A report on Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Historic counties of England

Brasenose Lane in Oxford city centre, a street onto which three colleges back.

The Counties of England as recorded in the Domesday Book.

The University of Oxford's Chemistry Research Laboratory.

An 1824 map of the English and Welsh counties

The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, a ‘textbook’ example of the English medieval manor house.

This (rather inaccurate) 1814 map shows Dudley in a detached part of Worcestershire surrounded by Staffordshire. Note the exclave of Shropshire (the parish of Halesowen), just to the south-east and part of Staffordshire (Broome and Clent) to the south-west as well.

Notice on the Corn Exchange, Royal Tunbridge Wells, mentioning the historic county boundary

The ancient county boundaries of Warwickshire cover a larger area than the administrative area in 1974 (in green).

Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick from Church Street

Former postal counties of England from 1974 to 1996

The ceremonial county borders Warwickshire to the north-west, Northamptonshire to the north-east, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, Wiltshire to the south-west and Gloucestershire to the west.

- Oxfordshire

All its zones south of the Thames: the Vale of White Horse and parts of South Oxfordshire were within the historic county of Berkshire, including the highest point, the 261 m White Horse Hill.

- Oxfordshire

The historic county boundaries included Coventry, Sutton Coldfield and Solihull, as well as much of Birmingham and Tamworth.

- Warwickshire

Warwickshire is bordered by Leicestershire to the northeast, Staffordshire to the northwest, Worcestershire and the West Midlands to the west, Northamptonshire to the east and southeast, Gloucestershire to the southwest and Oxfordshire to the south.

- Warwickshire

Some abbreviations are not obvious, such as "Salop" for Shropshire, from the Norman-derived word for its county town Shrewsbury; "Oxon" for Oxfordshire, from Latin Oxonium (referring to both the county and the city of Oxford); "Hants" for Hampshire; and "Northants" for Northamptonshire.

- Historic counties of England

Examples are Northamptonshire and Warwickshire.

- Historic counties of England

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The historic boundaries of the county shown in John Speed's map of the county in his Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, c. undefined 1611. A depiction of the town of Northampton is inset in the top left, and the city of Peterborough in the bottom right.

Northamptonshire

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County in the South Midlands of England.

Silverstone adds millions every year to the local economy - Kimi Räikkönen testing for McLaren at Silverstone in April 2006

An East Midlands Trains service approaching Wellingborough on the Midland Main Line

BBC Radio Northampton's Broadcasting House

Statue inscribed ‘They tackled the job’ outside Franklin's Gardens

Covering an area of 2,364 square kilometres (913 sq mi), Northamptonshire is landlocked between eight other counties: Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east, Buckinghamshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the south-west and Lincolnshire to the north-east – England's shortest administrative county boundary at 20 yards (19 metres).

The Soke of Peterborough falls within the historic boundaries of the county, but its area has been part of the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire since 1974.

Gloucestershire

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County in South West England.

The south cloister of Gloucester Cathedral was used for filming scenes in the Harry Potter films.

A boar of the local Gloucestershire Old Spot breed.

Gloucestershire borders Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire to the east, Wiltshire to the south, Bristol and Somerset to the south-west, and the Welsh county of Monmouthshire to the west.

The current Gloucestershire County Council area does not have the same geographical boundaries as the historic county.