Home Counties, the counties over and into which London has extended—Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent, Surrey. The south-eastern circuit (see ASSIZE) is still sometimes called the 'Home Circuit,' though it includes, besides the home counties (except Middlesex), also Cambridge-shire, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
Home Counties
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 754
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