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Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1607, William Camden's Britannia described Britain like this: BRITAINE or BRITANNIE, which also is ALBION, ... the most famous Iland, without comparison, of the whole world; severed from the continent of Europe by the interflowing of the Ocean, lieth against Germanie and France ...
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The Hundred is a division of the Ancient County, also known as a Leet (East Anglia), a Ward (Cumberland, Durham and Northumberland), and Wapentake (Counties of York). It held administrative and judical functions, although the level of administrative responsibilities held by each of these units differed. Its origins are unclear, but possibly ...
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The Great Britain Historical Database holds most of the ingredients from which Vision of Britain was constructed, and much more besides. Material has been gathered since the late 1970s. The largest part of GBHDB is statistical, and the data are organised more conventionally than in Vision of Britain, in thousands of columns within hundreds of ...
