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www.history.ac.uk /research /victoria-county-history The Victoria History of the Counties of England , commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH , is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England , and was dedicated to Queen Victoria .
The council sought to annex the entire Marston Sicca RD along with the parishes of Admington and Quinton in the neighbouring Campden Rural District. [4] With the coming into force of the Local Government Act 1929 later in the year, county councils gained the power to adjust boundaries by negotiation, subject to ministerial approval.
Coat of Arms of Warwickshire. This is about the history of the County of Warwick situated in the English Midlands.Historically, bounded to the north-west by Staffordshire, by Leicestershire to the north-east, Northamptonshire to the east, Worcestershire to the west, Oxfordshire to the south, Gloucestershire to the south-west, an exclave of Derbyshire to the far north, and less than 400 yards ...
Pillerton Priors or Over Pillerton [1] is a settlement and civil parish 11 miles (18 km) south of Warwick, [2] in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 294. [3] The parish touches Ettington, Oxhill and Pillerton Hersey. [4]
Pillerton Hersey is a village and civil parish about 5.5 miles (9 km) north of Shipston-on-Stour in Warwickshire, England. The village is on a stream that flows northwest to join the River Dene . The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 170.
The first elections to the county council were held in January 1889 and it formally came into being on 1 April 1889. On that day it held its first official meeting at the Shire Hall in Warwick, the courthouse which had served as the meeting place for the quarter sessions which preceded the county council. John Dugdale, the Conservative MP for ...
The Isle of Wight obtained a county council of its own in 1890 and became a full ceremonial county in 1974. Hampshire has in the past been named Southamptonshire and is so recorded in the Commonwealth Instrument of Government, 1653. The name of the administrative county was changed from 'County of Southampton' to 'County of Hampshire' on 1 ...
Warwick (/ ˈ w ɒr ɪ k / WORR-ik) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon.It is 9 miles (14 km) south of Coventry, and 19 miles (31 km) south-east of Birmingham.