Talk:Hexhamshire

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Looking at records at british-history.ac.uk, several attempts had been made to annex Hexhamshire to Northumberland: there was a bill introduced in the 1566 session and one in 1569. possibly was refused royal assent? Morwen - Talk 10:59, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

What is the traditional counties movement or Association of British Counties stance on Hexhamshire's status? Penrithguy 22:43, 15 November 2006 (UTC)


 * OK this is a bit old now but I emailed the Association of British Counties a couple of weeks ago and got this reply earlier today;

"Our definition of the historic counties matches that in the Historic Counties Standard produced by the Historic Counties Trust 9see www.historicountiestrust.co.uk for full details of this. We also list this in précis in our AIMS and Objects which can be found on our web site. Essentially, we don’t consider the counties to have been altered by any LG legislation (from 1888 onwards), but consider them to be as first mapped by OS in the nineteenth century. The counties had been stable for many centuries prior to that. Under our definition Hexhamshire isn’t considered a traditional county. This, of course, does not mean that we don’t value its historic identity".

I think this clears it up.The flying pasty (talk) 17:28, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Map
It would be fairly useful for the article to have a map showing the extent of the former county. I have looked around but have only found a map of the parish: will keep looking, but it would be much appreciated if somebody else joined in. 75.156.68.21 (talk) 16:21, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

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Hexhamshire, was it really a county?
There appears to be a total lack of evidence that Hexhamshire was ever a county, as opposed to a Liberty, County-Corporate, or just an exclave of County Durham for example. The line "the county probably originated as one of the districts of the Kingdom of Northumbria", can not be proven, as sadly no records of any districts remain, Bede mentioned such districts existed but never named any of them, so I feel it is conjecture. Also the claim that Hexham was the county town is rather moot, with Hexham being the only town in the whole area. Certainly Hexhamshire is an existing parish, and it certainly was at some point transferred to Northumberland, but whether that was from another county or if it was a county at the time is unclear. Wikipedia seems to be the only source that claims Hexhamshire is a "former county". I ask if there would be any objections to deleting the parts of the article I mentioned? Many thanks Jojo the Dodo (talk) 21:00, 2 August 2021 (UTC)