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west midlands

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Man, imagine if you were one of the ‘Bright Ones’, and you were trekking up to see the ‘New Castle’, and you’d heard it was in the land ‘north of the Humber’, and thought “can’t be much further now” when you got the The Humber.

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Back durong the Heptarchy pretty much everything north of the Humber was the Kingdom of Northumbria. The Danes took the southern half of the Kingdowm, leaving a Northumbria rump state over the approximate location of modern day Northumberland/Tyne and Wear.

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reference for the uninitiated like me ☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_England

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For those wondering why these borders don’t match up: England’s county system is actually the butchered remains of several iterations stitched together in a manner that would appal Dr Frankenstein. This image shows the historic counties, but those basically only exist for cultural reasons today and have not been used for governance since the 70s. They don’t quite match the post - see, for example, Yorkshire being one massive thing in this image but split into four in the post. Even though one of the four is called “east third”. The post’s border also don’t match the modern counties though, so I’m not quite sure what exactly is being shown, but it could be older borders or just whichever borders had the most interesting set of names

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The West Midlands is stolen land !

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This is the one that matches OP’s map:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England

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Feeling kinda dorceless about some of these names.

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North People kind of triggers me.

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That one is basically still understandable in modern English too

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The north folk and the south folk.

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