"The Fictional Counties of England?" Topic

Struck me while reading the excellent Jodi Taylor--who has a good grasp of history and some skirmish game potential--that she's running three series (Regency SF and arguably Horror) all set in the county of Rushfordshire. Place names persist over a period of centuries.
Then I turned to Josephine Tey's To Love and be Wise, which appears to be close by in the county of Orfordshire, through which runs the Rushmere River. (Next to it is a county so featureless that the county regiment's march includes the line "six trees and a haystack.)
We're all familiar with Loamshire, of course. And British actors learn "Mummerset" which suggests a county of that name.
Would anyone else care to add some non-existent counties which might have imaginary county regiments?

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Solweyshire
Jedishire
Clannland
Cowland
Curdyshire
Wheyshire
Mayswall
Saladene
Fallowland
Cumbershire
Griffwalader
Homesby
Whatmorland

Thank you. How could I have failed to check Wikipedia? I even have a map of Barsetshire.

East Glasonbury
Old Norwhich
Dunfoundedshire
Twaddle Upon Trent

Surely Twaddle Upon Trent is a village? (Or, as we say on TMP, a small BUA?) Not far from Whimsey on Wye, perhaps?

Thomas Hardy's Wessex.

Thomas Hardy's Wessex.

Included in the link I posted above.

Bassetshire

Trumptonshire had its own military based at Pippin Fort.

And no one has yet mentioned Borsetshire, home of The Archers?

The famous villages;
Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Norton
Loose Chippings

And no one has yet mentioned Borsetshire, home of The Archers?

Included in the link I posted above.

The famous villages;
Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Norton
Loose Chippings

??? The first two are real places.

What's the one used by the police? I don't think its Naptonshire? Has its own fictional motorway.

Nobody mentioned the most dangerous place in Britain…Midsomer!

Nobody mentioned the most dangerous place in Britain…Midsomer!

Again, included in the link I posted above.

Robert is quite right – Twaddle Upon Trent is a village, the county seat of Twaddleshire and just down the river from its sister village – Dogpoop Upon Trent

One of my good friends created Rumplestilkinshire wherein many great ECW and Medieval adventures ensued.

The origins of the names of real English counties gives all sorts of pointers to potential imaginary ones. For example, Hampshire is a shortened version of it original name, Southamptonshire … with Southampton as its county town.

So adding the word ‘shire' after the name of the imaginary county's county town gives you a county's name. Hence, Barchester is the county town of Barchestershire.

Just to make things inexplicable to non-Brits, we have real life examples where the name as written is pronounced differently. Examples are Worcester/Worcestershire which is pronounced Wooster/Woostershire and Gloucester/Gloucestershire which is pronounced Gloster/Glostershire.

Within a few miles of where I live in South East London we have some interesting place names in Kent and Essex:
Badgers Mount
Pratt's Bottom
Fawkham Green
Mucking Flats
Fobbing Marshes

Here are some more…

Fenneshire
Pottshire
Emannway (Wales?)
Cally (Wales?)
Fanrossex
Densfolk
Crabbsmouth
Nordensex
Layyk
Missulbyshire
Wisdunnshire.

Shouldn't that be Wisdenshire ?

Shouldn't that be Wisdenshire ?

Darwinshire (gossip has it that the locals are severely inbred… ;-)

Some would say that's Norfolk…

"Thomas Hardy's Wessex".

Isn't that just Wessex. the old Saxon Kingdom that's divided into the counties Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset?