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Cornwall, county, England

(Encyclopedia)Cornwall, county, SW England, administratively (since 2009) a unitary authority. Bodmin was the county seat, but the local government is now based in Tr...

Chatham, town, England

(Encyclopedia)Chatham, town, Kent, SE England, on the Medway River. Chatham, Rochester, and Gillingham form a contiguous urban area that is now the unitary borough of Medway. Chatham was a major naval station, with...

Chelmsford, city, England

(Encyclopedia)Chelmsford, city, county seat of Essex, SE England. It is a market center (especially for cattle) for the surrounding agricultural district. Manufacture...

Church of England

(Encyclopedia)Church of England: see England, Church of. ...

Chester, city, England

(Encyclopedia)Chester, city, Cheshire West and Chester, W central England, on a sandstone height above the Dee River. It is a railroad junction. Manufactures include ...

Essex, county, England

(Encyclopedia)Essex, county, 1,520 sq mi (3,938 sq km) SE England, on the Thames River and the North Sea, one of the “Home Counties” of London. Chelmsford is the ...

England, Church of

(Encyclopedia)England, Church of, the established church of England and the mother church of the Anglican Communion. In the first half of the 19th cent., the Catholic and apostolic character of the Church of Engl...

Falmouth, town, England

(Encyclopedia)Falmouth fălˈməth [key], town, Cornwall, SW England, on a small peninsula between Falmouth ...

Rochester, town, England

(Encyclopedia)Rochester, town, SE England, on the Medway River, chief town of the borough of Medway, which also includes Chatham and Gillingham. Cement, heavy machinery, electronic equipment, precision tools, and c...

Sheffield, city, England

(Encyclopedia)Sheffield, city and metropolitan borough (1991 pop. 470,685), N England, at the confluence of the Don River and four tributaries. Sheffield was one of the leading industrial cities of England. It has ...