Cornwall – maritime county of England, forming its SW. extremity; is bounded by Devon on the E., and washed on all the other sides by the sea; length, NE. and SW., 75 miles; average breadth, 22 miles; coastline, about 200 miles; area, 863,665 acres, population. 330,686. The S. coast is much and deeply indented, and … Read more
Carmarthenshire, a maritime county of S. Wales, and the largest of all the Welsh counties; is bounded N. by Cardiganshire, E. by Brecknockshire and Glamorgan, S. by the Bristol Channel, and W. by Pembrokeshire; greatest length, NE. and SW., 50 miles; greatest breadth, E. and W., 42 miles; the coast, which is marshy, measures about … Read more
Buckinghamshire, or Bucks, an inland county of England, bounded N. by Northamptonshire, E. by Bedfordshire, Herts, and Middlesex, S. by Surrey (for the distance of about 1 mile) and Berks, and W. by Oxfordshire; greatest length, N. and S., 50 miles; greatest breadth, E. and W., 24 miles; average breadth, 17 miles; area 477,151 acres, … Read more
Caithness-shire, a maritime county, in the extreme NE. of the mainland of Scotland. The side adjoining Sutherlandshire measures about 33 miles; the coast on the Pentland Firth about 41 miles; and the coast on the North Sea about 43 miles; area, 438,878 acres; population 38,865, or 57 persons to each square mile. The coast along … Read more
Cambridgeshire, inland eastern county of England; bounded N. by Lincolnshire, E. by Norfolk and Suffolk, S. by Essex and Herts, W. by Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire; greatest length, N. and S., 48 miles; greatest breadth, E. and W., 28 miles; average breadth, 16 miles; area, 524,935 acres; population 185,594. The N. section of the county, … Read more
Bedfordshire Bedfordshire, or Beds, a midland county of England, bounded by the counties of Northampton, Cambridge, Herts, and Bucks. Greatest length, N. and S., 30 miles; greatest breadth, E. and W., 20 miles; area, 29,983 acres; population 149,473. The surface is mostly flat, varied in the S. by a spur of the Chiltern Hills, and … Read more
Belfast, parliamentary and municipal borough, manufacturing and seaport town, and the principal town of Ulster, chiefly in Shankill parish, county Antrim, but partly also in Holywood and Knockbreda parishes, county Down, at the influx of the Lagan to Belfast Lough, 113 miles N. of Dublin by rail, 129 from Glasgow, and 160 from Liverpool – … Read more
Berkshire, one of the inland counties of England, lying between Hants and the river Thames, bounded on the N. by Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Bucks, E. by Surrey, S. by Herts, and W. by Wilts; greatest length, E. and W., 53 miles; greatest breadth, N. and W., 30 miles; area 462,210 acres, population 218,363. It is … Read more
Berwickshire, a maritime county in the extreme SE. of Scotland, extending in extreme breadth about 20 m. between Haddingtonshire and the English border, and in extreme length about 33 miles between Roxburgshire and the German Ocean; coast-line about 20 miles; area, 460.6 square miles; population 35,392, or 77 persons to each square mile. The coast … Read more
Bristol, city, municipal and parliamentary borough, seaport, and county of itself, chiefly in Gloucestershire but partly in Somerset, at the confluence of the rivers Avon and Frome, 6 miles from the Bristol Channel at Avonmouth and 120 miles W. of London by rail, the port being 29 miles from Cardiff, 70 from Swansea. 245 from … Read more