Hundred (county division)
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A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, and i
Medieval cantrefi of Wales
Shire
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Shire is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking and Commonwealth countries. It is generally synonymous with county. English counties
Hundred (county division)
…was their more regular use for taxation, and six centuries of taxation returns for the divisions survive to this day. Groupings of divisions, small shires, were used to define parliamentary constituencies from 1832 to 1885. On the redistribution of seats in 1885 a different county subdivision, the petty…
Three Shire Heads bridge, where three shires in England (Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire) meet
Three Shire Stones (with smaller interior engraved stones dated to 1736), in Batheaston, marking where the historic counties of Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Somerset (then Somersetshire) meet
Anglo Saxon Chronicle scire
Anglo Saxon Chronicle scira