Historical and alternative regions of England

England is divided into a number of different regional schemes for various purposes. Since the creation of the Government Office Regions in 1994 and their adoption for statistical purposes in 1999, some historical regional schemes have become obsolete. However, many alternative regional designations also exist and continue to be widely used.

Informal and overlapping regional designations are often used to describe areas of England. They include:

In two cases historic counties, long abandoned as units for administrative purposes, have continued to be widely recognised as cultural regions, significant in sport and used by many organisations as regional units.

Britain in Bloom divides England into 12 regions. They are broadly the same as the government office regions, except that Cumbria is a region in itself, and South East England is divided into three – Thames and Chilterns, Southern England and a rump South East England.

The National Trust has 10 regional offices in England. These are

After the end of the Roman occupation of Britain, the area now known as England became divided into seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Wessex . A number of other smaller political divisions and sub-kingdoms existed. The kingdoms were eventually united into the Kingdom of England in a process beginning with Egbert of Wessex in 829 and completed by King Edred in 954.

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