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Region: South East: Established: Ancient: Time zone: ... It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, ... Hand-drawn map of Kent, Sussex, Surrey ...
Essex 4. Berkshire 5. Middlesex (now part of Greater London) 6. Surrey 7. Kent 8. Sussex. (County of London shown in yellow) The home counties are the counties of England that surround London. The counties are not precisely defined but Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent and Surrey are usually included in definitions as they ...
Essex (/ ˈ ɛ s ɪ k s / ESS-iks) is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the south, Greater London to the south-west, and Hertfordshire to the west.
Geological cross section of Kent, showing how it relates to major towns. Kent is the south-easternmost county in England. It is bounded on the north by the River Thames and the North Sea, and on the south by the Straits of Dover and the English Channel. The continent of Europe is 21 miles across the straits.
Region Strategic authority Ceremonial county Metropolitan or non-metropolitan county Districts May also hold borough and/or city status; East of England: Essex: 1. Thurrock U.A. 2. Southend-on-Sea U.A. 3. Essex †
The counties of England are a type of subdivision of England.Counties have been used as administrative areas in England since Anglo-Saxon times. There are three definitions of county in England: the 48 ceremonial counties used for the purposes of lieutenancy; the 84 metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties for local government; [a] and the 39 historic counties.
The region remained under the control of Caedwalla's successor Ine in the early 8th century. ... Kent, Essex and elsewhere, ... Hand-drawn map of Kent, Sussex, Surrey ...
The regions were numbered as shown in the list, numbers for sub-regions were of the form 1 1. The regions were based on pre-Second World War regions, but were substantially altered in the 1970s, with the merger of South East and Southern regions, and alterations in the north. They were again altered in 1984, to merge the English regions 1 and 2 ...