Historic Counties Trust

Our new Wall Map of the Historic Counties is now available for £9.99 inc P&P: historiccountiestrust.co.uk/map

To celebrate County Durham Day, 20th March St Cuthbert's Day, we present our Portrait of County Durham - the Land of the Prince Bishops. gazetteer.org.uk/County_Durham_…

Alasdair notes that the ONS 'Build a custom area profile' tool enables one to derive demographic info from the 2021 Census for the historic counties. Our 'Demography of the Historic Counties' did this using the 2011 Census historiccountiestrust.co.uk/The_Demography… We'll do likewise for 2021 Census

"an age that is past and vanished as though it had never been, an age when man did not exist, but pagan footsteps trod upon the hills. And there was a stillness in the air, and a stranger, older peace, that was not the peace of God" Daphne Du Maurier Jamaica Inn #StPiransDay

St David's Day at the Brecknock Museum at @yGaer_Brecon😃 In Brecknockshire Shire Hall, the museum celebrates and presents the cultural identity and heritage of Brecknockshire. The hall itself, the Assize courtroom and Brycheiniog Gallery witness the importance of the county👍

Today 23 Feb (feast day of St Milburga) is #ShropshireDay - a day to celebrate this inspiring historic county. Shropshire famously possesses every variety of natural charm but is equally famous for its role in the industrial revolution. What are your favourite Shropshire places?

The Historic Counties Standard provides a comprehensive definition of the names, areas & borders of the historic counties. Enables consistent use of the historic counties in contexts where they are the natural geography, e.g history, archiving, heritage. historiccountiestrust.co.uk/Historic_Count…

Our new large-scale map of the historic counties is available now on Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hist…

Our report on The Demography of the Historic Counties is now available: historiccountiestrust.co.uk/The_Demography…