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Home Counties   /hoʊm kˈaʊntiz/   Listen
Home Counties

noun
1.
The English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded.





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"Home Counties" Quotes from Famous Books



... north end of the railway bridge, one turns first to the right and then to the left, and soon after leaving the uninteresting bricks and mortar of the town, one enters some of the most beautiful lanes in the home counties. At the first cross road one turns to the right, and again through an open gate to the left, and thence a field path leads to ...
— What to See in England • Gordon Home
... went over. Huddy's "travelling" theatrical troupe had been paying a round of visits to various towns in the home counties, performing in innyards, barns, any place suitable for the purpose and where no objections were raised by the justices. Actors and actresses were "rogues and vagabonds" when it suited prim puritans to ...
— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce
... ridge between it and Mughar village, the Berks Yeomanry to be kept in support. There seems to be no reason for doubting that Mughar would not have been captured that day but for the extremely brilliant charge of these home counties yeomen. The 155th Brigade was still held fast in that part of the wadi Janus which gave cover south-west and south of Mughar, and after the charge had been completely successful and the yeomanry were working forward ...
— How Jerusalem Was Won - Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine • W.T. Massey


Words linked to "Home Counties" :   United Kingdom, Hertfordshire, county, Kent, surrey, Great Britain, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Essex


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