Home Counties
pl n
the counties surrounding London
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How to use Home Counties in a sentence
It will be observed that three of the Home Counties occur in the first four in the above list.
For the next three years, 1800–3, the regiment continued to hover about the Home Counties.
The Life of George Borrow | Herbert JenkinsI live in one of the Home Counties, within five miles of one of the military camps.
The War on All Fronts: England's Effort | Mrs. Humphry WardDoubtless the registers of other parishes in the Home Counties would show a similar history if they were searched.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II) | Charles Creighton"Hedge," to any one from the Home Counties, indicates a boundary formed by growing bushes.
The Cornish Coast (South) | Charles G. Harper
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