非都市郡（英语：non-metropolitan county）是英格兰地区不属于都会郡的一种郡级地域划分。乡郊郡人口一般约在30万到140万之间。语源上，「shire」是来自古英语，「county」则源于法语。而两者组合而成的「shire county」实际上是一个同义反复词汇。

大部分的非都市郡在名称中会以「shire」作后缀，例如Shropshire（什罗普郡）；而有些不含shire后缀的非都市郡，在过去也曾有过含shire的时期，如Devon（德文郡）的旧名Devonshire。

有时非都市郡一词的意思较为狭义，专指拥有双级结构，也就是拥有郡理事会（county council），且下辖多个区理事会（district council）的郡。而某些郡在此定义下会被排除在乡郊郡之外，例如只含单一区（district）的赫里福德郡与罗特兰。

A non-metropolitan county, or shire county, is a county-level entity in England that is not a metropolitan county. The counties typically have populations of 300,000 to 1.4 million. The term shire county is, however, an unofficial usage. Many of the non-metropolitan counties bear historic names and most end in the suffix "-shire" such as Wiltshire or Staffordshire. Of the remainder, some counties had the -shire ending and have lost it over time; such as Devon and Somerset. "Shire county" is, strictly, a dual-language tautology since the French-derived "county" means the same as the older Anglo-Saxon word "shire".