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Home Counties   /hoʊm kˈaʊntiz/   Listen
Home Counties

noun
1.
The English counties surrounding London into which Greater London has expanded.





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"Home Counties" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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 Southend and Shoeburyness, and south of the Thames to Deal and Broadstairs, poured the same frantic rout. If one could have hung that June morning in a balloon in ...
— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells


Words linked to "Home Counties" :   county, Great Britain, United Kingdom, UK, U.K., surrey, Britain, Essex, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Kent


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