Home Counties

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(Placename) the counties surrounding London

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Home Counties - the English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded

Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom

Essex - a county in southeastern England on the North Sea and the Thames estuary

Hertfordshire - a county in southern England

Kent - a county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans

Surrey - a county in southeastern England on the Thames

Translations

contee intorno a Londra

Home Counties

npl the Home Counties → le contee intorno a Londra

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Had the Martians aimed only at destruction, they might on Monday have annihilated the entire population of London, as it spread itself slowly through the home counties. Not only along the road through Barnet, but also through Edgware and Waltham Abbey, and along the roads eastward to South- end and Shoeburyness, and south of the Thames to Deal and Broadstairs, poured the same frantic rout.

Albans to relieve the congestion of the home counties. There was also a placard in Chipping Ongar announcing that large stores of flour were available in the northern towns and that within twenty-four hours bread would be distributed among the starving people in the neighbourhood.

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Old SmallWays went to his grave under an intricate network of wires and cables, for Bun Hill became not only a sort of minor centre of power distribution--the Home Counties Power Distribution Company set up transformers and a generating station close beside the old gas-works--but, also a junction on the suburban mono-rail system.

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The London Construction Programme is run by Haringey Council and is available to use by local authorities and other public sector organisations in London and the Home Counties for projects ranging from GBP1 million to more than GBP20 million.

Morgan Sindall - Construction appointed to GBP5 billion London programme

Amersham, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, May 03, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Floorcare & Restoration Home Counties Ltd offer comprehensive cleaning, restoration and refinishing services for all types of floors.

Buckinghamshire Floorcare and Restoration Experts Announce Unprecedented Growth

We ask that transfers be restricted within home counties so that teachers can be near their families," Mr Omollo told the committee.

Knut and MPs clash on 'inhumane' teacher transfers

In the past, most young people in Mombasa were asked to travel to their home counties to take part in the exercise because their ID cards read they are from upcountry counties.

Mombasa youth claim harassment during KDF recruitment, wants rules changed

The resulting album is Home Counties - and it's another instant classic from a band who rarely, if ever, put a foot wrong.

My Saints went marching home; Etienne singer Sarah on why the band went back to their suburban roots for new album and how, 27 years on, they are still as close as ever

The 21-practice group, based in London and the home counties, was bought by Scrivens Opticians & Hearing Care in 2006.

Ronnie Brown

If embattled Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is prosecuted for misusing government funds, his trial would be in Travis County, officials said Friday, despite a new law that sends some corruption cases against state officials and employees to their home counties.

Sid Miller Criminal Case Would Stay in Travis County

You may notice that whenever cash is spent in the North it is referred to as "taxpayers' money", yet whenever vast amounts diverted to Greater London and the Home Counties it's always referred to as "government investment".

Bridge Watford gap

But despite the ruse, he went down a storm with the Home Counties set who dominate the Tory conference.