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Historic counties of England and Lancashire

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Difference between Historic counties of England and Lancashire

Historic counties of England vs. Lancashire

The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Anglo-Saxons and others. Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

Similarities between Historic counties of England and Lancashire

Historic counties of England and Lancashire have 44 things in common (in Unionpedia): Administrative counties of England, Anglo-Saxons, Association of British Counties, Celtic Britons, Census, Ceremonial counties of England, Cheshire, County borough, County cricket, County palatine, County town, Cumberland, Cumbria, Domesday Book, Flag Institute, Flag of Lancashire, Friends of Real Lancashire, Furness, Greater Manchester, High sheriff, Hundred (county division), Hundreds of Cheshire, Kingdom of Northumbria, Lancashire, Lancashire County Council, Local Government Act 1972, Lord-Lieutenant, Manchester, Merseyside, Metropolitan county, ..., Morecambe Bay, Non-metropolitan county, North Yorkshire, Quarter session, River Mersey, River Ribble, Roman Britain, Todmorden, Victoria County History, Warrington, West Riding of Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Westmorland, Yorkshire. Expand index (14 more) »

Administrative counties of England

Administrative counties were a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government from 1889 to 1974.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Association of British Counties

The Association of British Counties (ABC) is a non-party-political society formed in 1989 by television personality Russell Grant to promote the historic counties of the United Kingdom.

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Celtic Britons

The Britons, also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from the British Iron Age into the Middle Ages, at which point their culture and language diverged into the modern Welsh, Cornish and Bretons (among others).

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Ceremonial counties of England

The ceremonial counties, also referred to as the lieutenancy areas of England, are areas of England to which a Lord Lieutenant is appointed.

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Cheshire

Cheshire (archaically the County Palatine of Chester) is a county in North West England, bordering Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south and Flintshire, Wales and Wrexham county borough to the west.

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County borough

County borough is a term introduced in 1889 in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (excluding Scotland), to refer to a borough or a city independent of county council control.

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County cricket

Inter-county cricket matches are known to have been played since the early 18th century, involving teams that are representative of the historic counties of England and Wales.

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County palatine

In England, a county palatine or palatinate was an area ruled by a hereditary nobleman enjoying special authority and autonomy from the rest of a kingdom or empire.

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County town

A county town in Great Britain or Ireland is usually, but not always, the location of administrative or judicial functions within the county.

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Cumberland

Cumberland is a historic county of North West England that had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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Flag Institute

The Flag Institute is an educational charity headquartered in London, UK.

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Flag of Lancashire

The Lancashire flag is the flag of the historic county of Lancashire.

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Friends of Real Lancashire

The Friends of Real Lancashire (FORL) are a pressure group affiliated to the Association of British Counties calling for the wider recognition of the historic boundaries of Lancashire in England.

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Furness

Furness is a peninsula and region of Cumbria in northwestern England.

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Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2,782,100.

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High sheriff

A high sheriff is a ceremonial officer for each shrieval county of England and Wales and Northern Ireland or the chief sheriff of a number of paid sheriffs in U.S. states who outranks and commands the others in their court-related functions.

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Hundred (county division)

A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.

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Hundreds of Cheshire

The Hundreds of Cheshire, as with other Hundreds in England were the geographic divisions of Cheshire for administrative, military and judicial purposes.

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Kingdom of Northumbria

The Kingdom of Northumbria (Norþanhymbra rīce) was a medieval Anglian kingdom in what is now northern England and south-east Scotland.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Lancashire County Council

Lancashire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire, England.

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Local Government Act 1972

The Local Government Act 1972 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales on 1 April 1974.

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Lord-Lieutenant

The Lord-Lieutenant is the British monarch's personal representative in each county of the United Kingdom.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Merseyside

Merseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1.38 million.

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Metropolitan county

The metropolitan counties are a type of county-level administrative division of England.

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Morecambe Bay

Morecambe Bay is a large estuary in northwest England, just to the south of the Lake District National Park.

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Non-metropolitan county

A non-metropolitan county, or colloquially, shire county, is a county-level entity in England that is not a metropolitan county.

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North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan county (or shire county) and larger ceremonial county in England.

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Quarter session

The courts of quarter sessions or quarter sessions were local courts traditionally held at four set times each year in the Kingdom of England (including Wales) from 1388 until 1707, then in 18th-century Great Britain, in the later United Kingdom, and in other dominions of the British Empire.

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River Mersey

The River Mersey is a river in the North West of England.

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River Ribble

The River Ribble runs through North Yorkshire and Lancashire in Northern England.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain (Britannia or, later, Britanniae, "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD.

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Todmorden

Todmorden (locally or) is a market town and civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.

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Victoria County History

The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History or the VCH, is an English history project which began in 1899 and was dedicated to Queen Victoria with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England.

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Warrington

Warrington is a large town and unitary authority area in Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Mersey, east of Liverpool, and west of Manchester.

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West Riding of Yorkshire

The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England.

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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.

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Westmorland

Westmorland (formerly also spelt Westmoreland;R. Wilkinson The British Isles, Sheet The British Isles. even older spellings are Westmerland and Westmereland) is a historic county in north west England.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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Historic counties of England and Lancashire Comparison

Historic counties of England has 310 relations, while Lancashire has 663. As they have in common 44, the Jaccard index is 4.52% = 44 / (310 + 663).

References

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