Home Counties

plural noun

1. the counties surrounding London

Example Sentences

It will be observed that three of the home counties occur in the first four in the above list.

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For the next three years, 1800–3, the regiment continued to hover about the home counties.

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I live in one of the Home Counties, within five miles of one of the military camps.

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Doubtless the registers of other parishes in the home counties would show a similar history if they were searched.

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"Hedge," to any one from the Home Counties, indicates a boundary formed by growing bushes.

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