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
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
Domesday Book
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Domesday Book is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by the Lati
Shire
…of Anglo-Saxon settlement, and spread to most of the rest of England in the 10th century, along with the West Saxon kingdom's political domination. In Domesday (1086) the city of York was divided into shires. The first shires of Scotland were created in English-settled areas such as Lothian and the Borders…
Domesday Book: an engraving published in 1900. Great Domesday (the larger volume) and Little Domesday (the smaller volume), in their 1869 bindings, lie on their older "Tudor" bindings.
Great Domesday in its "Tudor" binding: a wood-engraving of the 1860s
The Domesday Chest, the German-style iron-bound chest of c. 1500 in which Domesday Book was kept in the 17th and 18th centuries
Entries for Croydon and Cheam, Surrey, in the 1783 printed edition of Domesday Book