Historical and alternative regions of England

These are Dumnonia a Brythonic kingdom, present-day part of South West England.

[3] 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.

The Norse kingdom of Jorvik, also known as Scandinavian Yorkshire was not annexed into England until 1066 and the Royal Harrying of the North.

There were ten regional associations covering England and Wales administered by majors-general.

[6] From the mid-1980s, the eight English Civil Defence Regions were as follows (using 1974/1975 boundaries): The Redcliffe-Maud Report produced by the Royal Commission on local government reform in 1969 recommended the creation of eight provinces.