A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HALLAMSHIRE, an ancient lordship on the S border of W. R. Yorkshire. It is sometimes said to have been nearly or quite conterminate with the parishes of Sheffield and Ecclesfield; but it really cannot now be defined, and perhaps was mainly identical with Nether Hallam. It figured at Domesday as Hallam, and belonged then to Earl Waltheof. The name Hallam is peculiar; looks to have had a Frisian origin; and probably was derived from the great tribe of the Halling or Halsing. The lordship belonged to the Waltheof family for a considerable time before the Norman conquest; passed to a female heiress of that family in 1075; passed afterwards to the Earls of Northampton; had a seneschal in the time of Edward I.; and partly belongs now to the Duke of Norfolk.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "an ancient lordship" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Yorkshire AncC |
| Place names: | HALLAM | HALLAMSHIRE |
| Place: | Hallamshire |
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