Below the regional level, all of England is divided into 48 ceremonial counties.

Large ceremonial counties often correspond to a single police force.

Also at this time, Rutland was restored as a ceremonial county.

It was recommended that ceremonial counties be left untouched in most cases.

Although not actually used in the Act, these areas have come to be known as "ceremonial counties".

The changes caused the ceremonial counties to be defined separately, as they had been before 1974.

This table does not form an extensive list of the settlements in the ceremonial county.

The following are places of interest in the ceremonial county:

Devon has the 19th largest economy in England out of 46 ceremonial counties.

This gave rise to the concept of the 'ceremonial county'.