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Worcestershire was established during the heptarchy, as an administrative and defensive unit in the early tenth century. [1] Its purpose was to take into account and defend the estates within the northern area of the historic See of Worcester, held by the Episcopus Hwicciorum and Worcester Priory, along with the Abbeys of Pershore and Evesham. [2]
Warwickshire (/ ˈ w ɒr ɪ k ʃ ər,-ʃ ɪər / ⓘ; abbreviated Warks) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire to the south, and Worcestershire and the West Midlands county to the west.
The Ordnance Survey Great Britain County Series maps were produced from the 1840s to the 1890s by the Ordnance Survey, with revisions published until the 1940s.The series mapped the counties of Great Britain at both a six inch and twenty-five inch scale with accompanying acreage and land use information.
The Four Shire Stone is a boundary marker that marks the point where the English counties of Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, and Worcestershire once met. Since 1931, when the Worcestershire exclave of Evenlode was transferred to Gloucestershire, only three counties have met at the stone. [1]
Worcestershire (/ ˈ w ʊ s t ər ʃ ər / ⓘ WUUST-ər-shər, /-ʃ ɪər /-sheer; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.It is bordered by Shropshire, Staffordshire, and the West Midlands county to the north, Warwickshire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south, and Herefordshire to the west.
The table contains a list of the 58 principal tripoints for the historic counties of England prior to 1800. [15] As the English county boundaries had remained essentially unchanged since the eleventh century, [16] the list can thus be seen to represent the "original" locations of the English county tripoints.
It thus included much of Warwickshire, and parts of Shropshire, [3] [4] [5] Staffordshire, the West Midlands, and Worcestershire. [6] [7] [8] It is associated with William Shakespeare and is the setting of some of his dramas. The 'forest' did not necessarily denote continuous woodland, "but a large predominantly wooded area with many clearings ...
The parishes of Ilmington, Stretton-on-Fosse, and Whitchurch formed a large exclave of Warwickshire, separated from the main part of the county by an exclave of four Worcestershire parishes. In 1931 the intervening area of Worcestershire was transferred to Warwickshire, so that the three parishes became joined to the rest of the county.