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Today is 27th September 2026 .

Wikishire is where you may find the best of Britain and Ireland.

Wikishire is where you are; whether you are on the Shetland islands or the South Shetland Islands, or the places between, Wikishire is a growing guide on all you need to know about the British and Irish lands.

Tell the world what you love about your home. Each shire, from Kent to Kerry is here, with ever-growing detail; if your town or village is not in Wikishire, or if something important is missed out, then log on, then -

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To begin, you can peruse the list of counties of the UK or Republic of Ireland, or even go directly to a random page! To accompany the encyclopædia we also have an interactive map of the counties of the British Isles. We also have Resources for GIS including KML files and postcode lookup tools.

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Droitwich

Droitwich or Droitwich Spa is a town in Worcestershire, standing on the River Salwarpe.

The town stands above massive deposits of salt, and salt has been extracted here since ancient times. Close by the High Street stands a pump now a monument, to the methods used latterly to pump brine from the ground even right in the middle of town, but its other monument to this industry is in the number of shops which appear all higgledy-piggledy with not a vertical or horizontal line in them: a result of the subsidence of the ground beneath. (Read more)

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