The Shipping Forecast is a radio broadcast that goes out on long wave at set times of the day for those at sea. It gives weather information, wind speed, visibility, barometric pressure etc for each of the areas shown on the map.

 

 

This is an open confession of ignorance.

 

Which of these Domesday maps includes London? I tried googling "english counties historical" and various other combinations, but have been unable to find the answer.

 

Mind you, it doesn't help that I can't get a clear look at the Domesday maps on my screen, because my eyesight is getting so bad. They're all too small, and when I enlarge them, they're too blurry!!

 

Has anyone purchased any of these? What's the quality like . . . up close, as it were?

 

Thanks.

 

Linda

 

The Domesday Book didn't cover London neither did it cover the far northern counties of England as they were under Scottish control at the time.

 

London is London.  Essex and Surrey are both among the Home Counties, the counties which surround London.  Over the years, the ever-expanding city has reached further into Essex, Surrey, Kent, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.  Middlesex, which used to be one of the Home Counties, has been ruthlessly eliminated from the maps of England, though it still exists, mysteriously, as a postal address.

 

Louise

The modern county of Greater London as we know it today was only created in 1889. Before that the city fell into the four counties mentioned above - Essex, Surrey, Kent and Middlesex.

In addition to surviving as a postal address, despite not being on any modern map, Middlesex also survives as a county in the English County cricket Championship.

As for the Welsh counties, local government reorganization in 1974 saw the return of such names as Powys and Dyfed etc, but a few years ago they were relegated to history again and the Anglicized county names were restored; Flintshire, Denbighshire etc.