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Luton

Erm. Why exactly is Luton listed under Cambridgeshire? Lozleader 18:41, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was aiming for Huntingdonshire and missed! There are also a bunch of obselete codes in the 56 and upwards range for the 1974-1996 welsh principal areas that I may add. Morwen - Talk 18:43, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Two-tier counties & districts

Would it be worth expanding:

01-07   obsolete, were Greater London & the metropolitan counties

For completeness (and also to assist with anyone researching how the coding system worked prior to the last lot of reorganisation) -- Ratarsed 13:16, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Super Output Areas

It is a good concept, but why this strange name of "Super Output Areas"? – Kaihsu (talk) 22:12, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article confuses terms. There are lots of Output Areas in England, with, as they say, about 100 households in each. These are then combined to create Lower layer Super Output Areas (often referred to as LSOAs), and there are about 6 OAs in each LSOA. Then Middle layer Super Output Areas (MSOAs) are created by combining about 4 LSOAs. So I guess 'super' basically means combined/bigger.

The later Super Output Section looks OK, but the first section has a one sentence paragraph which is incorrect (OAs don't = SOAs, plus there are 32,482 LSOAs, and and a lot more OAs (I'm not sure how many)) and need changing to reflect this. – C.Heward (talk • contribs) 16:36, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Update with new-style codes

I have created a sortable Wikitable with the new versions of ONS codes (except N. Ireland where the system has not been adopted). To the extent that the ONS codes are used within Wikipedia templates etc, I expect this will continue to be based on the 'old' codes as they are more user friendly, but time will tell. I intend to improve the table when I have some more time, including changing the order of the rows. Any comments welcome. Sussexonian (talk) 11:03, 5 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Query

In the table under "List of current codes" there is a notes column with "NB 1" and "NB 2" but there is no note to indicate what these mean. Keith D (talk) 23:53, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Counties

The "County" column in the list of "List of current codes" table is wrong. Either it should use old traditional counties, or it should use present-day administrative counties. But it is a mix of both. Middlesbrough is in its old traditional county of North Yorkshire, even though it hasn't been part of North Yorkshire County Council since the 1970s. Conversely, Liverpool is in the county of Merseyside, which was only created in the 1970s. I'm going to change the column to show present-day administrative counties, which means all Unitary Authorities will not have a county. If someone wants to make it entirely old traditional counties (for example Liverpool in Lancashire), I'm content, although I can't wait to see what they do with Bristol. But the current column has to change because it is inconsistent. (Chorleypie (talk) 22:16, 10 August 2012 (UTC))[reply]