This collection of profiles for English youth hostels is based on historic counties. It is divided into areas with approximate identities:
Peak District (Staffordshire and Derbyshire)
East Midlands (Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Rutland)
West and South Midlands (Shropshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire)
North Home Counties (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire)
East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex)
It coincides fairly closely with the modern English political regions of:
West Midlands
East Midlands
Anglia