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  • [[File:Essex Hundreds.svg|right|thumb|300px|The Hundreds of Essex]] '''[[Essex]]''' is divided into 19 [[hundred]]s, and in addition are the Liberty of Ha
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  • ...other counties: [[Norfolk]] to the north-east; [[Suffolk]] to the east; [[Essex]] to the south-east; [[Hertfordshire]] and [[Bedfordshire]] to the south-we [[File:Cambridgeshire Hundreds.svg|thumb|250px|The hundreds of Cambridgeshire]]
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  • |name=Essex |map image=Essex Brit Isles Sect 5.svg
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  • ...e Bohun family, as Viscount Hereford, and his grandson, the famous Earl of Essex, was born in the county. Since this date the title of Viscount Hereford has [[File:Herefordshire Hundreds.svg|thumb|200px|The hundreds of Herefordshire]]
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  • ...nd [[Cambridgeshire]] to the north; [[Buckinghamshire]] to the west; and [[Essex]] to the east. ...ty town of Hertford. Hertfordshire is believed to have been part of the [[Essex|Kingdom of the East Saxons]], but was taken into the [[Mercia|Kingdom of th
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  • ...to the west. Northward over the River Thames and its broad estuary lies [[Essex]], linked by one long road bridge and tunnel at [[Dartford]] and at the nor ...he county. ({{kmloutline|Lathes of Kent}}) Each lathe comprises a group of hundreds. The lathes are:
    24 KB (3,668 words) - 14:18, 16 March 2024
  • ...th across the Thames; [[Kent]] lies across the Thames in the south-east; [[Essex]] is to the east, across the Lea; [[Hertfordshire]] is to the north and nor [[File:Middlesex Hundreds.svg|thumb|250px|The Hundreds of Middlesex]]
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  • ...rections. Suffolk's border with [[Essex]] is marked by the [[River Stour, Essex and Suffolk|River Stour]] from [[Haverhill]] near the county's western bord [[File:Suffolk Hundreds.svg|thumb|250px|The hundreds of Suffolk]]
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  • The metropolitan parts of Surrey, in the Brixton, Kingston and Wallington Hundreds, are within the Thames Basin. The soil is largely London clay. The ground ===Hundreds===
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  • | county 2 = Essex ...much of north-eastern [[Surrey]], north-western [[Kent]], south-western [[Essex]] and parts of [[Hertfordshire]].
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  • ...Book is in fact two books; Little Domesday covers the eastern counties, [[Essex]], [[Norfolk]] and [[Suffolk]], while Great Domesday covers the rest of Eng ...these original returns is preserved for several of the [[Cambridgeshire]] Hundreds and is of great illustrative importance. The ''Inquisitio Eliensis'' is a r
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  • ...id=45486 'Greenwich', The Environs of London: volume 4: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent (1796), pp. 426-93] accessed: 26 May 2007</ref> It became known as ' Rowing has been part of life on the river at Greenwich for hundreds of years and the first Greenwich Regatta was held in 1785. The annual Great
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  • The island is surrounded by rocks, which have caused hundreds of wrecks. There are two treacherous tidal streams on either side of the is ...in 1554. Essex Castle perpetuates the name of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, who bought the governorship of Alderney in 1591. Before his execution for
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  • ...]. It is a visually delightful little town and one whose history goes back hundreds of years. The Anglo-Saxons called the place ''Cynebealdstun'' after its fou In 1200, a prominent local landowner, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, Earl of Essex and Chief Justice to King John, who built the first castle on the present s
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  • ...]] in [[Kent]] across the ''Kentish Knock lighthouse'' to [[Harwich]] in [[Essex]]. It is to here that the typical estuarine sandbanks extend. ...famous Thames sailing barge, the distinctive boat of these waters and the Essex coast. It was designed to be suitable for the shallow waters in the smalle
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  • ...beside a broad bay on the [[English Channel]], silting removed its harbour hundreds of years ago. Hythe was once the central Cinque Port, between [[Hastings]] ...h in [[Canterbury]], but during the 12th century it became home of Henry d'Essex, constable of England.
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  • ...leave their name (''Seaxe'') on the land as a whole but in the names of [[Essex]], [[Sussex]], [[Middlesex]] and [[Wessex]]. (In Welsh though the English r ...orthumbria]]ns, [[Mercia]]ns, [[Wessex|West Saxons]], [[East Anglia]]ns, [[Essex|East Saxons]], [[Sussex|South Saxons]] and [[Kent]]. Others survived for so
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  • ...s currently undergoing a substantial housing transformation which has seen hundreds of new homes built over the last five years. There are currently two furthe ...LUL19025tif&zoom=in Elstree with Boreham Wood]", 1894 Kelly's Directory of Essex, Herts & Middx
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  • ...ver the Thames. In part, thr Mardyke forms the boundary between the Essex hundreds of [[Barstable Hundred|Barstable]] and [[Chafford Hundred|Chafford]]. ...st-conquest forgery.<ref name=Hart>{{cite book|title=The Early Charters of Essex|first=Cyril|last=Hart|year=1971|publisher=Leicester University Press|isbn=0
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  • ...the Royalist capital at Oxford. A force under the Parliamentarian Earl of Essex occupied Islip in May 1644 but a Royalist force under the Earl of Northampt ...ohn Dunkin |year=1823 |title=Oxfordshire. The History & Antiquities Of the Hundreds Of Bullington & Ploughley |chapter=Islip |location=London |publisher=Hardin
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  • ...e to the island, led by Francis Drake and John Norreys. The English killed hundreds of the women and children of Clan MacDonnell, who had taken refuge there.<r
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