| By 1986 he was selected for the county team and playing at Super League level. |
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| The modern preserved county of Gwynedd and principal area of Gwynedd are both somewhat smaller. |
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| Even in 2011, one or two successful county players have been shown up as physically unfit for international cricket. |
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| When the West Riding County Council was formed in 1889, Huddersfield became a county borough, exempt from county council control. |
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| In addition, the county serves as the local government for all unincorporated areas. |
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| In 1974 it was merged with the county borough of Swansea, to form the Swansea district. |
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| A particular form of The Loyal Toast, 'The Queen, Duke of Lancaster' is in regular use in the county palatine. |
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| There are eighteen professional county clubs, seventeen of them in England and one in Wales. |
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| In each case, the county had played an unregistered player in one match, and all points awarded in that match were deducted. |
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| His father, Phil, was a rugby player and cricketer, and his mother, Philippa, played squash at county level. |
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| Generally, one of the more powerful local lords in each county was appointed and the office became hereditary in his family. |
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| Constituencies are an electoral subdivision, with each county comprising a whole number of constituencies. |
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| The other areas in the ceremonial county fall within the police area of the Cleveland Police. |
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| In the extreme east of the metropolitan county there are younger deposits of magnesian limestone. |
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| The county has a number of private and public golf courses, including the Church Stretton Golf Club, situated on the slopes of the Long Mynd. |
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| The High Sheriff is an ancient county officer, but is now a largely ceremonial post. |
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| However, Bath was made a county borough in 1889, independent of the newly created administrative county and Somerset County Council. |
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| They also organise county darts for their 66 county members in the UK including individual and team events. |
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| This clearly implies that Kent was considered to be the champion county at that time. |
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| The county championship works on a points system, the winner being the team with most points in the first division. |
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| The name may have arisen from a need to match the status of Norfolk as a county rather than a city. |
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| Like all county clubs, Yorkshire relies heavily on sponsorship and numerous companies have formed deals with the club over many years. |
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| It was the first time that Ireland had bowled out a county for less than a hundred. |
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| The Court of Appeal hears appeals from the Crown Court, High Court, county courts, courts of summary jurisdiction and tribunals. |
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| Leicester became a county borough in 1889, although it was abolished with the rest in 1974 as part of the Local Government Act. |
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| In 1907, Cornwall won the county tournament and went on to represent Britain at Rugby union at the 1908 Summer Olympics. |
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| It should be noted, however, that burghs were largely outside the jurisdiction of county authorities. |
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| The ceremonial county of Durham is administered by four unitary authorities. |
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| Not included were the county boroughs of Gateshead, South Shields and Sunderland. |
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| In 1986, throughout England the metropolitan county councils were abolished. |
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| When a county council for the county was first established in 1889, it was called Salop County Council. |
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| The three train operating companies working in the county are London Midland, Arriva Trains Wales and Virgin Trains. |
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| During the 20th century, the county became increasingly urbanised, particularly the southern part. |
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| While the administrative boundaries changed in the 1970s, the county palatine boundaries remain the same as the historic boundaries. |
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| The Red Rose of Lancaster is the county flower found on the county's heraldic badge and flag. |
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| The wall fascinated John Speed, who published a set of maps of England and Wales by county at the start of the 17th century. |
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| Scoring the matchwinning goal in the county soccer derby made him the town's hero. |
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| A library can serve only their city, however, if they are not a member of the county public library system. |
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| However, the county was dissolved in 1998, resulting in the return of Herefordshire and Worcestershire as counties. |
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| It is difficult to know when the concept of a county championship originated. |
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| The most successful county teams were Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. |
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| Webber acknowledges the difficulties posed from 1873 to 1890 by varying programmes with some county clubs playing many more matches than others. |
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| The Park Authority Committee consists of members from parish and county councils, and six appointed by the Secretary of State. |
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| The county offers Peak District scenery such as Mam Tor and Kinder Scout, and more metropolitan attractions such as Bakewell, Buxton and Derby. |
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| By this time, there were several cricketers with good reputations and the county team was one of the strongest in England. |
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| As with all county cricket clubs, Yorkshire CCC represents the historic county and not any modern or current administrative unit. |
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| This Order established Herefordshire as a unitary authority on 1 April 1998, combining county and district functions into a single council. |
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| Edgmond is a village in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. |
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| It is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent. |
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| The county borough of Newport was granted city status in 2002 to mark Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee. |
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| The college also works in partnership with schools across the county to provide vocational training opportunities for students aged 14 upwards. |
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| The lawsuit further claims Galveston county has the worst air quality in the United States due to BP's violations of air pollution laws. |
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| Leicestershire County Cricket Club plays in the second tier of the county championship. |
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| They are also found commonly in the historic county of Cumberland and bordering areas of Northumberland. |
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| Malta was declared a county and a marquisate, but its trade was totally ruined. |
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| Nearly half of all Gaelic speakers in the county live in Thurso civil parish. |
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| County Councils and county boroughs were designated as local health authorities. |
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| The lieutenancy area and registration county of Moray cover smaller areas that are similar to the old county. |
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| In 1614 a bill was introduced in parliament for securing representation to the county and city of Durham and the borough of Barnard Castle. |
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| Most of the county came under control of the newly formed Durham County Council in an area known as an administrative county. |
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| This is home to rare plants, such as the Cornish Heath, which has been adopted as the county flower. |
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| Since the Local Government Act 1972, some settlements within the historic county boundaries now lie within other administrative counties. |
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| They settled throughout the county with forts built near Brough in the Hope Valley and near Glossop. |
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| Salop however is also used as an alternative name for the county town, Shrewsbury, which also shares the motto of Floreat Salopia. |
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| The present day ceremonial county boundary is almost the same as the historic one. |
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| The only Met Office weather station in the county is located at Shawbury, which is in the north, between Shrewsbury and Market Drayton. |
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| The county palatine boundaries remain the same including the appointment of lords lieutenant in Greater Manchester and Merseyside. |
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| The county was divided into hundreds, Amounderness, Blackburn, Leyland, Lonsdale, Salford and West Derby. |
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| Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen are unitary authorities do not come under county council control. |
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| To the west of the county are the West Lancashire Coastal Plain and the Fylde coastal plain north of the Ribble Estuary. |
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| The term county council is sometimes used in English for regional municipal bodies in other countries. |
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| The M58 crosses the southernmost part of the county from the M6 near Wigan to Liverpool via Skelmersdale. |
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| The local school boards that they largely controlled were abolished and replaced by county governments that were usually controlled by Anglicans. |
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| If authentic, this is the earliest known mention of cricket in the county of Hampshire. |
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| Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England, situated on a bend of the River Avon. |
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| Filmer was investigated by the county committee on suspicion of supporting the King though no firm evidence was uncovered. |
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| The county has over twenty folk clubs and other venues hosting folk music by organisations such as Acoustic Sussex. |
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| It then flows through Shropshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, with the county towns of Shrewsbury, Worcester and Gloucester on its banks. |
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| In consequence, it seems probable that the Robin Hood legend actually originates from the county of Yorkshire. |
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| The county of Derbyshire has many attractions for both tourists and local people. |
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| In English folklore, Herne the Hunter is a ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park in the English county of Berkshire. |
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| In the early 1960s, English county cricket teams began playing a shortened version of cricket which only lasted for one day. |
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| It has a county council based in Matlock and eight district councils and since 1997, a unitary authority area of the City of Derby. |
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| The county has numerous rugby union clubs, including Derby, Matlock, Ilkeston, Ashbourne, Bakewell and Amber Valley. |
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| There are several towns in the county with Derby being the largest and most populous. |
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| The middle years of the 19th century are the period of county club formation. |
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| As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose the Jacob's Ladder as the county flower. |
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| The county also has prosperous high technology, service and tourism sectors. |
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| The County is served by BBC North East and Cumbria, and for more southerly parts of the county BBC Yorkshire. |
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| Passenger services on the ECML within the county are operated by Virgin Trains East Coast, TransPennine Express and Grand Central. |
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| Lancaster was also given palatinate status for the county of Lancashire, which entailed a separate administration independent of the crown. |
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| On 7 March 1861, during a meeting at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield, a Match Fund Committee was established to run Yorkshire county matches. |
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| In September 2006, an unofficial county flag was introduced, largely on the initiative of BBC Radio Derby. |
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| Only players who had received their county cap were allowed to wear the badge. |
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| West Yorkshire does not have a county council, so Leeds City Council is the primary provider of local government services. |
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| As a result of the legislation, Scotland had 22 burgh constituencies, 32 county constituencies and two university constituencies. |
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| In 1889, the city became a county borough as did many larger Lancashire towns, and therefore not governed by Lancashire County Council. |
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| A district committee of the county councillors elected for the area were an independent local council for some administrative purposes. |
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| As a result of the legislation, there were 21 burgh constituencies and 30 county constituencies. |
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| When a county council was formed for the riding in 1889, Leeds was excluded from its area of responsibility and formed a county borough. |
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| Many cities have ordinary district councils, which share power with county councils. |
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| A burgh constituency is now one with a predominantly urban electorate, and a county constituency is one with more than a token rural electorate. |
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| The county boundaries still appear on Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland Maps and the Phillips Street Atlases, among others. |
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| Within those entities are the large and small cities or towns, which may or may not be the county seat. |
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| All of these camps are in the county of Shropshire but there was another significant settlement at the Breiddin hillfort in Powys. |
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| They are officially used while applying for an Irish passport, which requires one to state one's county of birth. |
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| Although there is no county council in Berkshire, these six unitary authorities comprise the ceremonial county of Berkshire. |
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| By traditional definitions, Derby is the county town of Derbyshire, although Derbyshire's administrative centre has in recent years been Matlock. |
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| It has therefore issued county court proceedings against party leader Nick Griffin and two other officials. |
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| In Wales the councils of the counties and county boroughs are responsible for education. |
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| Scottish county councils also differed from those in England and Wales as they were required to divide their county into districts. |
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| One area, the county borough of Southport, was added to Merseyside in the Bill, at the local council's request. |
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| In 1794 he was elected High Sheriff of Staffordshire, his county of residence. |
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| The land use is predominantly agricultural and the county is well known for its fruit and cider production, and the Hereford cattle breed. |
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| The creation of the Irish Free State in the following year saw the remaining county lieutenancies in Ireland abolished. |
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| The county councils of these were abolished in 1986, but the counties themselves still exist legally. |
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| Its proposal for the West Midlands conurbation preferred instead an area of contiguous county boroughs with no overall metropolitan authority. |
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| A process of consultation between county councils and officials from the Scottish Office was begun to affect the amalgamations. |
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| The Welsh unitary county covering the part of Gwent next to Herefordshire is Monmouthshire. |
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| Some counties were based on areas surrounding large county boroughs or were formed by the mergers of smaller counties. |
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| After the Restoration of 1660 the county and city returned two members each. |
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| At a county level, the Local Government Act 1888 reorganised local government throughout England and Wales. |
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| There was a slightly different division of powers between county and district councils, however. |
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| The post of county alderman was abolished, and the entire council was thereafter directly elected every four years. |
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| Like the county councils introduced in England at the same time, the whole council was elected every four years. |
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| The Isles of Scilly form part of the ceremonial county of Cornwall and have, at times, been served by the same county administration. |
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| At other times of the year, the county fairgrounds are used for a variety of events, such as revival meetings and high-school graduations. |
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| On the other hand, large burghs became independent of the county for most purposes. |
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| The county is on the western edge of England which has been historically pastoral as opposed to the east which was more arable. |
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| Shropshire Council was created in 2009, a unitary authority taking over from the previous county council and five district councils. |
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| Historical subdivisions of Scotland included the mormaerdom, stewartry, earldom, burgh, parish, county and regions and districts. |
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| The old county courts' divorce and family jurisdiction was passed on 22 April 2014 to the unified Family Court. |
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| A competition in 2002 named the pyramidal orchid as the Isle of Wight's county flower. |
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| The listing for each county gives the holdings of each landholder, grouped by owners. |
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| The county councils also gained the duties of the abolished education authorities. |
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| The county contained several mill towns and the collieries of the Lancashire Coalfield. |
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| In Cumbria the M6 runs all the way down the east of the county connecting the very north of England to the Lancashire border. |
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| Moving further north, Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire. |
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| On 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the administrative county was abolished, as were the county boroughs. |
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| The county town of Chester is served by the A55, A483 and A494 roads amongst others. |
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| The Lancashire Constabulary covers the shire county and the unitary authorities. |
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| Other parts of the historic county of Yorkshire are also in other official regions. |
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| Norman settlements were characterised by the establishment of baronies, manors, towns and the seeds of the modern county system. |
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| The county has also produced a set of Yorkshire colloquialisms, which are in use in the county. |
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| No part of Greater London was to form part of any administrative county, county district or parish. |
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| The city of Derby is a unitary authority area, but remains part of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. |
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| The City is England's smallest ceremonial county by area and population, and the fourth most densely populated. |
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| Additionally, the King and government are represented in every county by a fylkesmann, who effectively acts as a Governor. |
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| The flag of County Durham since 2013 features the Cross of St Cuthbert, counterchanged on the county colours of blue and gold. |
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| The large county boroughs provided all local government services and held the powers usually invested in county councils. |
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| The four tiers of road routes are national, county, municipal and private, with national and primary county roads numbered en route. |
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| Anyone crossing the lake from east to west on the Windermere Ferry thus travels from the historic county of Westmorland to that of Lancashire. |
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| Liverpool historically lay within the ancient hundred of West Derby in the south west of the county of Lancashire. |
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| That is what prompted him to write the county land agent to find what properties were available. |
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| His marriage in the 1050s to Matilda of Flanders provided him with a powerful ally in the neighbouring county of Flanders. |
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| The landowning citizens of the county will object to the increased property tax, but those who rent won't care. |
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| Windsor Castle is a royal residence at Windsor in the English county of Berkshire. |
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| National and county roads are managed by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. |
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| It is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and the historic county of Perthshire. |
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| The new district combined in one area the royal burgh, the Inverness district of the county and the Aird district of the county. |
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| The rest of the county was divided between other new districts within the Highland region and the Western Isles. |
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| Following the Norman Conquest, much of the county was subject to the forest laws. |
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| As created in 1918, Inverness covered the county minus Outer Hebridean areas, which were merged into the Western Isles constituency. |
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| Caithness has a land boundary with the historic county of Sutherland and is otherwise bounded by sea. |
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| Louis residents as fireworks are illegal within both city and county limits. |
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| When created, the district included the whole of the county plus Tongue and Farr areas of the neighbouring county of Sutherland. |
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| In the United States, the laws governing consumer fireworks vary widely from state to state, or from county to county. |
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| The rest of the county was bestowed upon Henry de Ferrers, a part of it becoming Duffield Frith. |
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| The main rivers in the county are the River Derwent and the River Dove which both join the River Trent in the south. |
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| Both sites lie in the historical province of Gowrie, as well as the old county of Perthshire. |
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| Dumfries was a civil parish and became the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire. |
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| Dumfries has a long history as a county town, and as the market town of a surrounding rural hinterland. |
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| John Knox was born sometime between 1505 and 1515 in or near Haddington, the county town of East Lothian. |
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| But there was often a crossover between town and county with some strong local clubs tending at times to represent a whole county. |
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| The town of Berwick was a county corporate for most purposes from 1482, up until 1885, when it was fully incorporated into Northumberland. |
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| It linked Islandshire on the south bank of the River Tweed with the county burgh of Berwick on the north bank. |
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| During periods of Scottish administration Berwick was the county town of Berwickshire, to which the town gave its name. |
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| This Act established a uniform system of county councils and town councils in Scotland and restructured many of Scotland's counties. |
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| Between 1890 and 1975, Argyll was an administrative county with a county council. |
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| Renfrewshire and Ayrshire are on the other side of the Firth of Clyde, while Bute was a county comprising the islands in the firth. |
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| The county town of Argyll was historically Inveraray, which is still the seat of the Duke of Argyll. |
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| Lochgilphead later claimed to be the county town, as the seat of local government for the county from the 19th century. |
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| York railway station is the largest station in the county with 11 platforms and is a major tourist attraction in its own right. |
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| The new county comprised the Earldom of Sutherland along with Assynt and the baronies between Ross and Caithness. |
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| Following the unsuccessful Jacobite Rising of 1745 the government took the opportunity of overhauling county government. |
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| Before he became a monk, Simon handed his county of the Vexin over to King Philip. |
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| In 1337, Philip VI confiscated the English king's duchy of Aquitaine and the county of Ponthieu. |
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| Each county should have a committee of three men who could hear complaints about violations of the Charters. |
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| The Northumberland National Park takes its name from the English county of Northumberland. |
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| Previously, all but the Peak District and the Lake District were governed by the local county councils. |
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| In 1628 he was elected to Parliament from the Huntingdonshire county town of Huntingdon. |
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| The last three had been the largest county boroughs outside the London area without city status. |
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| Cromwell was named a Justice of the Peace for Hampshire and sat on various county committees. |
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| Before joining Parliament's forces Cromwell's only military experience was in the trained bands, the local county militia. |
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| The name of the county comes from the city of Derry, which originally in Irish was known as Doire meaning oak. |
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| In 1889, when county councils were created in England, the municipal borough became a county borough with even greater autonomy. |
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| The county of Essex by itself forms a NUTS 2 statistical unit in the East of England region. |
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| From a very early time, the township of Manchester lay within the historic or ceremonial county boundaries of Lancashire. |
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| Counties with greater populations have multiple constituencies, some of more than one county, but generally do not cross county boundaries. |
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| Major precepting authorities such as the Greater London Authority and county councils cover areas that are larger than billing authorities. |
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| On 1 April 1974, the city council was abolished, becoming part of the Borough of Medway, a local government district in the county of Kent. |
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| In addition to Manchester itself, the LUZ includes the remainder of the county of Greater Manchester. |
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| Southern Ireland included County Donegal, despite it being the largest county in Ulster and the most northerly county in all of Ireland. |
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| Similar arrangements exist in Berkshire, where the county council has been abolished. |
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| The WBA organise competitions, including the county championship, and select and manage the national side. |
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| The Parliament of England legislated the new uniform county franchise, in the statute 8 Hen. |
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| Whereas Ireland had only one match guaranteed in the tournament before, they now had more fixtures against English county sides. |
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| Each constituency was entirely within a county or a grouping of two or three counties. |
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| Scotland had 32 burgh constituencies, 38 county constituencies and one university constituency. |
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| In Scotland, as a result of the legislation, there were 32 burgh constituencies, 37 county constituencies and two university constituencies. |
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| Rutland and the Isle of Wight do not have county clubs and are wholly integrated for that purpose with Leicestershire and Hampshire respectively. |
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| The sheriff dispensed the King's justice in his county in the Sheriff Court. |
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| Cumberland and Westmorland originally shared Cumberland County Cricket Club as a joint county club. |
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| In the 2013 local elections, UKIP won 147 seats and established itself as the largest opposition party in six English county councils. |
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| The Crown Court and a county court may sit in the same building and use the same jurors. |
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| Players play for local clubs with the best being selected for their county teams. |
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| The Cardiff Urban Area covers a slightly larger area outside the county boundary, and includes the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth. |
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| Section 42 replaced the Mayor's and City of London Court with a county court of the same name. |
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| In 1536, the Act of Union between England and Wales led to the creation of the shire of Glamorgan, and Cardiff was made the county town. |
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| It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, of which it was traditionally the county town. |
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| For ceremonial purposes, unitary authorities are considered to be part of the county to which they formerly belonged. |
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| Despite no longer having county councils the metropolitan counties still legally exist, and are each a ceremonial county. |
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| Also in 2009, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire county councils changed control from Labour to Conservative. |
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| The Local Government Act 1888 established county councils to assume the administrative functions of Quarter Sessions in the counties. |
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| In 2010 Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly had the lowest GVA per head of any county or unitary authority in England. |
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| At county level, the least deprived areas, in descending order, were Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Solihull, Staffordshire, and Shropshire. |
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| The Act further stipulated that areas that were part of an administrative county would be part of the county for all purposes. |
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| The one exception was County Tipperary, which although administered by two county councils, was to remain united for lieutenancy. |
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| Humberside was split between Lincolnshire and a new ceremonial county of East Riding of Yorkshire. |
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| In 1974, administrative counties and county boroughs were abolished, and a major reform was instituted. |
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| Hinduism and Buddhism each have about 5,000 adherents in Wales, with the rural county of Ceredigion being the centre of Welsh Buddhism. |
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| Appointments to the county bench of magistrates were usually made on the recommendation of the lieutenant. |
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| The local government's duties are commonly split between county and municipal governments. |
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| Ceremonial counties may comprise combinations of county council areas and unitary authorities. |
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| The earliest boroughs were chosen in the Middle Ages by county sheriffs, and even a village might be deemed a borough. |
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| Sometimes shire county is used to exclude Berkshire, because it has no county council. |
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| Statutes passed in 1430 and 1432, during the reign of Henry VI, standardised property qualifications for county voters. |
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| Though governed by the same council, each county remained nominally independent from the other. |
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| In Scotland control of county administration was in the hands of Commissioners of Supply. |
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| In the majority of unitary authorities an existing district council took over powers from the county council. |
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| Furthermore, the sizes of the individual county constituencies varied significantly. |
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| The new districts replaced the previous system of county boroughs, municipal boroughs, urban and rural districts. |
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| The Local Government Act 1929 considerably increased the powers of county councils, who took charge of highways in rural districts. |
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| However this did not change the name of the county which had the same area. |
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| Instead, they modified the proposal so that two further seats were given to Yorkshire, the county in which Leeds is situated. |
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| Following local government reforms in the 1970s, county councils no longer exist in Scotland or Northern Ireland. |
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| Thus 65 new county seats and 65 new borough seats were created in England and Wales. |
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| In 1986 the six metropolitan county councils were abolished, with their functions transferred to the metropolitan boroughs and joint boards. |
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| This led to further acts to reorganise county boundaries in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
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| In the six largest conurbations metropolitan county councils, with increased powers, were created. |
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| In the northern part of the county there are examples of Jurassic, Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic. |
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| The reforms somewhat blurred the distinction between county and district council. |
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| From 1 April 1974 the number of counties and county councils was reduced to eight in number. |
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| Thus the county councils introduced in 1889 were identical to their English counterparts. |
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| Shropshire's county day is on 23 February, the feast day of St Milburga, abbess of Wenlock Priory. |
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| There are many orchards around the county but not as many as there once were. |
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| This section includes the entire North Sea coast of the traditional county of Yorkshire. |
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| Outside the main city of Derby, the largest town in the county is Chesterfield. |
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| With the parishing of the formerly unparished area of Shrewsbury in 2008, the entire ceremonial county is now parished. |
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| In the years following countyhood, the court levied taxes, set salaries for county officials, provided for public safety and regulated morals. |
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| Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands. |
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| Ground zero for U.S. birth tourism appears to be San Gabriel Valley, located in the county of Los Angeles. |
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| In 1998 The Wrekin became a unitary authority, administratively separate from the county council, and became Telford and Wrekin. |
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| There are six metropolitan counties based on the most heavily urbanised areas, which do not have county councils. |
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| There is a professional league championship in which clubs representing 17 English counties and 1 Welsh county compete. |
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| Team members are drawn from the main county sides, and include both English and Welsh players. |
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| Historically, rivers and later canals in the county were used for transport also, although their use in transport is now significantly reduced. |
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| Scilly forms part of the ceremonial county of Cornwall, and some services are combined with those of Cornwall. |
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| However the islands are still considered to be part of the ceremonial county of Cornwall. |
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| This trunk road passes through the centre of the county and is the prime route from London to Edinburgh. |
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| In January 2009, the first general flag for the county was accepted by the Flag Institute. |
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| At county level, before it was split into two, Cheshire was the least deprived, followed by Trafford, and by Warrington and Stockport. |
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| The county town is Lancaster although the county's administrative centre is Preston. |
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| There remains occasional confusion between the Isle of Wight as a county and its former position within Hampshire. |
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| The cities of Limerick and Waterford were merged with their respective county councils in 2014 to form new city and county councils. |
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| The Isle of Wight is the 39th official county in English cricket, and the Isle of Wight Cricket Board organises a league of local clubs. |
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| Typically unitary authorities cover towns or cities which are large enough to function independently of county or other regional administration. |
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| The island has produced some notable cricketers, such as Danny Briggs, who plays county cricket for Hampshire. |
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| There are also several consolidated cities where the county government and municipal government are unified. |
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| The Tyne and Wear Metro is a light rail network which serves the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear. |
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| San Francisco and Philadelphia are two examples, wherein the city and county are coterminous and have one singular governing body. |
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| The A591 road runs from Kendal to the centre of the county connecting Lake District settlements like Windermere, Ambleside and Keswick. |
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| Previously the city was a county of a city and later a district of the Tayside region. |
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| The Irish county councils differed in constitution from those in Great Britain. |
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| The counties and county boroughs continue to exist for the purposes of lieutenancy and shrievalty. |
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| During the Second World War, Yorkshire became an important base for RAF Bomber Command and brought the county into the cutting edge of the war. |
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| Since the advent of universal suffrage, the differences between county and borough constituencies are slight. |
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| In recent years curries have become popular in the county largely due to the immigration and successful integration of Asian families. |
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| Borough constituencies are predominantly urban while county constituencies are predominantly rural. |
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| The M62 motorway crosses the county from east to west from Hull towards Greater Manchester and Merseyside. |
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| Today, Domesday Book is available in numerous editions, usually separated by county and available with other local history resources. |
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| In 1832 the county benefited from the disfranchisement of Grampound by taking an additional two members. |
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| From 1535 each Welsh county and borough was represented, by one knight or burgess. |
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| Yorkshire was represented at this time as one single, large, county constituency. |
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| A county borough was the constituency of a county corporate, combining the franchises of both county and borough. |
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| There were county boroughs, municipal boroughs, urban districts and metropolitan boroughs. |
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| York is the traditional county town of Yorkshire, and therefore did not form part of any of its three historic ridings, or divisions. |
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| The municipality is the traditional county town of Yorkshire to which it gives its name. |
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| The counties are administrated through directly elected county assemblies who elect the County Governor. |
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| Ruabon is within the historic county of Denbighshire and, between 1889 and 1974, was administered by Denbighshire County Council. |
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