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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 counties. [7]
The division of England into shires, later known as counties, began in the Kingdom of Wessex in the mid-Saxon period, many of the Wessex shires representing previously independent kingdoms. With the Wessex conquest of Mercia in the 9th and 10th centuries, the system was extended to central England.
Geographic counties (also known as ceremonial counties) established in antiquity. Establishments : Ancient – 1182 – 1373 – 1889 – 1965 – 1974 – 1996 – 1997 – 1998
The Heptarchy is the name for the division of Anglo-Saxon England between the sixth and eighth centuries into petty kingdoms, conventionally the seven kingdoms of East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex, and Wessex.
Blank map showing the historic counties of England and Wales, as defined by the Historic Counties Trust. Date: 25 June 2013: Source: Historic Counties Trust: County boundary data; Ordnance Survey OpenData: Coastline data for Great Britain (from Boundary-Line product) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Coastline data outside of Great ...
Britain in Bloom divides England into 12 regions, bearing a mixture of government regions with some altered names. It also includes Cumbria , Thames-and-Chilterns ( Berkshire , Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire ) and part of south east and south west as South-and-South-West.
This template displays a labelled map of the ceremonial counties of England (or their historical equivalents), with each county name linked to a Wikipedia article or category associated with that county. It is intended to provide a navigation template for family of county-related articles about the same subject matter.
Counties of England and Wales (1894 map) This is a list of the ancient counties of England ... Rank County Area Area (square miles) 1: Yorkshire: