county town

noun

the town in which a county's affairs are or were administered

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Examples from the Web for county town

Historical Examples

This place is the county-town of Sumter County, and the head of navigation by the Ocklawaha.
Down South
Oliver Optic
Brentford has been the county-town for elections since 1701.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4
Various
All other towns are provincial in character and akin to the county-town type.
Dutch Life in Town and Country
P. M. Hough
He was merely continuing his Leicester work, appealing, not to a county-town, but to the nation at large.
The London Pulpit
J. Ewing Ritchie
It is the county-town; and hither, in 1660, the sheriff-court was removed from Kincardine by Act of Parliament.
The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain Vol. 1
William Finden

county town

Examples from the Web for county town

Historical Examples

This place is the county-town of Sumter County, and the head of navigation by the Ocklawaha.

Brentford has been the county-town for elections since 1701.

All other towns are provincial in character and akin to the county-town type.

He was merely continuing his Leicester work, appealing, not to a county-town, but to the nation at large.

It is the county-town; and hither, in 1660, the sheriff-court was removed from Kincardine by Act of Parliament.