Some of those British MP constituency districts are really old

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Wycome: electing MPs 1295 to the present

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wycombe_%28UK_Parliament_constituency%29

[Verily]

Bath, Guildford, Truro and St Austell, Winchester, and Worcester are also that old. I don't know of any others. I don't think any surviving constituency was established before 1295.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Bath, Guildford, Truro and St Austell, Winchester, and Worcester are also that old. I don't know of any others. I don't think any surviving constituency was established before 1295.

Well, the names are that old. The constituencies themselves, generally, aren't.

[Verily]

Bath, Guildford, Truro and St Austell, Winchester, and Worcester are also that old. I don't know of any others. I don't think any surviving constituency was established before 1295.

Well, the names are that old. The constituencies themselves, generally, aren't.

Well, all of those are named after towns, so they must still cover the same general area even if the amount of countryside around the town included has grown or shrunk.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Bath, Guildford, Truro and St Austell, Winchester, and Worcester are also that old. I don't know of any others. I don't think any surviving constituency was established before 1295.

Well, the names are that old. The constituencies themselves, generally, aren't.

Well, all of those are named after towns, so they must still cover the same general area even if the amount of countryside around the town included has grown or shrunk.

True, more or less, of Worcester (though you might think otherwise if after a quick glance at the Worcester boundaries of 1983-1997...) and, presumably, Bath... and maybe Guildford as well? But not the others (the Winchester seat that Labour (!) won in 1945 had more in common with what's now Eastleigh (yeah, that area has moved upmarket a lot since then) than with what's now Winchester).

[minionofmidas]

I posted the whole list a while back. There's quite a few dating to 1295 btw... Carlisle would be one that has probably indeed remained almost the same seat for 700 years.

[Peter]

I don't think any surviving constituency was established before 1295.

Lincoln has had continuous representation under that name since 1265.

True, more or less, of Worcester (though you might think otherwise if after a quick glance at the Worcester boundaries of 1983-1997...) and, presumably, Bath... and maybe Guildford as well?

Have I not ranted about the boundary commission f^^^ing around with Guildford before? I thought I had. Needless to say creating a bottleneck through Surrey countryside to add Cranleigh onto the seat was a particularly bizarre idea (and oddly has no partisan repurcussions as Cranleigh votes roughly the same way as Guildford, though for totally different reasons)