Dewey Decimal Classification: Table 2 Geographic Areas: Great Britain and Republic of South Africa: Revision of Edition 21 of the Dewey Decimal Classification

Our Anglo‐Saxon ancestors got our administrative boundaries right, and all our tinkering with local government over the last 25 years just proves it. In that time regions have come and gone, along with unitary authorities and new districts, but none of it can disguise the fact that the Saxon county structure established towards the end of the previous millennium was best suited to our geography. The trouble is that each change means alterations, too, in names of administrative authorities, and so in books and other documents which record them, not least of them geographical tables for classification.

So, once again...