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Under the Fifth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, the Boundary Commission for England decided to retain 8 constituencies covering the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire for the 2010 election, making minor changes to take account of the separation of the two counties, to realign constituency boundaries with the boundaries ...
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.
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 (/ 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.
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 ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 20:27, 6 November 2009: 251 × 186 (124 KB): Wereon == {{int:filedesc}} == Numbered map of the new Parliamentary constituencies of Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
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.
Three Counties (Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire) The three English agrarian counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire are often grouped as the three counties. Three Counties (Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire) The three English home counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire ...