Yes and no, mainly it’s anti-Cornish
We do not claim to be a separate country. We are a proud county. The largest (Because Yorkshire is three counties, check it.) and the only county with two coastlines.
Ohhh I like that little factoid.
Obvious when you think about it. But interesting.
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Highland?
Highland (Scottish Gaelic: A’ Ghàidhealtachd , pronounced [ˈkɛːəl̪ˠt̪əxk];[a] Scots: Hieland ) is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in the United Kingdom
how do you define this? it’s a continuous, so if it’s different cardinal directions, then surely Kent (E and S), Gwynedd, (N and W), and the IoW (all of the directions!) can all claim that too?
Devon’s isn’t continuous though, it’s broken by Cornwall
We may be a tad off topic here
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ohhh… sorry - I thought he was talking about Cornwall! I’ve not had enough caffeine this morning…
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English County mind.
Are counties and council areas the exact same thing down there then?
Pretty much, it gets a bit complicated around Bristol, what with Avon nicking bits of Somerset and Gloucestershire, and then splitting up into a load of smaller councils. Cornwall is Cornwall Council, Devon is Devon County Council, Somerset County Council and so on.
Not quite the same thing but when flying this bank holiday I did something I don’t normally do, and was relying purely on SkyDemon (a GPS moving map on an iPad)… Sat on the ground the iPad got a bit hot and shortly after take off it turned itself off and into “recovery mode”…
I had a map in the back, but I hadn’t marked it up. Fortunately I was able to cool the iPad down and get it booted up quickly… and had the map there as a fail safe.
It then got me to thinking, when was the last time I did a really comprehensive cross country using just a map, compass and paper log…
Guess what I’m practising next time.
I can hear my instructor as a voice in my head “Told you not to rely on it!”
The technology is fab… When it works!
Edit to add the point I guess - as in, technology doesn’t always work, best to have several methods old and new!
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Are you sure i wasn’t your instructor 
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… Isle of Wight has one continuous coastline! 
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Most coastlines are continuous 
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englands coast is not continuous nor is Wales or Scotlands 
but the UK’s is
It’s not surprising to hear all the MRT’s saying this…
Just to resurrect this briefly…
I found a tool that can convert a W3W reference into a grid reference - useful one for leaders to have to hand in case they ever receive a location via W3W in an emergency: https://gridreferencefinder.com/
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That’s super useful, thanks! Not very mobile friendly though 
if I get bored and a spare half-hour I’ll make a mobile friendly one…
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fun pub quiz question:
which is the only English county not to have a continuous coastline?
(and why do I specifically say English, and not UK?)