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Excerpt from A Dictionary of Political, Phrases and Allusions: With a Short Bibliography
A county area created by the Local Government Act, 1888. Such areas are, gener ally speaking, co-terminous with the old counties; but London was made a county of itself, and Yorkshire, Lin colnshire and other larger counties were divided into two or three administrative counties.
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