Game On

Today England play Algeria

Welcome back, this post is in support of "Unity in Diversity" all about it can be seen on Maxmoms Blog    there are pictures, recipes, update on what's happening in South Africa with the football, plus other bloggers that have put up posts, covering the football teams playing. 

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  This post is about the counties of England, the following map and most of the information has come from
Pictures of England .com  England is not that straight forward when it come to the counties,  I kept coming up with different  totals as to how many there are, some are sub divided.
 The list below covers 36 and a piece of information about them.        

 Counties of England

•Bedfordshire -  Dukes of Bedfords home Woburn Abby

•Berkshire - Windsor Castle, Royal Ascot is held here

•Buckinghamshire -Country residence of the Prime Minister

•Cambridgeshire - Home of the University of Cambridge

•Cheshire - Chester is the only city in England to have preserved its medieval walls

•Cornwall - Cornish tin and copper mines in and around 1816

•Cumberland - England's highest Mountain "Scafell Pike" 978m high

•Derbyshire - England's first national park "The Peak District

•Devon - Torquay- birth place of Agatha Christie

•Dorset - Weymouth-Sherborne Castle built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594

•Durham -Durham Castle and Durham Cathedral is a World Heritage site

•Essex - Southend-on-Sea boasts the longest pleasure pier in the world

•Gloucestershire - Gloucester Cathedral where shots for Harry Potter were filmed

•Hampshire - Home of the "New Forest" which covers 145 square miles

•Herefordshire - Home of the Malvern Hills

•Hertfordshire -Stevenage – the first UK New Town

•Kent - Home of Canterbury Cathedral and the worlds largest collection of oast houses

•Lancashire - Home of Blackpool the largest beech side funfair in Europe

•Leicestershire -  Has the National Space Centre

•Lincolnshire - Grantham- home to Isaac Newton

•Norfolk - Famous for the Norfolk Broads

•Northumberland -  Bamburgh Castle was the first castle in Britain to come under cannon fire

•Northamptonshire -Sulgrave Manor, the home of George Washington's Ancestors 

•Nottinghamshire -Birth place of D H Lawrence

•Oxfordshire -  Famous for its Universities

•Rutland - Is the smallest of the English counties

•Shropshire - Shrewsbury Birth place of Charles Darwin and my home county.

•Somerset - Britains largest gorge called "Cheddar Gorge"

•Staffordshire - Home of "The Potteries"

•Suffolk - Home of Newmarket Famous for Horse racing

•Surrey - Where Flatford Mill was painted by John Constable

•Sussex - Battle of Hasting in 1066

•Warwickshire - Stratford upon Avon Shakespease's Birth place

•Wiltshire - Salisbury Cathedral The Highest Spire in England

•Worcestershire - Famous for "Royal Worcester China"

•Yorkshire - The Famous "Yorkshire Dales"

The Isle of Wight is also part of England.

Thanks for popping by, next time England play my post will be about Shropshire my home county.

See Yea George xxx