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	Shire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shires were controlled by a royal official known as a "shire reeve" or sheriff.
		In Wales, the counties of Merioneth and Glamorgan are occasionally referred to with the "shire" suffix.
		Shire is the most common word in Australia for the smallest local government areas by population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shire (587 words)

	The Shire
		The Shire was a peaceful and bountiful land in Eriador in northwestern Middle-earth.
		The Shire was 40 leagues (120 miles) across from the Far Downs on its western edge to the Brandywine River on the east.
		In 1975, according to Shire records, the Hobbits sent a company of archers to the Battle of Fornost, where the Witch-king of Angmar was defeated and driven from the north.
	www.tuckborough.net /shire.html (2299 words)

	Shire Draft Horse
		The Shire horse, developed in England, traces it's history to the days of the Roman Conquest and is one of the oldest of the well-defined draft breeds.
		The name "Shire" also comes from England, and derives its name from the Saxon word "schyran," which means to shear or divide, hence the name "Shire," that is synonymous with county.
		Shires, in general, were used in the 16th century with paintings dating back to the 15th century that show them in the perfection of form.
	www.shawcreekrockinghorses.com /shire.htm (915 words)

	Breeds of Livestock - Shire Horses
		The origin of the Shire breed is lost in the mists of antiquity, as is the case with many breeds, but we do have a pretty fair notion from whence he cometh.
		The destiny of the Shire and of England is inexorably entwined.
		Big Shire geldings moved the commerce of this most commercial of all nations off the docks and through the streets of her cities.
	www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/horses/shire (846 words)

	Welcome to Dungog Shire Council
		Dungog Shire is in the Hunter Region of NSW and is renowned for its forests, mountains and picturesque river villages.
		The Shire has two principal rivers, the Williams in the east and the Paterson (and its major tributary the Allyn) in the west.
		Tourism is also a focus of Dungog Shire's economy with the National Parks, State Forests, Chichester Dam and the river systems as well as the historic and scenic character of the area providing the major focus for attracting visitors.
	www.dungog.nsw.gov.au (217 words)

	GENTLE GIANT SHIRE HORSES - English Shires
		For the past century Shire horses have delivered beer daily in the city streets of London, and performed agricultural tasks on farms in rural England.
		Shire horses are fl, brown, bay or grey and usually have a blaze and some white markings on their lower legs and feet.
		The Shire horse is primarily used as a draft animal for farm work and advertising in harness on promotional hitches but is also making a name for itself in the sporthorse world as a hunter/jumper when crossbred with thoroughbreds.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/GentleGiantShires (224 words)

	Lingwood Shire Promotions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shire horses are more than just a nostalgic reminder of days gone by.
		The vehicles they pull are kept spotless in their special livery and each shire horse is groomed, plaited and decorated with colourful ribbons...
		The horseman requires that his team of up to six shires are able to work with him in perfect harmony; eager for all the cut and thrust of competition but remaining docile on meeting the public afterwards.
	www.chime.ucl.ac.uk /~rmhiajp/shires/lingwood.htm (232 words)

	Bega, NSW, Australia, Bega Valley Shire Council, Sapphire Coast, South Coast
		Bega Valley Shire is located on the south-eastern coastline of New South Wales and extends from Bermagui in the north to the Victorian border in the south.
		The Shire is the largest local government area in coastal NSW with an area of 6,052 square kilometres and has the longest coastline of any council in NSW.
		The Shire is bounded by the Great Dividing Range to the west and the ocean to the east.
	www.begavalley.nsw.gov.au (154 words)

	Shire Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shires, in general, were used in the 16th century with paintings
		the Shire was improved by the infusion of outside blood at various times in history, notably that of the north German Flemish horses (Belgian) and the horses of Flanders.
		Thus, on April 28, 1885, the American Shire Horse Association was organized.
	www.imh.org /imh/bw/shire.html (913 words)

	Welcome to the Cobar Shire Council Website
		Cobar Shire is situated in the centre of New South Wales at the crossroads of the Barrier Highway and the Kidman Way and has excellent road, rail and air links to most of Australia's capital cities.
		With an area of 44,065 kms2 the Shire is almost the same size as the whole of Tasmania.
		The Shire's prosperity is built around the thriving mining - copper, lead, silver, zinc, gold - and pastoral industries, which are strongly supported by a wide range of attractions and activities, that make it a major tourist destination.
	www.cobar.nsw.gov.au (206 words)

	Black Forest Shires - Fine English Shire Horse Breeders
		Of all the draft breeds we had encountered, the English Shire Horse was the one we fell in love with and chose to breed.
		We are members of the American Shire Horse Association, and the
		Shires horse shire horses draft draught heavy thoroughshire English stallion shire cross sporthorses
	www.blackforestshires.com (342 words)

	Douglas Shire Council Home Page
		The Douglas Shire is a small rural region on the coastline of North East Australia.
		The Shire accommodates a million visitors a year and produces a million tonnes of sugar cane, cattle and a variety of fruit crops.
		The Shire is experiencing rapid growth and incorporates Port Douglas and the Daintree National Park.
	www.dsc.qld.gov.au (222 words)

	Shire of Isenfir - Society for Creative Anachronism
		The Shire of Isenfir is the local group of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) for the central Virginia area, including Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Nelson County, Waynesboro, and Augusta County.
		The SCA is an international, non-profit, educational organization dedicated to the study and selective re-creation of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
		The Shire also maintains an electronic mailing list for group discussions and announcements, which is a fine way to keep informed about the goings-on of the group, as nearly every activity is announced there.
	www.isenfir.org (525 words)

	Shire Horses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shire horses continue to be used in agriculture and timber operations to complement mechanisation.
		The Shire horse is well known for its substance and bone and is widely used in the breeding of the heavier hunter types by crosses and second crosses on Thoroughbred mares.
		Although not normally recognised as a riding horse it was the original charger for the knight in armour purely to carry the large weight.
	www.chime.ucl.ac.uk /%7Ermhiajp/shires/shires.htm (475 words)

	Welcome to the Temora Shire Council
		The Shire is situated approximately 80 km north of Wagga Wagga in the South West (Riverina) area of New South Wales.
		Indeed the Temora Shire Area has shown its resilience in recent times with a growing population in the 2002 census - against the trend for rural areas.
		Temora Shire is however not one dimensional in industrial terms.
	www.temora.nsw.gov.au (356 words)

	The Shire of Harpelestane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Shire of Harpelestane is a branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), which covers the whole of Scotland.
		This "Known World" is divided into kingdoms; regions ruled by a King and Queen selected by combat at a regularly scheduled tournament, where each aspirant to the Crown fights for the honour of crowning his or her consort.
		This is the recognized website for the shire of Harpelestane of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. It is maintained by Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith and hosted by Andrew Waddie.
	www.montgomerie.demon.co.uk (394 words)

	The Shire Horse - Horse and pony breeds with Equiworld - Equestrian Information - The Shire Horse - horses and ponies ...
		The Shire Horse is the most numerous and largest of the heavy horses found in Great Britain.
		The characteristic of the Shire is the nice silky feather on the legs, obtained from crossing with Clydesdales in the early 50's to alleviate the grease problems in the older type Shire.
		The marshy fen counties of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire laid claim to having exerted the earliest beneficial influence upon the breed and it was from these counties that sales were first made for the improvement of the draft horse all over England.
	www.equiworld.net /uk/horsecare/Breeds/shire (711 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Shire
		The name is derived from the River Shire which flows through the length of the vicariate.
		The mission of Shire developed rapidly, owing doubtless to the zeal of the missionaries but also to the sympathy of the numerous population.
		The staff of the mission is composed of 12 missionaries, 9 nuns, and 2 lay brothers.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13759a.htm (630 words)

	The Shire Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the largest horses in the world, the Shire originated in the 'Shires' of England and is a descendant of the Old English Black Horse whose ancestors were the 'great horses' of mediaeval times.
		Despite its great size and strength (an average Shire will weigh 1 tonne and is capable of moving a 5-tonne load) it is the gentlest of beasts and is a good worker in agriculture and as an urban draught horse.
		With the ever increasing mechanization of the twentieth century, the Shire and other heavy breeds, could easily have been allowed to die out, but fortunately there has in recent times been a great revival of interest in these magnificent animals.
	www.angelfire.com /ns/littlehoof/shire.html (167 words)

	The Shire of Castlemere
		The Shire of Castlemere is a chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism, mundanely located in Jacksonville, Florida.
		Shire Meetings are held Thursday nights at 7:30 PM in Room 126, Bldg.
		This is the recognized website for the Shire of Castlemere of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. and is maintained by Ian fitz Patric mka Charles P. Corzine, the Web Minister for the Shire of Castlemere.
	www.castlemere.org (373 words)

	Welcome to Kilkivan Shire
		Kilkivan Shire is a rural shire built on beef cattle and mining.
		The Shire has a population of 3,200 people, with two main townships of Goomeri and Kilkivan as well as Woolooga, Widgee and Tansey.
		Kilkivan Shire is diversifying and growing, giving residents and vistors alike a great place to live, work and play.
	www.kilkivanshire.qld.gov.au (113 words)

	Shire "add" \| newratings.com
		Shares of Shire, a global pharmaceuticals company, are currently trading at 435.8p.
		According to Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein's research note published this morning, Shire anticipates the FDA approval for Fosrenol, for the treatment of end-stage renal disease, in October, followed by the commercial launch in the US markets by December this year.
		According to the analyst, Fosrenol has received a broad labeling approval in Sweden, while Shire anticipates a similar unrestrictive labeling for this drug in the US markets.
	www.newratings.com /analyst_news/article_446427.html (333 words)

	The Shire Calendar
		The calendars of both the Shire and our own Christian Europe make this compromise; though for our European ancestors the Spring equinox, the beginning of their year, was the focus of concern rather than the Summer solstice.
		This would anchor the Shire calendar to the seasons, whose ebb and flow is largely ignored by our synthetic Gregorian calendar (which does not treat as special either solstices, equinoxes, or the cross-quarter days in between).
		This would both reenact the Shire practice — reflecting the Hobbit preference for the sensible observation of rules — and could maintain a stable relationship between Shire and modern dates if Shire leap-years were coordinated with those of our own calendar.
	www.shire-reckoning.com /calendar.html (1195 words)

	search.cpan.org: Date::Tolkien::Shire.pm
		This is an object-oriented module to convert dates into the Shire Calender as presented in the Lord of the Rings by J. Tolkien.
		It includes converting epoch time to the Shire Calendar (you can also get epoch time back), comparison operators, and a method to print a formatted string containing that does something to the effect of on this date in history -- pulling events from the Lord of the Rings.
		Either a new object can be created without setting a specific date (the zero parameter version), or an object can be created and the date set to either a current shire date, or an epoch time such as is returned by the time function.
	search.cpan.org /~tbraun/Date-Tolkien-Shire-1.12/Shire.pm (1363 words)

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		We are the Shire of Deodar, a branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism.
		The SCA is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to the research and re-enactment of the middle ages (from 600-1600AD).
		Whether your interest is caught by fighters in armor, by archers with recurve or cross bows, or by the numerous artisans and craftsmen, you are certain to find someone with whom to share your interests and skills.
	www.geocities.com /shireofdeodar (459 words)

	Encyclopedia of Arda: The Shire
		At the end of the Third Age, the Shire was the most populous country of the Hobbits in the north of Middle-earth.
		It was founded in the middle of the Third Age by the Bree-hobbits Marcho and Blanco, and gifted to them and their followers by King Argeleb II of Arthedain, within whose borders the land lay at that time.
		The Shire was divided into four farthings, North, South, East and West; its chief town was at Michel Delving on the White Downs, in the Westfarthing.
	www.glyphweb.com /arda/s/shire.html (250 words)

	The Shire Of Marion Glen
		Ours is a new shire of the Society for Creative Anachronism, yet we strive like others in Service to the Dream, to research and bring to life some of the more "romantic" aspects of the time between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Age of Enlightenment.
		We have as well joined with several of our sister shires in the group known as the Consortium of the Southern Marches--an extension of our shire's 'family'.
		This is the recognized website for The Shire Of Marion Glen of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.
	www.tbass.com /marionglen (403 words)

	WELCOME TO BOONAH SHIRE IN THE HEART OF THE SCENIC RIM
		THE Boonah Shire is located in the Heart of the Valleys of the Scenic Rim and is one of the most picturesque areas in south-east
		The Shire boasts a full range of recreation and sight seeing activities to suit all tastes, budgets and ages.
		Residents enjoy the relaxed, hospitable lifestyle afforded by the small country towns and villages in the Shire which features fantastic scenery and great outdoors as well as a mix of traditional and alternative forms of rural business and industry.
	www.boonah.qld.gov.au (361 words)

	Atherton Shire Council Online welcomes you to its Tableland Paradise on the Atherton Tablelands
		To travel to Atherton Shire which is 90kms south-west of Cairns in the highlands (and ranges from 500m to 1280m above sea level covering 620km² in area), can be by air (arriving in Cairns), and road.
		The shire's total population of approximately 10,500 people is currently growing at a rate of about 1.9%.
		Atherton Shire Council has now finalised the Draft Cycling and Pedestrian Strategy for the Shire which is now open to public comment.
	www.athertonsc.qld.gov.au (894 words)

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		Rich in cultural heritage and natural beauty the shire is a must see destination for all tourists to explore.
		Johnstone Shire Council would like to advise the public that in the week commencing 3rd October 2005, Council will be installing a roundabout in the intersection of Glady and Lily Streets.
		At its August Meeting Johnstone Shire Council voted to charge for annual registration of all dogs which are kept in residential and rural residential areas, ending free registration renewals for dogs which had been registered before July 2004.
	www.jsc.qld.gov.au (338 words)

	Welcome to Greater Hume Shire Council
		Like the Shire itself the website is undergoing a lot of change.
		Please contact us at one of the Greater Hume Shire Offices if you have any questions or suggestions or use the Make a Request form, at the top left of the screen or the contact us link at the top right of the screen.
		The Shire Community is planning a festival called the "Weekend Wander" in October and November this year.
	www.humeshire.nsw.gov.au (214 words)

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