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The Shire is an inland area settled exclusively by hobbits, the Shire-folk, largely sheltered from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. It is in the northwest of the continent, in the region of Eriador and the Kingdom of Arnor. The Shire is the scene of action at the beginning and end of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
In Scotland the word "county" was not adopted for the shires. Although "county" appears in some texts, "shire" was the normal name until counties for statutory purposes were created in the 19th century. In Ireland "shire" was not used for the counties. In most cases, the "shire town" is the seat of the shire's government, or was historically.
Those counties named after towns therefore had the same name as the town, but were routinely referred to in legal contexts as the 'shire of X' or 'county of X' in order to distinguish the county from the town. [62] [67] However, in general usage, many of the counties had 'shire' appended to their names, particularly those named after towns.
Recorded as an Anglo-Saxon shire from the time of Athelstan (895–939). Hertfordshire: County of Hertford Herts [92] [93] [94] 35 Anglo-Saxon origins as a shire. Huntingdonshire: County of Huntingdon Hunts [92] [94] 37 Of Danish origin, the shire of Huntingdon was first delimited in Anglo-Saxon times. Kent: 9 The Jutish Kingdom of Kent ...
Inverness-shire (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Nis) or the County of Inverness, is a historic county in Scotland. It is named after Inverness , its largest settlement, which was also the county town .
This is a list of settlements in both the non-metropolitan shire and ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England. Places marked ¹ were in the administrative county of Berkshire before the boundary changes of 1974. They are within the historic county boundaries of Berkshire. See also the list of places transferred from Berkshire to Oxfordshire in ...
Bennington County is a county in the U.S. state of Vermont.As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,347. [1] The shire towns (county seats) are jointly Bennington ("The Southshire") and Manchester ("The Northshire"), [2] and the largest municipality is Bennington.
The shire town (county seat) is Newfane, [3] and the largest municipality is the town of Brattleboro. [4] History.