originally 4 counties, Cambridgeshire (bit around Cambridge), Isle of Ely (the fen bit), Huntingdonshire, and the Soke of Peterborough (formerly Northamptonshire). For about a decade they were two counties, then merged to one in 1974. Peterborough broke off as unitary in 1998. Peterborough gets the name check because it is the names of the two top level councils I suppose (and to make it more palatable to peterboughites). Some in Cambridge wish to bring back the old much smaller Cambridgeshire boundary to escape from the ever-tory flatlands to the north.
As a child of the North East; whilst Gateshead is a town in its own right, I doubt there'd be many that take issue with it being lumped in with Newcastle as a unitary authority. The problem always comes with the border between Gateshead and S(cum)underland - there are a lot of people in South Shields (undeniably on the Tyne) who proudly wear a red and white shirt. God only knows why.
Surely the only interesting thing to say about the North of Tyne Combined Authority is that it includes the Hexham and Prudhoe area of Northumberland that is south of the River Tyne
Think the reason Peterborough gets a name check but Huntingdonshire doesn't is that Huntingdonshire is part of Cambridgeshire county council, whereas Peterborough is its own unitary authority...despite still being part of the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire. Someone really needs to do a tidying up exercise on English local government. It's a confusing mess.