Districts of England - Districts of England The Districts of England are the lowest level of local government in England except for Parish/Town councils. England is first divided into governmental regions, then administrative counties. Counties are then subdivided into districts. Some counties no longer have county councils, and the components are now independent unitary authorities. These counties are indicated in brackets. Additionally, some districts of county councils have been elevated to unitary authority status. These are listed in brackets under the administrative county they used to be part of. Two of these, Herefordshire and Rutland are listed directly under the region as they are historic counties also. See: List of English districts by population. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 East of England 2 East Midlands 3 Greater London 4 North.
Administrative counties of England - Administrative counties of England The division into counties is one of the larger divisions of England. Counties are usually divided into several districts, each with its own separate administration (districts may be called Boroughs in some cases). Some counties consist of only one district, and these are called unitary authorities. Note: some traditionalists claim the term 'county' unadorned means the historic counties (which matched the administrative counties in about 1200). For the purposes of this article, and in every day usage (including that of the government), it does not. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 List 1.1 Shire counties 1.2 Unitary Authorities 1.3 Metropolitan Counties 2 Brief History 2.4 1888 : Establishment of Local Government 2.5 1965 : Greater London 2.6 1974 : Metropolitan counties 2.7 1986 : Break-up.
Cleveland, England - Cleveland, England Cleveland is an area in the north east of England which had the status of county from 1974, when it was formed from parts of the North Riding of Yorkshire and County Durham. Previous to that it had no separate existence as a local government body. The districts of Cleveland were Hartlepool, Langbaurgh-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, and Middlesbrough. The Cleveland (Structural Change) Order 1995 and The Cleveland (Further Provision) Order 1995 came into effect in 1996, and renamed Langbaurgh-on-Tees to Redcar and Cleveland, abolished Cleveland, and created new administrative counties of the four districts (as unitary authorities). The 1974 county of Cleveland took its name from the historical region Cleveland. This region had Guisborough as its regional capital and unlike the 1974 country was located entirely to.
Subdivisions of England - Subdivisions of England For local government purposes, England is divided into three types of areas - non-unitary authorities, Unitary Authorities, and London boroughs. Non-unitary authorities are administrative counties that are subdivided into a number of districts, which have district councils. Unitary Authorities are either administrative counties consisting of a single district, or districts of a county with no county council. The council of a Unitary Authorities are refered to as "district council", unless it converges with a borough, city, or historic county (in the cases of Rutland and Herefordshire), in which case it is called a "borough council", "city council" or "county council". Greater London has no county council; the 32 borough councils are the highest authority, although the Greater London Authority exists to coordinate their activities..
Metropolitan Counties of England - Metropolitan Counties of England The metropolitan counties of England are administrative units that cover large urban areas, each with several metropolitan districts. Their county councils were disbanded in 1986, for political rather than practical reasons, with most of the functions allocated to the individual districts. They still exist both as legal administrative counties, are used in government statistics, and are also ceremonial counties. Some functions such as emergency services and public transport are still administered on a metropolitan county wide basis. The metropolitan counties are: Greater Manchester (Manchester, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan) Merseyside (Liverpool, Knowsley, Sefton, St. Helen's and Wirral) South Yorkshire (Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham) Tyne and Wear (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Sunderland) West Midlands (Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull,.
List of English districts by population - List of English districts by population This is a list of Districts of England ordered by population. It covers all of England. The counties used are the Ceromonial counties of England. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Over 300,000 2 Over 250,000 3 Over 200,000 4 Over 150,000 5 Over 125,000 6 Over 100,000 7 Over 75,000 8 Over 50,000 9 Below 50,000 Over 300,000 District Population Type County 1 Birmingham 977,087 Unitary, City (1889) West Midlands 2 Leeds 715,402 Unitary, City (1893) West Yorkshire 3 Sheffield 513,234 Unitary, City (1893) South Yorkshire 4 Bradford 467,665 Unitary, City (1897) West Yorkshire 5 Liverpool 439,473 Unitary, City (1880) Merseyside 6 Manchester 392,819 Unitary, City (1853) Greater Manchester 7 Kirklees 388,567 Unitary West Yorkshire 8 Bristol 380,615 Unitary, City (1542) Bristol.
January 2003 - led to a riot in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, causing the destruction of the Thai Embassy and dozens of Thai-owned businesses, hotels and factories. January 28, 2003 An election in the state of Oregon to pass an temporary three-year income tax failed with 54% of the votes voting against and 44% voting for. This forced the first layoffs in the Oregon State Police since its creation in 1934, and other actions including cutbacks in many of the local school districts. January 26, 2003 American Football Super Bowl XXXVII: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Oakland Raiders, 48-21. January 25, 2003 The Internet was attacked by very high traffic caused by a self-replicating software worm program called "SQL Slammer". This attacked Microsoft SQL servers, causing them to spray the Internet with more copies.
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde - August he was appointed lieutenant-general. On the outbreak of the rebellion in 1641 he rendered admirable service in the expedition to Naas, and in the march into the Pale in 1642. The lords justices, who were jealous of his power, recalled him after he had succeeded in relieving Drogheda. He received the public thanks of the English parliament and a jewel of the value of £620. On 15 April 1642 he won the battle of Kilrush against Lord Mountgarret. On 30 August 1642 he was created a marquess, and on 16 September 1642 was appointed lieutenant-general with a commission direct from the king. On 18 March 1643 he won the Battle of New Ross against Thomas Preston, afterwards Viscount Tara. In September, the civil war in England having meanwhile broken out,.
John Lambert (General) - joined Cromwell on the other side of the field. When the New Model Army formed in the beginning of 1645, Colonel Lambert was appointed to succeed Sir Thomas Fairfax in command of the northern forces, with the title of commissary-general. He was soon replaced by Sydnam Poyntz, and under this officer he served in the Yorkshire campaign of 1645, receiving a wound before Pontefract. In 1646 he was given a regiment in the New Model, serving with Sir Thomas Fairfax in the west of England, and he was a commissioner, with Cromwell and others, for the surrender of Oxford in the same year. "It is evident", says C. H. Firth (in the Dictionary of National Biography), "that he was from the first regarded as an officer of exceptional capacity and specially.
July 2002 - John Paul II canonizes St. Juan Diego an Indian who had a vision of the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe. July 30, 2002 Pope John Paul II canonizes Pedro de San Jose Betancur. Greek electronic game ban: The bill 3037/2002, a controversial attempt to fight illegal gambling, is declared a law in Greece. July 29, 2002 England beat India in the first cricket test match of the series. July 28, 2002 Cyclist Lance Armstrong won his fourth consecutive Tour de France. July 27, 2002 A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter plane crashes into a crowd at an airshow in Lviv in the Ukraine, killing at least 78 people and injuring many more. A series of bomb blasts have rocked the Christian districts of the city of Ambon in Indonesia in what appears.
Isabella of Castile - Afonso IV of Portugal, as well as of her half-brother Peter I of Portugal and his mistress Teresa Lourenço. Through John of Gaunt she was great-great-grandaughter of King Edward III of England and his wife Philippa of Hainault and through his first wife of Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster and his wife Isabel de Beaumont. Finally she was great-great-grandaughter to Nuno Alvares Pereira, count de Barcelos and his wife Leonor Alvim, Countess of Barcellos. She was great-grandaughter of John I of Castile and his wife Eleanor of Aragón, a sister of Kings John I of Aragon and Martin I of Aragon. She was also great-grandaughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and his second wife Constanza of Castile, a daughter of Peter I of Castile. Her third set of.
ISO 3166-2:GB - location in a more convenient and less ambiguous form than the full place name. US readers may wish to consider them as the equivalent of worldwide zip or postal codes. Within the Wikipedia, the codes from the country pages link to the pages for the locations they identify. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Newsletters 2 Encoding table 2.1 England 2.2 Scotland 2.3 Northern Ireland 2.4 Wales 2.5 BS-only Codes 3 See also Newsletters ISO 3166-2:2002-05-21 Encoding table England England (34 counties, 33 London Boroughs, 36 metropolitan districts, 46 unitary authorities, 1 special area) GB-BNE Barnet (London borough) GB-BNS Barnsley (South Yorkshire district) GB-BAS Bath and North East Somerset (unitary authority) GB-BDF Bedfordshire (county) GB-BEX Bexley (London borough) GB-BIR Birmingham (West Midlands district) GB-BBD Blackburn with Darwen GB-BPL Blackpool GB-BOL Bolton (Manchester.
Hastings - Hastings This is about Hastings in England. There are other uses of the name Hastings Hastings is a town and port in southeastern England, in the historic county of Sussex. Population (2000) about 84,000. Now known as a seaside resort and education center (Hastings College), it is near the site of the Battle of Hastings, fought in 1066. In this battle, William the Conqueror defeated and killed Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon King of England, and destroyed his army, opening England to the Norman conquest. Hastings was one of the Cinque Ports, but its significance as a port declined after the Middle Ages and its main industry became fishing Hastings forms a single urban centre with the more suburban area of St Leonards on Sea to the west;.
Hampshire - Hampshire Hampshire is a county on the south coast of England. Its county town is Winchester. For ceremonial purposes it includes Southampton and Portsmouth. Other towns in the county include Basingstoke, Andover, Aldershot, Portsmouth, and Farnborough. Aldershot, Portsmouth, and Farnborough have have strong military associations with the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force respectively. The county has in the past been called "Southamptonshire" and appears as such on some Victorian maps. The short form of the name, often used in postal addresses, is Hants. Hampshire County Council is based in Winchester, a historic city that was once the capital of the ancient kingdom of Wessex. Southampton and Portsmouth are both major ports. There is an international airport with its own rail station between Southampton and Eastleigh. Hampshire is a popular.
Hants County, Nova Scotia - Hants was created June 17, 1781, and consisted of the townships of Windsor, Falmouth and Newport. Originally getting its name from the County of Southamptonshire in England, now known as Hampshire, and abbreviated to Hants, the County was established out of part of what had been Kings County. The words of the minutes of the Council of Nova Scotia for June 17, 1781 make it clear that the distance from Horton (the County town of Kings County) and the inconvenience of crossing the Avon River to transact county business were factors which led to a separate county being formed. Four and a half years later its boundaries were more precisely defined and set forth by the Governor and Council in 1785. The boundary lines of Hants were duly surveyed and confirmed.
Hertfordshire - is an inland county, officially part of the East of England Government region. It is located to the north of Greater London, bordering the London boroughs (from west to east) of Hillingdon, Harrow, Barnet and Enfield. To the east of Hertfordshire is Essex, to the west is Buckinghamshire and to the north are Bedfordshire, Luton and Cambridgeshire. Hertfordshire was originally the area assigned to a fortress constructed at Hertford under the rule of Edward the Elder in 913. The name Hertfordshire appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in 1011. Hertfordshire is the starting point of the New River a man made waterway, opened in 1613 to supply London with fresh drinking water. The current administrative districts of Hertfordshire are (approximately north to south): North Hertfordshire East Hertfordshire Stevenage Welwyn Hatfield Dacorum St.
Hereford - Hereford (This article is about Hereford in England. There is also Hereford, Texas and Hereford (cattle).) Hereford is an historic city in the west of England, close to the border with Wales and on the River Wye it is the county town of Herefordshire. In 1991, Hereford had a population of 50,200. Hereford has a cathedral which dates from 1079 which contains the Mappa Mundi, a medieval map of the world dating from the 13th century and restored in the late 20th. It is known chiefly as a trading centre for a wider agricultural and rural area. Products from Hereford include: (Bulmers) cider, beer, leather goods, cattle, metal goods and chemicals. Hereford is the home of the Special Air Service or SAS. On 31 March 1998, the District of.
Henry Sidney - of Sussex, who in the previous year had married his sister Frances Sidney; and from the first he had a large share in the administration of the country, especially in the military measures taken by his brother-in-law for bringing the native Irish chieftains into submission to the English Crown. In the course of the lord deputy's Ulster expedition in 1557 Sidney devastated the island of Rathlin; and during the absence of Sussex in England in the following year Sidney was charged with the sole responsibility for the government of Ireland, which he conducted with marked ability and success. A second absence of the lord deputy from Ireland, occasioned by the accession of Queen Elizabeth, threw the chief control into Sidney's hands at the outbreak of trouble with Shane O'Neill, and he.
Heinrich Friedrich Karl, baron von und zum Stein - no votes for the diet In his old age he expressed his gratitude to his parents for the influence of their religious and truly German and knightly example. He added, "My view of the world and of human affairs I gathered as a boy and youth, in the solitude of a country life, from ancient and modern history, and in particular I was attracted by the incidents of the eventful history of England." The influence of English ideas, which was so potent a factor in the lives of Voltaire, Rousseau, Talleyrand and many others in the 18th century, was therefore potently operative in the early career of Stein. He does not seem to have gone to any school; but in 1773 he went with a private tutor to the university of.
History of Ethiopia - on the course of events. In the early part of the 6th century the king of the Himyarites, on the opposite coast of the Red Sea, having persecuted the Christians, the emperor Justinian I requested the king of Auxum, Caleh or El-Esbaha, to avenge their cause. He accordingly collected an army, crossed over into Arabia, and conquered Yemen (c.525), which remained subject to Ethiopia for about fifty years. This was the most flourishing period in the annals of the country. The Ethiopians possessed the richest part of Arabia, carried on a large trade, which extended as far as India and Ceylon, and were in constant communication with the Byzantine Empire. With their expulsion from Arabia, followed by the conquest of Egypt by the forces of Islam in the middle of the.
