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unusual facts about English county



Bold Heath

Bold Heath is a hamlet (effectively a suburb of Widnes) in the English county of Merseyside.

Kent Glacier

It was named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (1961–62) after the English county and the Dukedom of Kent.


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Adwick

Adwick upon Dearne, village in the English county of South Yorkshire

Alde Valley School

Alde Valley School is a comprehensive school in Leiston in the English county of Suffolk.

Bredenbury, Saskatchewan

It may be of relevance that there is a small parish and village called Bredenbury in the English county of Herefordshire.

Bridgnorth Cliff Railway

The Bridgnorth Cliff Railway, also known as the Bridgnorth Funicular Railway or Castle Hill Railway, is a funicular railway in the town of Bridgnorth in the English county of Shropshire.

Bruton Parish Church

The name of the parish comes from the town of Bruton, in the English county of Somerset, which was the ancestral home to several leading colonial figures, notably Virginia's colonial secretary Thomas Ludwell and the Ludwell family, as well as that of the Royal Governor, Sir William Berkeley.

Calvados

The Conseil General of Calvados and Devon County Council signed a Twinning Charter in 1971 to develop links with the English county of Devon.

Cannon Hall Farm

Cannon Hall Farm is a working farm and tourist attraction close to the village of Cawthorne, near Barnsley in the English county of South Yorkshire.

Charfield railway disaster

The Charfield railway disaster was a fatal train crash which occurred on 13 October 1928 in the village of Charfield in the English county of Gloucestershire.

Chilmark, Massachusetts

Chilmark was named for Chilmark in the English county of Wiltshire, the ancestral home of the family of Governor Thomas Mayhew of Tisbury, Wiltshire, England.

Chronicles of Barsetshire

The Chronicles of Barsetshire (or, in more recent UK usage, the Barchester Chronicles) is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire (located approximately where the real Dorset lies) and its cathedral town of Barchester.

Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Kingswear

The Church of St Thomas of Canterburyis situated in the village of Kingswear in the English county of Devon, it stands in a slightly elevated position at the junction of Higher Street and Church Hill close to the railway station and the Dartmouth Lower Ferry and overlooks the River Dart.

Crowland Abbey

Crowland Abbey (also spelled Croyland Abbey) is a Church of England parish church, formerly part of a Benedictine abbey church, in Crowland in the English county of Lincolnshire.

Daniels Mill

Daniels Mill, Shropshire, a watermill near Bridgnorth in the English county of Shropshire

Edenthorpe

Edenthorpe is a village and civil parish in the east of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in the English county of South Yorkshire.

Elland Upper Edge

Elland Upper Edge is a village on the B6114 road, near the town of Elland, in the Calderdale District, in the English county of West Yorkshire.

Epic Horse

At the time Holmes "had just been on vacation in the English county of Dorset where my imagination had latched on to tales of smugglers and wreckers and beautiful hills overlooking long stretches of stony beach".

Farnborough

Farnborough, Warwickshire, a village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire

Foxhill

Foxhill House: a historic house in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire

Grafham

Grafham Water (a reservoir in the English county of Cambridgeshire)

HMS Northumberland

Eight ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Northumberland after the English county of Northumberland, or the Dukedom of Northumberland.

Humphrey Lyons

Humphrey Lyons was born at St Austins in the English county of Hampshire in 1802, the ninth of twelve sons of John Lyons of Antigua and St Austin's (1760-1816), and Catherine (1763-1803) (née Walrond), daughter of Maine Swete Walrond, 5th Marquis de Vallado.

Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker

The Secret Nuclear Bunker at Kelvedon Hatch, in the Borough of Brentwood in the English county of Essex, is a large underground bunker maintained during the cold war as a potential regional government headquarters.

Kennet Valley Alderwoods

Kennet Valley Alderwoods is a 56.8 hectare (140.35 acre) Site of Special Scientific Interest in the civil parishes of Welford and Speen in the English county of Berkshire, notified in 1997.

Liddesdale

Liddesdale was also an historic district of Scotland, bordering Teviotdale to the east, Annandale to the west and Tweeddale to the north, with the English county of Cumberland across the border to the south.

Malmesbury Hundred

Malmesbury was a hundred of the English county of Wiltshire, lying in the north of the county and centring on the historic borough and market town of Malmesbury.

Maria Ann Smith

Maria Ann Sherwood was baptized on 5 January 1800 in the church of St Peter and St Paul, Peasmarsh in the English county of Sussex.

Matravers

Worth Matravers, village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset

Murder of Brenda Dawn Hirons

Brenda Dawn Hirons was murdered in the village of Bretforton in the English county of Worcestershire on 5 January 1976.

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 in E Minor (1906, rev. 1914) is an orchestral rhapsody by Ralph Vaughan Williams based on folk songs he had collected in the English county of Norfolk, in particular in the port town of King's Lynn and the surrounding region.

Northumberland National Park

The Northumberland National Park covers a large area of Western Northumberland and borders the English county of Cumbria and the Scottish county of The Scottish borders.

Pheleley Priory

Pheleley Priory was a small 12th century priory located in a detached part of Bloxham, near Charlbury, in the English county of Oxfordshire.

Roach River

River Roach, a river that flows entirely through the English county of Essex

Rothamsted

Rothamsted Manor, a former manor near Harpenden in English county of Hertfordshire.

Royal Saxon tomb in Prittlewell

The Royal Saxon tomb in Prittlewell is a high-status Anglo-Saxon tomb excavated at Prittlewell, north of Southend-on-Sea, in the English county of Essex.

Rumburgh Priory

Rumburgh Priory was a Benedictine priory in located in the village of Rumburgh in the English county of Suffolk.

Salisbury Playhouse

Salisbury Playhouse is a theatre in the English county of Wiltshire.

Sandra Lerner

In 1992, through the foundation she shares with Leonard Bosack, she invested money into the restoration of the manor house in the English county of Hampshire owned by Jane Austen's brother, Edward Austen Knight, Chawton House, making it a center for the study of English women's writing.

Shelley, Essex

Shelley is a small urban settlement in the Ongar civil parish of the Epping Forest District, in the English county of Essex.

Sheringham Lifeboat Station

Sheringham Lifeboat Station is an RNLI operated lifeboat station located in the town of Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk.

Starvation

In the English county of Cornwall in 1671, John Trehenban from St Columb Major was condemned to be starved to death in a cage at Castle An Dinas for the murder of two girls.

Stickland

The family surname of Stickland is West Saxon (Wessex) in origin and comes from the English county of Dorset.

Swanborough Hundred

Swanborough was a hundred of the English county of Wiltshire, mostly lying in the centre of the county to the south of the town of Devizes.

Theobalds House

Theobalds Palace (also known as Theobalds House), located in Cedars Park, just outside Cheshunt in the English county of Hertfordshire, was a prominent stately home and (later) royal palace of the 16th and early 17th centuries.

Upperby

Upperby is a suburb of Carlisle, in the City of Carlisle district, in the English county of Cumbria.

Wellworthy Athletic F.C.

Wellworthy Athletic F.C. were a successful works football team based in the New Forest area of the English county of Hampshire.

Whiteknights Park

Whiteknights Park is some two miles south of the centre of the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire.

Wolstonian Stage

The Wolstonian Stage was named after the site of Wolston in the English county of Warwickshire where corresponding deposits were first identified.

Yealands

Yealand Redmayne, a village and civil parish in the English county of Lancashire