| County | No of. Entrants |
| Avon | 10 (5 less than last year) |
| Bedfordshire | 9 (4 more than last year) |
| Berkshire | 11 (3 more than last year) |
| Buckinghamshire | 15 (5 more than last year) |
| Cambridgeshire | 12 (1 more than last year) |
| Cheshire | 37 (19 more than last year) |
| Cleveland | 9 (3 less than last year) |
| Cornwall | 15 (5 more than last year) |
| Cumbria | 5 (2 more than year) |
| Derbyshire | 15 (9 less than last year) |
| Devon | 31 (3 more than last year) |
| Dorset | 9 (3 less than last year) |
| Durham | 8 (3 more than last year) |
| East Sussex | 9 (3 more than last year) |
| Essex | 49 (22 more than last year) |
| Gloucestershire | 13 (6 more than last year) |
| Greater London | 46 (10 less than last year) |
| Greater Manchester | 12 (3 less than last year) |
| Hampshire | 32 (5 less than last year) |
| Herefordshire | 4 (2 more than last year) |
| Hertfordshire | 16 (4 more than last year) |
| Humberside | 13 (3 more than last year) |
| Isle of Wight | 3 (1 less than last year) |
| Kent | 43 (3 less than last year) |
| Lancashire | 71 (29 more than last year) |
| Leicestershire | 29 (21 more than last year) |
| Lincolnshire | 12 (1 less than last year) |
| Merseyside | 26 (13 more than last year) |
| Middlesex | 8 (7 less than last year) |
| Norfolk | 21 (3 more than last year) |
| Northants | 21 (11 more than last year) |
| Northumberland | 5 (2 more than last year) |
| North Yorkshire | 20 (5 more than last year) |
| Nottinghamshire | 13 (6 less than last year) |
| Oxfordshire | 11 (1 less than last year) |
| Shropshire | 14 (7 more than last year) |
| Somerset | 10 (1 less than last year) |
| South Yorkshire | 28 (14 more than last year) |
| Staffordshire | 22 (1 more than last year) |
| Suffolk | 12 (same as last year) |
| Surrey | 23 (2 more than last year) |
| Tyne & Wear | 20 (9 more than last year) |
| Warwickshire | 14 (same as last year) |
| West Midlands | 47 (16 more than last year) |
| West Sussex | 12 (3 more than last year) |
| West Yorkshire | 48 (11 more than last year) |
| Wiltshire | 12 (7 more than last year) |
| Worcestershire | 7 (3 more than last year) |
