List of counties of England by area in 1815
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This is a list of historic counties of England by area according to the Arrowsmith map of 1815-6, which was in turn generated from the work of the Ordnance Survey.[1]
Rank | County | Area |
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1 | Yorkshire | 5,961 sq mi |
2 | Lincolnshire | 2,748 sq mi |
3 | Devon | 2,579 sq mi |
4 | Norfolk | 2,092 sq mi |
5 | Northumberland | 1,871 sq mi |
6 | Lancashire | 1,831 sq mi |
7 | Somerset | 1,642 sq mi |
8 | Hampshire | 1,628 sq mi |
9 | Kent | 1,537 sq mi |
10 | Essex | 1,532 sq mi |
11 | Suffolk | 1,512 sq mi |
12 | Cumberland | 1,478 sq mi |
13 | Sussex | 1,463 sq mi |
14 | Wiltshire | 1,379 sq mi |
15 | Shropshire | 1,341 sq mi |
16 | Cornwall | 1,327 sq mi |
17 | Gloucestershire | 1,256 sq mi |
18 | Staffordshire | 1,148 sq mi |
19 | County Durham | 1,061 sq mi |
20 | Cheshire | 1,052 sq mi |
21 | Derbyshire | 1,026 sq mi |
22 | Northamptonshire | 1,017 sq mi |
23 | Dorset | 1,005 sq mi |
24 | Warwickshire | 902 sq mi |
25 | Herefordshire | 860 sq mi |
26 | Cambridgeshire | 858 sq mi |
27 | Nottinghamshire | 837 sq mi |
28 | Leicestershire | 804 sq mi |
29 | Westmorland | 763 sq mi |
30 | Surrey | 758 sq mi |
31 | Berkshire | 756 sq mi |
32 | Oxfordshire | 752 sq mi |
33 | Buckinghamshire | 740 sq mi |
34 | Worcestershire | 729 sq mi |
35 | Hertfordshire | 528 sq mi |
36 | Monmouthshire | 498 sq mi |
37 | Bedfordshire | 463 sq mi |
38 | Huntingdonshire | 370 sq mi |
39 | Middlesex | 282 sq mi |
40 | Rutland | 149 sq mi |
References
[edit]- ^ A. Fullarton & Co. (1851). The Parliamentary Gazetteer of England and Wales.