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By the start of the 14th century the structure of most English towns had changed considerably since the Domesday survey. A number of towns were granted market status and had grown around local trades. [11] Also notable is the reduction in importance of Winchester, the Anglo-Saxon capital city of Wessex.
Each English shire could perhaps be divided into a dozen or more hundreds, which were composed of a hundred hides, generally agreed to be the amount of land required to feed one middle-class family. The English hundreds of the American colonial period were roughly proportional in population and powers to a colonial American county. [2]
The County of the City of Coventry was separated from Warwickshire in 1451, and included an extensive area of countryside surrounding the city. [48] Charters granting separate county status to the cities and boroughs of Chester (1238/9), York (1396), Newcastle upon Tyne (1400) and Kingston-upon-Hull (with the surrounding area of Hullshire) (1440
The jurisdiction of the following courts was transferred to the High Court of Justice by section 16 of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873: . The High Court of Chancery, as a Common Law Court as well as a Court of Equity, including the jurisdiction of the Master of the Rolls, as a Judge or Master of the Court of Chancery, and any jurisdiction exercised by him in relation to the Court of ...
A map of the wards of the City as they were in the late 19th century. The City of London has a different type of ward to those used elsewhere in the country - another remnant of ancient local government found in the "square mile" of the City. The wards are permanent entities that constitute the City and are more than just electoral districts.
The following is a list of historic maps of York: c.1610: John Speed's map [1] 1624: Samuel Parsons' map of Dringhouses [2] c1682: Captain James Archer's Plan of the Greate, Antient & Famous Citty of York [3] 1685: Jacob Richards' Survey of the City of York [4] 1694: Benedict Horsley's Iconography or Ground Plot of ye City of Yorke [1]
The Senior Courts of England and Wales were originally created by the Judicature Acts as the "Supreme Court of Judicature". It was renamed the "Supreme Court of England and Wales" in 1981, [8] and again to the "Senior Courts of England and Wales" by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (to distinguish it from the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom).
Buildings and structures completed in 1600 (2 C, 6 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1601 (2 C, 4 P) Buildings and structures completed in 1602 (2 C, 10 P)