§ Mr. Hannamasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what are the latest figures for the number of listed buildings of architectural or historic interest in each county of England.
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§ Mr. MacfarlaneOn 30 September 1982 there were 285,483 listed buildings in England. New listings by individual county are not recorded by my Department. The latest available figures are as follows:
Numbers Bedfordshire 2,501 Berkshire 3,236 Buckinghamshire 4,122 Cambridgeshire 4,695 Cheshire 3,863 Cleveland 414 Cornwall 4,908 Cumbria 5,062 Derbyshire 4,532 Devon 11,752 Dorset 8,259 Durham 2,060 East Sussex 6,654 Essex 9,465 Gloucestershire 7,751 Greater London 31,243 Hampshire 6,065 Hereford/Worcester 8,594 Hertfordshire 4,668 Humberside 2,392 Isle of Wight 1,735 Kent 16,638 Lancashire 4,236 Leicestershire 3,456 Lincolnshire 4,111 Merseyside 4,811 Norfolk 7,982 Northamptonshire 2,999 Northumberland 2,264 North Yorkshire 8,404 Nottinghamshire 2,541 Oxfordshire 7,126 Shropshire (Salop) 4,473 Somerset 6,431 South Yorkshire 1,943 Staffordshire 2,989 Suffolk 9,345 Surrey 4,755 Tyne and Wear 2,007 Warwickshire 4,942 West Midlands 2,182 West Sussex 5,957 West Yorkshire 7,250 Wiltshire 9,544 TOTAL 274,022