Middlesex and Buckinghamshire

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Middlesex and Buckinghamshire are historic English counties that once bordered each other to the west and northwest of London.

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Label Occurrences
Middlesex and Buckinghamshire canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf historic county
administrativeStatusChange largely absorbed into Greater London in 1965
borderDirectionFromLondon northwest
west
borders Buckinghamshire
London
linked to: London, England

Middlesex
linked to: County of Middlesex
ceremonialCounty yes
contains parts of present-day Greater London
town of Aylesbury
town of High Wycombe
linked to: High Wycombe

town of Milton Keynes (historic county association)
country England
crossedByRiver River Great Ouse
River Thames
linked to: Thames
formerAdministrativeCounty yes
hasHistoricAssociationWith Chiltern Hills
City of London
Westminster
linked to: City of Westminster
historicBorderWith Bedfordshire
Buckinghamshire
Hertfordshire
Middlesex
linked to: County of Middlesex

Northamptonshire
Oxfordshire
Surrey
historicCountyTown Aylesbury
Brentford
Clerkenwell
historicStatus historic county of England
landscapeFeature Chiltern Hills
locatedIn south-east England
linked to: South East England
nonMetropolitanCounty yes
partOf England
presentDayMainArea Greater London
presentDayRegion South East England
statusAfter1965 no longer administrative county
statusAfter1974 retained as administrative county with boundary changes
traditionalRegion Home Counties

How these facts were elicited

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Colne River historicallyMarkedBoundaryBetween Middlesex and Buckinghamshire