def simplify_county_names(dframe):
    """
    Removes words 'county' and 'parish' and extra white space
    from county field of a dataframe
    """
    dframe['County'] = dframe['County'].str.replace('County', '')
    dframe['County'] = dframe['County'].str.replace('Parish', '')
    dframe['County'] = dframe['County'].str.strip()
    return dframe