Category: Highest points of historic Scottish counties

Cumberland is one of the historic counties of England.

The counties of England at the time ( today known as the historic counties, since the major boundary changes of 1974 ) were used as the basis of the system.

The counties of England at the time ( now known as the historic counties, since the major boundary changes of 1974 ) were used as the basis of the system.

The act called for the creation of statutory counties, based on the ancient / historic counties, but completely corrected for enclaves and exclaves, and adjusted so that all settlements were completely within a single county.

Onto the blank canvas, new counties were created to cover the entire country ; many of these were obviously based on the historic counties, but there were some major changes, especially in the north.

The counties represent a compromise between the historic counties and the counties established in 1974.

Areas that were shired by 1607 and continued in existence down to the local government reforms of 1836, 1898 and 2001 are sometimes referred to as " traditional " or " historic " counties.

The border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State was based on the borders of existing counties and did not include all of historic Ulster.

There are also ceremonial counties which group small non-metropolitan counties into geographic areas broadly based on the historic counties of England.

The thirteen historic counties of Wales were fixed by Statute in 1539 ( although counties such as Pembrokeshire date from 1138 ) and most of the shires of Scotland are of at least this age.

A significant portion of the residents of the San Luis Valley are Hispanic with historic populations in Costilla and Conejos counties which were settled by early migrants from New Mexico.

Glamorgan or Glamorganshire ( or ) is one of the thirteen historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales.

Provincial Grand Lodges ( which in England generally correspond to historic counties ) exercise an intermediate authority, and also appoint Provincial Grand Officers.

The emerging Baptist movement in 17th-century England, for example, was a microcosm of the historic debate between Calvinists and Arminians.

Category: Registered historic battlefields in England

For a full list of all historic Benedictine houses in England & Wales see below.

Near the green typically stand historical visual symbols of New England towns, such as a white church, a colonial meeting house, a colonial tavern or " inne ", several colonial houses, and so on, establishing a scenic historic appearance maintained for both historic preservation and tourism.

After his retirement Gardner moved to Highcliffe near the New Forest on the south coast of England, where he says he met a group of people who had preserved their historic occult practices.

The MCG hosted the historic 1992 Cricket World Cup final between Pakistan and England with a crowd of more than 87, 000.

* Saffron Walden, Essex, England ( hedge maze ), ( The town also has a historic turf maze )

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

Since the retreat of the most recent glaciation the South East of England, like the Netherlands, has been steadily slowly sinking through historic time due to forebulge sinking.

Winchester ( archaically known as Winton and Wintonceastre ) is a historic cathedral city and former capital city of England.

Category: Registered historic battlefields in England

is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England.

Category: Registered historic battlefields in England

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.

Category: Registered historic battlefields in England

Category: Registered historic battlefields in England

Nevertheless, Bacup's historic character, culture and festivities have encouraged the town's suburbanisation and redevelopment as a commuter town ; English Heritage has proclaimed Bacup as the best preserved cotton town in England, and its town centre is designated as a conservation area for its special architectural qualities.

Clergy of the Church of England are required to affirm their loyalty to the Articles and other historic formularies ( the Book of Common Prayer and the Ordering of Bishops, Priests and Deacons ).

Albion's historic brick main street — first laid in 1903 and reconstructed with hand-laid, kiln-fired clay bricks in 1993.

( Aside from its historic role as a total-computable-but-not-primitive-recursive function, Ackermann's original function is seen to extend the basic arithmetic operations beyond exponentiation, although not as seamlessly as do variants of Ackermann's function that are specifically designed for that purpose — such as Goodstein's hyperoperation sequence.

Engineers who evaluated the damage found that two historic buildings dating from the early days of the Institute — Throop Hall and the Goodhue-designed Culbertson Auditorium — had cracked.

The Axis, too, believed that the capture of Egypt was imminent ; Italian leader Benito Mussolini — sensing an historic moment — flew to Libya to prepare for his triumphal entry to Cairo.

In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.

The Musée du Louvre ()— in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre — is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument.

Full preterism is sometimes viewed as heretical, based upon the historic creeds of the church ( which would exclude this view ), and also from Biblical passages that condemn a past view of the Resurrection or the denial of a physical resurrection or transformation of the body — doctrines which most Christians believe to be essential to the faith.

Regardless of these issues of the originality of the ship's structure, for Athenians the preserved ship kept fresh their understanding that Theseus had been an actual, historic figure — which none then doubted — and gave them a tangible connection to their divine providence.

Under his leadership, UNEP's most widely acclaimed success — the historic 1987 agreement to protect the ozone layer — the Montreal Protocol was negotiated.

Visible remains of the historic line are still easily located — hundreds of miles are still in service today, especially through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and canyons in Utah and Wyoming.

The urban renewal process, which includes the reconstruction of the area around the Neumarkt square on which the Frauenkirche is situated, will continue for many decades, but public and government interest remains high, and there are numerous large projects underway — both historic reconstructions and modern plans — that will continue the city's recent architectural renaissance.

While many of these moments were baseball-related — including World Series games, no-hitters, perfect games, and historic home runs — the stadium also hosted boxing matches, concerts, Conventions of Jehovah's Witnesses ( see record attendance ), and three Papal Masses.

The foreign relations of Pakistan and India remain unstable, but are now exacerbated by the nuclear arsenals of both states, as well as the rise of political parties promoting Hindu nationalism in India, and the rise of al-Qaeda Islamism in Pakistan, as well as intercommunal strife — ranging from the demolition of a historic mosque by communal hooligans with worshipers inside to a terrorist assault on Hindu shrines — could set off a nuclear war.

There are 24 historic baronies in the county — the most of any county in Ireland.

** Richmond — Wolfe ,( Quebec federal electoral district ) ( historic )

: Many of the historic sites are homes and studios of artists, including the Mabel Dodge Luhan House, Eanger Irving Couse House and Studio — Joseph Henry Sharp Studios, the Nicolai Fechin House, the Leon Gaspard House, and the Ernest Martin Hennings House.

Thorvaldsen produced some striking and affecting statues of historic figures, including two in Warsaw, Poland: an equestrian statue of Prince Józef Poniatowski that now stands before the Presidential Palace ; and the seated Nicolaus Copernicus, before the Polish Academy of Sciences building — both located on Warsaw's Krakowskie Przedmieście.