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Hand-drawn map of Herefordshire by Christopher Saxton in 1576. Herefordshire is one of the 39 historic counties of England. Herefordshire County Council was created in 1889. [8] In 1974, the administrative county formed in 1889 was merged with that of neighbouring Worcestershire to form Hereford and Worcester.
Worcestershire sauce or Worcester sauce [1] (UK: / ˈ w ʊ s t ər (ʃ ər)/ ⓘ WUUST-ər(-shər)) is a fermented liquid condiment invented by pharmacists John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins in the city of Worcester in Worcestershire, England, during the first half of the 19th century.
Fig 14: Map of 'Post-1998' Worcestershire and UK location. Hereford and Worcester County Council ceased to exist on 1 April 1998 [140] and was replaced by the new non-metropolitan, administrative and ceremonial county of Worcestershire. The new county regained its historic border with Herefordshire, which became a unitary authority.
Hereford and Worcester (/ ˈ h ɛr ɪ f ər d ... ˈ w ʊ s t ər / HERR-if-ərd ... WUUST-ər) was an English non-metropolitan county created on 1 April 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 from the areas of the former administrative county of Herefordshire, most of Worcestershire (except Halesowen, Stourbridge and Warley, which became part of the West Midlands [1]) and the county borough of ...
Worcestershire (/ ˈ w ʊ s t ə ʃ ə / ⓘ WUUST-ər-shər, /-ʃ ɪər /-sheer; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.It is bordered by Shropshire, Staffordshire, and the West Midlands county to the north, Warwickshire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south, and Herefordshire to the west.
There are 8 Parliamentary constituencies in the ceremonial counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. From 1974 to 1998 the two counties were administratively and ceremonially one, called Hereford and Worcester , and the constituencies crossed the traditional county boundaries.
The Three Counties of England are traditionally the three agrarian counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. [ citation needed ] Including towns and cities such as Worcester , Gloucester , Cheltenham , Hereford , Leominster , Stourbridge , Evesham , Malvern and Kidderminster , they extend from the southern boundaries of ...
The table contains a list of the 58 principal tripoints for the historic counties of England prior to 1800. [15] As the English county boundaries had remained essentially unchanged since the eleventh century, [16] the list can thus be seen to represent the "original" locations of the English county tripoints.