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Provincial Grand Lodges are administrative subdivision of a Grand Lodge. Under the jurisdiction of the United Grand Lodge of England they are the regional governing bodies of Freemasonry in England, Wales. the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

There are currently 47 Provincial Grand Lodges governed by UGLE, whose boundaries largely correspond to those of the historic counties of England. Each Provincial Grand Lodge is headed by a Provincial Grand Master.

Provincial Grand Lodges
(WITHIN ENGLAND, WALES, THE CHANNEL ISLANDS AND ISLE OF MAN)


 * Bedfordshire Inaugurated: 1885
 * Berkshire Inaugurated: 1773 - then called Berkshire & Buckinghamshire PGL but were divided in 1890
 * Bristol
 * Buckinghamshire Inaugurated: 1890*
 * Cambridgeshire Inaugurated: 1796
 * Cheshire Inaugurated: 1725
 * Cornwall
 * Cumberland and Westmorland Inaugurated: 1860
 * Derbyshire Inaugurated: 1826
 * Devonshire Inaugurated: 1775
 * Dorset Inaugurated: 1780
 * Durham Inaugurated: 1788
 * Essex
 * Gloucestershire
 * Guernsey and Alderney Inaugurated: 1753
 * Hampshire & Isle of Wight Inaugurated: 1767
 * Herefordshire
 * Hertfordshire
 * Isle of Man Inaugurated: 1886
 * Jersey Inaugurated: 1753
 * East Kent 1973# Kent PGL was inaugurated in 1770 and split into East & West Kent in 1973
 * West Kent1973#
 * East Lancashire 1960 before then known as East Lancashire Division since 1826
 * West Lancashire 1960 then known as Lancashire West Division since 1826
 * Leicestershire & Rutland
 * Lincolnshire 1792
 * London is outside the provincial structure being administered by Metropolitan Grand Lodge of London
 * Middlesex
 * Monmouthshire 1753 as Northamptonshire PGL then as combined PGL in 1840
 * Norfolk
 * Northamptonshire & Huntingdonshire 1798
 * Northumberland 1734
 * Nottinghamshire
 * Oxfordshire 1717
 * Shropshire
 * Somerset
 * Staffordshire 1791
 * Suffolk 1772
 * Surrey 1837
 * Sussex
 * North Wales 1727
 * South Wales
 * West Wales
 * Warwickshire Founded: 1728
 * Wiltshire 1775
 * Worcestershire 1847
 * Yorkshire, North & East Ridings 1817
 * Yorkshire, West Riding 1817