Talk:Morayshire

I wonder if anyone can tell me why, on the 'interactive map', someone has clearly taken great trouble to display Cromartyshire accurately (even to the extent of remembering the division of Gruinard Island), but completely left out enormous portions of both Morayshire and Nairnshire (a smaller one of which is in the Black Isle), not to mention the detached portions of Banffshire situate on the East coast; all of these are much bigger than many of the tiny bits of Cromarty that have been included. To whoever is responsible, may I congratulate you on your excellent and painstaking portrayal of Cromartyshire, but also ask if these other Scottish counties could receive similarly accurate treatment? And the ones in England and Wales, too, for that matter. Unfortunately, I have no idea how the map works, or where it gets its data from; but I am very happy to assist in any way I can if someone were to tell me how. 552.08 (talk) 10:22, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

That is a good question. We had a good head-scratch over detached parts and referred to the Association of British Counties and the Historic Counties Trust about areas "locally situate" within a neighbouring county, and how they were considered before 1846. There is another optional layer to switch detached parts on, on the dropdown at the top of the map, which for Moray is here. RB (talk) 11:20, 4 August 2015 (UTC)