Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Nah, I think England would have to be carved up a bit further. Doesn't England have provinces?
Nah, I think England would have to be carved up a bit further. Doesn't England have provinces?
After the Normans, the Shires or county system can in (feudalism needing bigger bits of turf to carve up).
Then, Industrial Revolution happens and the cities explode - so there's (eventual) representation of the labourers in the cities as well as the landed rich (started maybe after Napoleonics Wars, continuing into Victoria).
What we are left with is a system of local government borders that changes with every election, and sometimes more often. Whole counties have disappeared, others have been invented (cities chopped off from their parent counties).
Not to mention the thorny question of the non-English bits of Britain - Wales and Scotland.
It's a mess. Don't even think about tidying it up.
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