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Non-metropolitan counties
- HertfordshireHertfordshire's name comes from an Anglo-Saxon phrase for a deer crossing a river. The county sits just north of London.
- SurreySurrey, an English county, is where Magna Carta was sealed in June 1215.
- EssexColchester in Essex was minting its own coins before Julius Caesar crossed the Channel.
- SuffolkIn 1797, John Frere found flint hand axes twelve feet down in a Hoxne brick pit. He suggested they were extremely old.
- West SussexAt Eartham Pit in Boxgrove, West Sussex, researchers found the oldest hominin remains ever uncovered in Britain.
- KentWilliam the Conqueror could not subdue Kent. Its people negotiated favorable terms in 1067.
- WarwickshireWarwickshire once held Birmingham and Coventry, but lost both in 1974. Its cricket club still plays in Birmingham.
- DevonDevon is the only English county with two separate coastlines. One faces the Bristol Channel and the Celtic Sea in the north. The other faces the English Channel in the south. The county sits across a peninsula in South West England, and…
- WorcestershireA DreamWorks director set a film in Worcestershire because people keep mispronouncing it.
- DerbyshireOne Derbyshire farm is the furthest point from the sea in the entire United Kingdom.
- LancashireOn the 1st of April 1974, Lancashire lost Liverpool and Manchester. Both cities had defined its industrial identity.