Britain's urban house market may be flat as a pancake, but out in the smarter shires, it's a tale of two very different sorts of properties. |
|
The shires surrounding it should never have been allowed to become dormitory suburbs. |
|
There's even a polite cheer from the family from the shires who are sitting directly behind us in the stalls. |
|
No more tally-ho across the shires then, no more hunting horns skirling across the frosty banks of willows in the winter morning. |
|
Labour will represent the rural shires and the Conservatives can try Sheffield. |
|
The English shires will disappear and another bit of our heritage will be lost. |
|
Unlike the Tories who are a regional party of the English shires, we can truly say we speak for the wider community in Britain. |
|
Chaps who came double-barrelled in girth as well as surname, their powerbases were in the shires and they had had a good war. |
|
True, you will have to charm the decrepit blimps and blue rinses from the shires into voting for you. |
|
Most notable amongst these were the counties or shires which the Normans inherited from the Anglo-Saxons. |
|
A lock-down has banned the movement of citrus plants, fruit and equipment outside the Emerald, Peak Downs, and Bauhinia shires. |
|
But this is what took place two years ago in the heartland of England's shires. |
|
The bushfire season has started early this year and local shires are already in total fire ban status. |
|
In Scotland such shires were administered by a class of ministerial tenants known as thanes. |
|
Other administrative units were devised in due course, such as the shires in England and the themes in Byzantium. |
|
The commissioners were major lay and ecclesiastical lords with only small landholdings in the shires of the circuit. |
|
England was divided into shires, or counties, which were subdivided into hundreds. |
|
A whole new industry was created and the steep sides of the Douro valley terraced and planted to victual the English shires. |
|
But now it had been crushed by the knights of the shires and burgesses in Parliament assembled. |
|
We have a lot of buildings that were built over 100 years ago and cannot compare with the leafy shires. |
|
|
Unsupervised juveniles engaging in anti-social activity has been an ongoing problem for the shires of Irwin and Mullewa. |
|
At the same time Wales was divided into counties or shires, some of which were based on and named after the ancient lordships. |
|
He has managed to replace the image of a gin-soaked colonel in the shires with that of a young father conscientiously carrying out eco-friendly house improvements. |
|
To have the tally-hoes of the English shires coming in droves to Ireland's hunting counties would severely disrupt the relationship between the hunts and the landowners. |
|
He is far from the English shires and urban heartlands that have become cockpits of the revolt against the government's plans for university top-up fees. |
|
The shires are up in arms, with many staging a campaign of passive resistance, only prepared to pay reasonable inflation-linked increases to their bills. |
|
It looks like it's been written by a teenage girl from the shires. |
|
Map of shires and counties of England and Wales at the end of the nineteenth century. |
|
Many of these first pioneers were from Annan, Galloway and other parts of the shires of Dumfries and Kircudbright. |
|
At first, they thought of moving out into one of the shires. |
|
In rural shires some councils need to be given a bit of leeway. |
|
From the battlements, she can look over a bend in the River Thames, across the treetops to Eton College and out over farms, villages and shires of Berks and Bucks. |
|
What is lacking, however, is a map of all the counties and shires across the archipelago, given the number of references to them in Smith's narrative. |
|
In the bar you might find yourself standing next to a TV personality, a Bristol barrister, an Italian actress or land-owning couple from the shires. |
|
Middle England still exists, life goes on in the shires as it has for many centuries, people still work hard, toil the land and protect the countryside. |
|
The first step was to divide the shires into hundreds, a reorganisation which probably occurred during the reigns of Edward the Elder and Athelstan. |
|
The Midland shires and the shires of the south-east Danelaw conformed to the usual English patterns, as did the East-Anglian divisions of Norfolk and Suffolk. |
|
Within a few years, the shires were renamed counties, a system which has remained to the present day. |
|
It's made even worse, since my traditional Conservative family in the shires would look down on arriviste Dai Cameron. |
|
It guards the beginning of a line of communication from ancient times to the early 19th century between the coast of Ardudwy, the Dee valley and the English shires. |
|
|
These shires survived mostly intact until 1974, and even today still largely follow their original boundaries. |
|
Alfred's emergence from his marshland stronghold was part of a carefully planned offensive that entailed raising the fyrds of three shires. |
|
England was divided into shires or counties, which were further divided into either hundreds or wapentakes. |
|
England was divided in shires with sheriffs in each enforcing the common law. |
|
The strongholds of the royalty included the countryside, the shires, and the less economically developed areas of northern and western England. |
|
The organisation of the region remained based on the shires and Church estates, which were largely unchanged throughout the period. |
|
For that purpose Harold had of course to trust to the landfyrd, the militia of the shires. |
|
The shires of England were progressively divided amongst the companions of William I of England, who served as England's new nobility. |
|
Some shires were grouped together into larger units known as earldoms, headed by an ealdorman or earl. |
|
A loose connection between earls and shires remained for a long time after authority had moved over to the sheriffs. |
|
They became earls of Oxford because earls of Essex and of the other nearby shires already existed. |
|
The remaining shires were formed either by the territorial expansion of the Kingdom of Scotland, or by the subdivision of existing sheriffdoms. |
|
Many of the new shires had highly irregular boundaries or detached parts as they united the various possessions of the heritable sheriffs. |
|
The Heritable Jurisdictions Act 1747 revested the government of the shires in the Crown, compensating those office holders who were displaced. |
|
In official documents shires were referred to as the Shire of X, rather than X Shire. |
|
King David I more consistently created shires and appointed sheriffs across lowland shores of Scotland. |
|
By 1634, the entire Colony consisted of eight shires or counties with a total population of approximately 5,000 inhabitants. |
|
From the seventeenth century the shires started to be used for local administration apart from judicial functions. |
|
The settlement was recovered by Edward the Elder the same year, turning it into the centre of one of the new shires, which prospered as a river port and trading centre. |
|
Eight shires were designated, each with its own local officers. |
|
|
Marcher lordships in the Welsh Marches and the successor shires. |
|
Three pairs of shires were represented in alternate Parliaments. |
|
The representation of the burghs and those of the shires and stewartries, by the time of the Union, consisted of 154 Commissioners elected from 99 constituencies. |
|
Likewise, the Pictish shires and thanages, traces of which are found in later times, are thought to have been adopted from their southern neighbours. |
|
However, when the king was merely seeking advice, he often only summoned the nobility and the clergy, sometimes with and sometimes without the knights of the shires. |
|
But Montfort's decision to summon knights of the shires and burgesses to his parliament did mark the irreversible emergence of the landed gentry as a force in politics. |
|
It was during this period that the system of shires was established. |
|
Public opinion against the Treaty as it passed through the Scottish Parliament was voiced through petitions from shires, burghs, presbyteries and parishes. |
|
Although all of England was divided into shires by the time of the Norman conquest, some counties were formed considerably later, up to the 16th century. |
|
Roger of Salisbury began to develop the royal exchequer after 1110, using it to collect and audit revenues from the King's sheriffs in the shires. |
|
Historically, Scotland has been divided into 34 counties or shires. |
|