In collating the data for the virtual challenge, I created a list of all counties along the route and how many miles we cover in each. In doing so I discovered that the concept of a County is not quite as simple as I thought. There are the historic counties that have changed over time (including going out of existence) and administrative counties which may, or may not, be focused purely on a large city. Historic and administrative counties may also be used interchangeably, at least from what I can tell. I’m mostly confused.

All that said, here’s the route based (from what I can tell) on “historic” counties:

County	Total	Running Total
Cornwall	71	71
Devon	53	124
Somerset	53	177
Wiltshire	24	201
Gloucstershire	15	216
Oxfordshire	41	257
Warickshire (with a dip into and out of the West Midlands)	37	294
Staffordshire	43	337
Cheshire	32	369
Lancashire	52	421
Cumbria	66	487
Dumfries and Galloway	37	524
Scottish Borders	39	563
West Lothian	4	567
Edinburgh	8	575
Fife	15	590
Perthshire and Kinross	72	662
Highland	199	861

I also discovered that my knowledge of county locations is dreadful. So, feel free to review the map below and see how many you can name.

Answers can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_England

To close, I’d like to announce that Chris is now in Somerset.

Keep up the good work, there’s a long way to go!