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Parish. The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others. They are alternatively known as ancient counties, [ 2 ][ 3 ]traditional counties, [ 4 ]former counties[ 5 ][ 6 ] or simply as ...
The Scottish counties have their origins in the 'sheriffdoms' first created in the reign of Alexander I (1107–24) and extended by David I (1124–53). The sheriff, operating from a royal castle, was the strong hand of the king in his sheriffdom with all embracing duties – judicial, military, financial and administrative.
English county histories. English county histories, in other words historical and topographical (or "chorographical") works concerned with individual ancient counties of England, were produced by antiquarians from the late 16th century onwards. The content was variable: most focused on recording the ownership of estates and the descent of ...
This is a list of the ancient counties of England (excluding Monmouthshire) as recorded by the 1891 census, ordered by their area. Rank. County. Area ( acres) Area (square miles) 1. Yorkshire. 3,882,848. 6,067.
Counties of England established in antiquity. Geographic counties (also known as ceremonial counties) established in antiquity. Establishments: Ancient – 1182 – 1373 – 1889 – 1965 – 1974 – 1996 – 1997 – 1998. Disestablishments: 1572 – 1965 – 1974 – 1996 – 1998.
Lancashire, nicknamed "The Red Rose County" within England, showing ancient extent. Lancashire is a county of England, in the northwest of the country. The county did not exist in 1086, for the Domesday Book, and was apparently first created in 1182, [1] making it one of the youngest of the traditional counties.
Northumbria (/ n ɔːr ˈ θ ʌ m b r i ə /; Old English: Norþanhymbra rīċe [ˈnorˠðɑnˌhymbrɑ ˈriːt͡ʃe]; Latin: Regnum Northanhymbrorum) [2] was an early medieval Anglian kingdom in what is now Northern England and South Scotland
The origin of the division of counties into hundreds is described by the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as "exceedingly obscure".It may once have referred to an area of 100 hides; in early Anglo-Saxon England a hide was the amount of land farmed by and required to support a peasant family, but by the eleventh century in many areas it supported four families. [1]