Historic counties of England the Morecambe Bay tidal flats. When the first county councils were set up in 1889, they covered newly created entities known as administrative counties. Several historic subdivisions with separate county administrations were also created administrative counties, particularly the separate ridings of Yorkshire, the separate parts of Lincolnshire, and East and West Sussex. The Local Government Act 1888 also contained wording to create both a new "administrative county" and "county" of London, and to ensure that the county boroughs which were created at the same time continued for non-administrative purposes to be part of the county which they had previously formed
West Kent (UK Parliament constituency) single-member constituencies: Ashford, Dartford, Faversham, Isle of Thanet, Medway, St Augustine's, Sevenoaks and Tunbridge. 1832-1868: The Lathes of Sutton-at-Hone and Aylesford, and the Lower Division of the Lathe of Scray. 1868-1885: The Lathe of Sutton-at-Hone. Filmer's death caused a by-election. Talbot resigned in order to contest the 1878 Oxford University by-election. Legge was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, requiring a by-election. West Kent (UK Parliament constituency) West Kent (formally known as "Kent, Western") was a county constituency in Kent in South East England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the