(Now usually with capital initial.) The name of the tract of country, formerly wooded, including the portions of Sussex, Kent, and Surrey which lie…

(a) The city, university, or diocese of Oxford. (b) Now more usually: the county of Oxfordshire.

the Stannaries: The districts comprising the tin mines and smelting works of Cornwall and Devon formerly under the jurisdiction of the Stannary…

In singular and (now usually) plural. The middle part of a country or region; the Midlands: the Midland counties of England (see sense A. 1a).

the counties surrounding London; also occasionally in singular.

The name of that division of the county palatine of Durham to which Holy Island belonged.

In plural. With the. Usually with capital initial. A region of lakes and mountains in Cumbria; = Lake District n. at compounds 2a.

Apparently = Fylde, proper name of a district in Lancashire.

In plural. With the and capital initial. The area around Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where the English pottery industry is based.

the Shires n. A term applied to other parts of England by the inhabitants of East Anglia, Kent, Sussex, Essex, and Surrey; also gen. applied to those…

The area adjacent to the banks of the river Tyne in England, spec. the city of Newcastle-on-Tyne, used attributively to designate things, esp…

The land of lakes; spec. the region of the English lakes, consisting of parts of Cumbria and Lancashire. Also attributive.

= lakeland, n.

= lakeland, n.

The name of a kingdom in south-west England in Anglo-Saxon times, used by Thomas Hardy as the name of the county in which his stories are set…

the part of Warwickshire around Stratford-on-Avon, birthplace of Shakespeare.

An informal name for: Tyneside, esp. the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. Also: Tyneside and neighbouring regions of north-east England.

the district, in Kent, where the cherry is largely grown, in extensive cherry-orchards, for commercial purposes.