User:Jnestorius/County town table
| Country | County | Town | Def[l 1] | Name[l 2] | Lent[l 3] | Summer[l 4] | Proc[l 5] | Poll[l 6] | Gaol[l 7] | Meas[l 8] | CC[l 9] | Auth[l 10] | C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 | C5 | Notes |
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| England | Avon | Bristol | Yes | County existed 1974 to 1996 | ||||||||||||||
| England | Bedfordshire | Bedford | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| England | Berkshire | Reading | Yes[fn 1] | |||||||||||||||
| England | Berkshire | Abingdon | ||||||||||||||||
| England | Buckinghamshire | Buckingham | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| England | Buckinghamshire | Aylesbury | ||||||||||||||||
| England | Cambridgeshire | Cambridge | Yes | Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely 1965–74 | ||||||||||||||
| England | Cheshire | Chester | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| England | Cornwall | Bodmin | After 1834[2] | 1716-27, and from 1738[3][2] | From 1780[3] | Summer assizes moved under 1st Geo. I. c. 45.[2] | ||||||||||||
| England | Cornwall | Truro | ||||||||||||||||
| England | Cornwall | Launceston | To 1834[3][2] | To 1716, and 1727-38[3] | To 1780[3] | Defoe | ||||||||||||
| England | Cornwall | Lostwithiel | Assizes moved by Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall to Lostwithiel Stannary Palace.[3] | |||||||||||||||
| England | Cornwall | Saltash | Assizes held there during the plague years | |||||||||||||||
| England | Cumberland | Carlisle | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| England | Cumberland | Cockermouth | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
| England | Derbyshire | Derby | Yes | To 1958[4] | Derby was a separate county borough. | |||||||||||||
| England | Derbyshire | Matlock | From 1958[4] | |||||||||||||||
| England | Devon | Exeter | Yes | In 1963 the Devon County Buildings Area was transferred from the county borough of Exeter to the administrative county of Devon, of which it formed an exclave until 1974.[5] | ||||||||||||||
| England | Dorset | Dorchester | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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- Legend
- ^ Is the town described or defined as the county town, shire town, or chief burgh in a statute or charter?
- ^ Is the county named after the town?
- ^ Lent Assizes
- ^ Summer Assizes
- ^ Proclamation of the election of knights of the shire
- ^ Poll for the election of knights of the shire
- ^ Location of County Gaol
- ^ Location of reference Weights and Measures
- ^ Location of county council headquarters
- ^ Authorities describing the town as the county town
- Footnotes
- ^ Thomas Joshua Platt refused to use Reading from 1849 till a new courthouse was built in 1861.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Graham, Clare (2003). Ordering law: the architectural and social history of the English law court to 1914. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 101. ISBN 9780754607878. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ a b c d Gilbert, Davies (1838). The parochial history of Cornwall. J. B. Nichols and son. p. 431. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f Magna Britannia: volume 3: Cornwall (1814), pp. III-X
- ^ a b Removal of County Headquarters, The Times, January 28 1958
- ^ Frederic A. Youngs, Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.1: Southern England, London, 1979, p.83