Today is #Staffordshire Day !

This county day falls on the anniversary of #JosiahWedgwood setting up his pottery company in 1759.

The first official #Staffordshire Day took place in 2016, the year the county turned 1,000 years old.

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Flying visit to one of my favourite places ❤️ #Walney Island Walney Island Love Barrow Together Picture Cumbria England Coast Path Campaign for Historic Counties Pictures of Lancashire Friends of Real Lancashire #Cumbria #Barrow #Furness ExploreMorecambeBay

Campaign for Historic Counties A nice boundary marker in Vesta Road S.E.4

It’s Bedfordshire Day. Our historic counties - with their widely accepted geographical and cultural identities - should have a much more significant public purpose, but today we recognise our great county of #bedfordshire .
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Happy #fingerpostFriday and these from my #Yorkshire Dales #walk last weekend Fingerpost Friday Yorkshire Dales National Park #Yorkshire Campaign for Historic Counties

Historic county boundary marker on Lobby Bridge to the east of Lake Windermere, south of Bowland Bridge. Discovered as I was walking Slow Ways. Campaign for Historic Counties

The County of #Worcester is a shire in the Midlands.

#Worcester shire is a mixture of the very rural and the very urban.

In the centre of the shire is the fine cathedral city of Worcester, which sits on the banks of the River Severn.

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Campaign for Historic Counties Still reminders of Northumberland’s original presence down to the river Tyne. The ancient counties of Northumberland and Durham shown in the pedestrian Tyne Tunnel. Now the tunnel is split by the metropolitan boroughs of North and South Tyneside 🤢

Love coming to county hall Oxfordshire County Council to be reminded that not only was I not born in the County, but I'm still not even a true resident... 👀

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maladjusted 📷 Campaign for Historic Counties On my visit, the Mersey in Heaton Mersey

The County of #Westmorland is a mountainous shire, with some of the grandest scenery of the land.

Almost entirely rural, it is dotted with small villages and modest towns in the dales, each looking up at the fells.

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The #YorkshireRidings are wonderful indeed - look out for a video dropping soon on our YouTube channel about them…

Wiltshire is a county of the West Country.

Wholly landlocked, it has borders with five other counties.

#Wiltshire is characterised by its high downland and wide valleys.

Salisbury Plain lies in the heart of Wiltshire.

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The County of #WestLothian or Linlithgow is a shire on the south bank and at the head of the Firth of Forth.

Its county town is the royal burgh of Linlithgow, from which it takes its alternative name, #Linlithgowshire .

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Campaign for Historic Counties I love #Orkney ! This is its (brilliant) flag - a variation of #Norway 's, representing its Scandinavian links.

The County of #Wigtown is a shire in the south-western corner of Scotland.

#Wigtown shire is also known as West Galloway.

(Galloway being formed by Wigtownshire and neighbouring Kirkcudbrightshire together.)

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Campaign for Historic Counties Have you considered campaigning for the redesign of UK number plates to show county origin, as Switzerland and Austria do for their cantons and provinces? It would probably be popular.