Question: Henry Hill Vale (1831–26 August 1875) was a British architect who was active in North West England, one of how many official regions of England, consists of the five counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside?
Context: Henry Hill Vale (1831–26 August 1875) was a British architect who was active in North West England in the late 19th century.  He was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, into a Warwickshire family, and studied under the Liverpudlian architect Henry Roberts. The North West Enquirer was a short-lived weekly regional tabloid newspaper covering the North West region of England.  Its circulation area encompassed the counties and areas of Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire, as well as parts of Stoke-on-Trent and North Wales.  Its first edition was published on 27 April 2006 and it ran for twenty-one issues, the final edition being published on 14 September. Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is the public body responsible for co-ordinating transport services throughout Greater Manchester, in North West England.  The organisation traces its origins to the Transport Act 1968, when the SELNEC Passenger Transport Executive was established to co-ordinate public transport in and around Manchester.  Between 1974 and 2011, this body was known as the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE), until a reformation of local government arrangements in Greater Manchester granted the body more powers and prompted a corporate rebranding.  The strategies and policies of Transport for Greater Manchester are set by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and its Transport for Greater Manchester Committee. Cheshire is a county in North West England.  In 1974 parts of the historical county of Cheshire were transferred to Greater Manchester and to Merseyside, and parts of the historical county of Lancashire were incorporated into Cheshire, including the towns of Widnes and Warrington.  The unitary authorities of Halton and Warrington were created in 1998, and in 2009 the rest of the county was divided into two further unitary authorities: Cheshire East, and Cheshire West and Chester.  The ceremonial county of Cheshire consists of those four unitary authorities. The North West Counties Football League is a football league in the North West of England, and is known as the Hallmark Security League for sponsorship reasons.  As of 2017–18, the league covers Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, Cumbria, Northern Staffordshire, Northern Shropshire, the far west of West Yorkshire, and the High Peak area of Derbyshire.  In the past, the league has also hosted clubs from North Wales.  The league currently has two divisions: the Premier Division, at level nine in the English football league system, and the First Division at level ten.  The league is a member of the Joint Liaison Council which administers the Northern arm of the National Football System in England. The North West Air Ambulance is the helicopter emergency medical service that covers the North West region of England consisting of the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside.  It is a registered charity. ITV Granada (formerly Granada Television; informally Granada) is the Channel 3 regional service for North West England.  The licence for the region has been held by ITV Broadcasting Limited since November 2008.  It is the largest independent television-franchise producing company in the UK, accounting for 25% of the total broadcasting output of the ITV network.  It had been held by Granada Television, which was founded by Sidney Bernstein and based at Granada Studios on Quay Street in Manchester since its inception.  This was the only surviving company of the original four Independent Television Authority franchisees from 1954; Granada Media Group (parent company of Granada Television) merged with Carlton Communications to form ITV plc in 2004.  It covers Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside, northwestern Derbyshire, part of Cumbria and North Yorkshire.  On 15 July 2009, the Isle of Man was transferred to ITV Granada from ITV Border (even though the Isle of Man is a British Crown Dependency and is not part of the United Kingdom). Arriva North West and Wales was a division of Arriva that operated bus services around North West England and Wales.  It was made up from several previous bus operators including North Western (in Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire), most of MTL North (formerly Merseybus), the Bee Line Buzz Company (in Greater Manchester), and most of what was once Crosville Motor Services (in Cheshire and Wales). Lancashire is a county in North West England.  In 1974 parts of the historic county were divided between Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire and Cumbria, and part of the West Riding of Yorkshire was transferred into the county, creating the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire.  Together with the unitary authorities of Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool it now forms the ceremonial county of Lancashire. North West England, one of nine official regions of England, consists of the five counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.  The North West had a population of 7,052,000 in 2011.  It is the third most populated region in the United Kingdom after the South East and Greater London.
Answer: nine