Chapman Codes
These are the Chapman three-letter codes for Country and County (Pre-1947 counties). If you standardize on using these codes, they will be understood by other genealogists world-wide and will avoid confusion with places outside the UK which may have the same names.
The codes below are only for England. Chapman codes exist for all parts of the UK and Ireland.
| ENG | ENGLAND | LIN | Lincolnshire |
| ...counties... | LND | London (City only) | |
| BDF | Bedfordshire | MDX | Middlesex |
| BRK | Berkshire | NFK | Norfolk |
| BKM | Buckinghamshire | NTH | Northamptonshire |
| CAM | Cambridgeshire | NBL | Northumberland |
| CHS | Cheshire | NTT | Nottinghamshire |
| CON | Cornwall | OXF | Oxfordshire |
| CUL | Cumberland | RUT | Rutland |
| DBY | Derbyshire | SAL | Shropshire |
| DEV | Devon | SOM | Somerset |
| DOR | Dorset | STS | Staffordshire |
| DUR | Durham | SFK | Suffolk |
| ESS | Essex | SRY | Surrey |
| GLS | Gloucestershire | SSX | Sussex |
| HAM | Hampshire | WAR | Warwickshire |
| HEF | Herefordshire | WES | Westmorland |
| HRT | Hertfordshire | WIL | Wiltshire |
| HUN | Huntingdon | WOR | Worcestershire |
| KEN | Kent | YKS | Yorkshire |
| LAN | Lancashire | ERY | Yorkshire - East Riding |
| LEI | Leicestershire | NRY | Yorkshire - North Riding |
| WRY | Yorkshire - West Riding |
Always use a county (shire) code and a country code, as in LIN, ENG.
Last updated on 17-August-2001
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