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
Richard Ridings as Silas in "". Ridings voices Daddy Pig in the animated children's series "Peppa Pig", Father Christmas and Boss Dwarf in "Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom", and Grooby in Q Pootle 5. In 2005, he took the lead role in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom "Clement Doesn't Live Here Anymore", playing a sexually obsessed overweight ghost alongside Steve Furst and Amanda Abbington. The second series was transmitted in May, 2007. Ridings has also provided voiceovers in video games, including the voice of Sarge in "Quake III", the Mentor in "Dungeon Keeper" and "Dungeon Keeper 2", Mendechaus in War for the