121 counties have lost a pillar.
Ordnance Survey’s archive records where these 493 pillars stood. The register keeps them rather than dropping them from the count — every one is lit on the map, which is the clearest picture of the loss there is.
- Lost
- 493
- Counties
- 121
- Standing
- 6,064
- All pillars
- 6,557
Counties with a lost pillar, by country. The bar is square-root scaled so smaller counties stay visible; the counts beside it are exact.
England
79 counties and authorities · 387 pillars
- Barnsley49
- Bedford Borough26
- Blackburn with Darwen15
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole18
- Bradford921
- Brighton and Hove29
- Bristol28
- Bury15
- Calderdale117
- Cambridgeshire457
- Central Bedfordshire111
- Cheshire East428
- Cornwall698
- Cumberland987
- Darlington13
- Derby12
- Derbyshire1896
- Devon11201
- Doncaster25
- Dorset794
- Durham967
- East Riding of Yorkshire754
- East Sussex759
- Essex1563
- Gateshead43
- Gloucestershire261
- Greater London424
- Hampshire17113
- Herefordshire271
- Hertfordshire324
- Isle of Wight122
- Kent950
- Kingston upon Hull21
- Kirklees817
- Lancashire398
- Leeds828
- Leicester12
- Leicestershire444
- Lincolnshire15103
- Milton Keynes24
- Newcastle upon Tyne24
- Norfolk657
- North Lincolnshire39
- North Somerset410
- North Tyneside11
- North Yorkshire13188
- Nottinghamshire1558
- Oldham112
- Oxfordshire755
- Plymouth57
- Portsmouth33
- Salford11
- Sandwell12
- Sheffield520
- Shropshire684
- Somerset687
- South Gloucestershire47
- South Tyneside1—
- Southampton21
- Southend-on-Sea31
- Staffordshire1196
- Stoke on Trent32
- Suffolk1451
- Sunderland14
- Surrey639
- Tameside15
- Telford and Wrekin18
- Thurrock12
- Torbay112
- Wakefield818
- Walsall11
- Warrington22
- Warwickshire751
- West Berkshire120
- West Sussex567
- Westmorland and Furness6102
- Wigan1—
- Wiltshire890
- Worcestershire1062
Scotland
25 counties and authorities · 70 pillars
- Aberdeen28
- Aberdeenshire5201
- Angus551
- Argyll and Bute2277
- Dumfries and Galloway3191
- Dundee12
- East Ayrshire229
- East Dunbartonshire210
- East Renfrewshire212
- Edinburgh314
- Falkirk39
- Fife258
- Glasgow38
- Highland10443
- Inverclyde111
- Moray159
- Na h-Eileanan Siar [Western Isles]284
- North Lanarkshire46
- Perth and Kinross4105
- Renfrewshire420
- Scottish Borders2167
- South Ayrshire140
- South Lanarkshire360
- West Dunbartonshire113
- West Lothian215
Wales
17 counties and authorities · 36 pillars
- Anglesey [Sir Fon]121
- Blaenau Gwent12
- Bridgend312
- Caerphilly37
- Cardiff35
- Cardiganshire [Ceredigion]161
- Carmarthenshire [Sir Gaerfyrddin]3102
- Denbighshire [Sir Ddinbych]118
- Flintshire [Sir Fflint]39
- Gwynedd358
- Neath Port Talbot126
- Newport13
- Pembrokeshire [Sir Benfro]166
- Powys3136
- Swansea320
- Torfaen15
- Vale of Glamorgan410