The streets of any county town were like this on any sunshiny afternoon in summer ; ;

Not only his parishioners, but the whole town and, ultimately, the whole county were enormously impressed by this object lesson.

* Forfar, the county town and administrative centre

Chapter 28 of the 1535 Act of Henry VIII, which provided that Monmouth, as county town, should return one burgess to Parliament, further stated that other ancient Monmouthshire boroughs were to contribute towards the payment of the member.

It was formerly the county town of Cornwall until the Crown Courts moved to Truro which is also the administrative centre ( before 1835 the county town was Launceston ).

Cambridge is the county town of Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

The county covers an area of 1, 691 km² ( 653 sq ; mi ), with a population of approximately 57, 527, with Enniskillen its county town.

A county town is a county's administrative centre in the United Kingdom or Ireland.

County towns are usually the location of administrative or judicial functions, or established over time as the de facto main town of a county.

The concept of a county town eventually became detached from its original meaning of where the county administration is based ( see County halls below ).

Dartmouth is a town and civil parish in the English county of Devon.

Dedham () is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

The town ( and county ) were named for him.

It is the seat of local government for Fermanagh District Council, and is also the county town of Fermanagh as well as its largest town.

Captain Cole was installed as Constable and strengthened the castle wall and built a " fair house " on the old foundation as the centrepoint of the county town.

Hastings () is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England.

The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86, 900.

However, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1011 relates that Vikings overran " all Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Haestingas ", indicating the town was still considered a separate ' county ' or province to its neighbours 240 years after Offa's conquest.

`` Actually, the abuse of the process may have constituted a contempt of the Criminal court of Cook county, altho vindication of the authority of that court is not the function of this court '', said Karns, who is a City judge in East St. Louis sitting in Cook County court.

A county park in East Meadow, New York ( Long Island ) is named in his honor.

Although London ( and the rest of Middlesex ) was lost by the East Saxons in the 8th century, the bishops of London continued to exert spiritual authority over Essex as a kingdom, shire and county until 1845.

* the geographical area comprising the two westernmost provinces of the Flemish Region, West Flanders and East Flanders, parts of a former county named Flanders.

Although the London County Council had been created as a London-wide authority covering the County of London in 1889, the county did not cover all the built-up area of London, particularly West Ham and East Ham ; and many of the LCC housing projects, including the vast Becontree Estate, were outside its boundaries.

In the Georgian era, patronage of such seaside places ( such as nearby Brighton ) gave it a new lease of life so that, when the time came with the reform of English local government in 1888, Hastings became a County Borough, responsible for all its local services, independent of the surrounding county, then Sussex ( East ); less than one hundred years later, in 1974, that status was abolished.

By the 6th century the majority of the modern county was part of the East Saxon kingdom.

Suffolk () is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England.

The two divisions were made separate administrative counties as East Suffolk and West Suffolk under the Local Government Act 1888, with Ipswich becoming a county borough.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, East Suffolk, West Suffolk and Ipswich were merged to form a unified county of Suffolk on 1 April 1974.

In the East of the county is Sutton Hoo, the site of one of England's most significant Anglo-Saxon archæological finds ; a ship burial containing a collection of treasures including a Sword of State, gold and silver bowls and jewellery and a lyre.

John Knox, a Lowland Scot, was born sometime between 1505 and 1515 in or near Haddington, the county town of East Lothian.

Th-fronting, L-vocalization and T glottalization can now be found in every county of England ( with L-vocalization being largely absent from Northern England ), whereas before the 1960s the only Cockney feature that was common to all of England, except for much of East Anglia, North East England, Yorkshire and Lancashire was H-dropping.

Dover (; ) is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England.

* Horn, Rutland, a civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England

It is the county town of Hampshire, in South East England.

For General elections, the county is divided into two constituencies, Donegal South – West and Donegal North – East, with both having three representatives in Dáil Éireann.

For elections to Dáil Éireann, the county is divided into five constituencies — Cork East, Cork North – Central, Cork North – West, Cork South – Central and Cork South – West.

The East Fork of the Lewis River and the Washougal River cut across the county.

Sussex (; abbreviated Sx ), from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (' South Saxons '), is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

The appellation Sussex remained in use as a ceremonial county until 1974, when the Lord-Lieutenant of Sussex was replaced with one each for East and West Sussex.

Formerly part of the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex, it remains part of the ceremonial county of East Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex.

The district had been created in 1975, under the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act 1973, and it consisted of the local government county of East Lothian, plus the burgh of Musselburgh and the Inveresk area, both formerly within the county of Midlothian.

When abolished, for local government purposes, in 1975, the county of East Lothian bordered the county of Midlothian to the west, and the county of Berwick to the south.

The county of West Lothian was called Linlithgowshire or the County of Linlithgow until 1921.

Before 1975 the town was in the former county of West Lothian.

However, as it had become the county regiment of the Edinburgh area, it was retitled The Royal Scots ( Lothian Regiment ), and it took on a militia battalion and seven battalions of Volunteers from the local area.

He was appointed minister of Pencaitland, in the county of East Lothian, in about 1640, where he was one of those appointed to draw up The Directory for Public Worship in Scotland.

West Lothian was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1983.

The county of Roxburgh was covered by the Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles constituency, and the county of Berwick was covered by the Berwick and East Lothian constituency.