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  Bristol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For half a millennium it was the second or third largest English city, until the rapid rise of Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham in the Industrial Revolution of the 1780s.
The town of Brycgstow (Old English, "the place at the bridge") was in existence by the beginning of the 11th century, and under Norman rule acquired one of the strongest castles in southern England.
When that county was abolished on April 1, 1996, Bristol returned to its former status of a city and county in itself, becoming one of the newly created unitary authorities.
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 Lincolnshire - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England.
The ceremonial county of Lincolnshire (composed of the 'administrative' counties of Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North-East Lincolnshire) is the second largest of the English counties and one that is predominantly agricultural in character.
Lincolnshire is relatively unusual in the composition of its population, being one of the least ethnically diverse counties of the United Kingdom (98.5 percent of the population describe themselves as "white").
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 England
The English Channel, the Strait of Dover, and the North Sea separate it from the continent of Europe.
Herefordshire and the Isle of Wight have abandoned the two-tier county council–district council structure for a single-tier unitary council.
The counties of Avon, Berkshire, Cleveland, and Humberside were dissolved in the late 1990s into smaller unitary authorities; these and other areas that were administratively part of the remaining counties are now independent local governing authorities.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Wales
Herefordshire is a traditional and ceremonial county and unitary district in the West Midlands region of England in the United Kingdom.
English law is a formal term of art that describes the law for the time being in force in England and Wales.
Wales was considered by the English and later Great Britain and United Kingdom governments to be part of England until 1955, when it proclaimed Cardiff as the capital of Wales.
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 Isle_of_Wight
Until the revival of Rutland in 1997 it was the smallest county in England but it remains, with just one Member of Parliament and 132,731 permanent residents in the 2001 census, the most populated Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom.
The Isle of Wight is a Ceremonial and Administrative county and as it has no district councils (only the county council) it is effectively a Unitary county, though not officially.
As a constituency of the House of Commons it is traditionally a battleground between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
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 Everything about Parish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Parishes of this type are found in England, Ireland, the Channel Islands, the U.S. state of Louisiana (where it is equivalent to a county), Estonia and a number of island nations in the region of the Caribbean.
Counties are also divided into larger subdivisions called baronies, which are made up of a number of parishes or parts of parishes.
The first, presbyteros (πρεσβυτερος), Latin presbyter, is traditionally translated priest and the English word priest is indeed etymologically derived from this word; literally, it means elder, and is used in neutral and non-religious contexts in Greek to refer to seniority or relative age.
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 City of Hereford
In 1974 the former counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire were amalgamated to form Hereford and Worcester County Council.
From the 1st April 1998 a new unitary authority for Herefordshire and a county council for Worcestershire replaced the former body.
The new Herefordshire Council incorporates the former district councils of South Herefordshire, Leominster and Hereford City.
www.herefordwebpages.co.uk /herefor2.shtml   (1186 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - Wales / Cymru
For use by the WorldGenWeb County Coordinators for Wales, United Kingdom, to discuss the creation of single sources for genealogy databases dealing with their areas and the development of related County web pages.
For place names in England, Wales, and the Isle of Man, this returns their 1891 Census information of County, District, Sub-District, Place, PRO piece number, and LDS Film number.
There are 9 counties, 3 cities & 10 county boroughs, although all have equal status.
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