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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.
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 which were used for ...
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 ...
62/km² to 4,806/km². Ceremonial counties, [2] formally known as counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies, [3] are areas of England to which lord-lieutenants are appointed. They are one of the two main legal definitions of the counties of England in modern usage, the other being the counties for the purposes of local government legislation.
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.
Category. : 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.
t. e. Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from soon after the end of Roman Britain until the Norman Conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of England by King Æthelstan (r. 927–939).