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Wikipedia:WikiProject Rosblofnari/British Historic County Challenge

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This challenge is to have a DYK article written by two or more collaborators for every historic county of the United Kingdom.

County Article names Images Did You Know that...
 Bedfordshire
 Berkshire
 Buckinghamshire
 Cambridgeshire
 Cheshire
 Cornwall B3306 road
... that the B3306 road in Cornwall passes at least four Bronze Age or Neolithic sites?
 Cumberland
 Derbyshire
 Devon
 Dorset
 Durham
 Essex
 Gloucestershire
 Hampshire Oakley Hall ... that the Georgian Oakley Hall in Hampshire is now a hotel and conference centre?
 Herefordshire
 Huntingdonshire
 Kent All Saints Church, Lydd
... that All Saints Church in Lydd is the longest parish church in Kent at 199 feet (61 m)?
 Lancashire
 Leicestershire
 Lincolnshire
 Middlesex
 Norfolk
 Northamptonshire
 Northumberland
 Nottinghamshire
 Oxfordshire
 Rutland
 Shropshire
 Somerset Selworthy Beacon
... that in the sixteenth century, Selworthy Beacon (pictured) in Somerset was used as a beacon location to warn of impending invasions?
 Staffordshire
 Suffolk
 Surrey
 Sussex
 Warwickshire
 Westmorland
 Wiltshire
 Worcestershire
 Yorkshire
 Anglesey
Brecknockshire
 Caernarfonshire
Carmarthenshire
 Cardiganshire
Denbighshire
 Flintshire
 Glamorgan
Merioneth
 Monmouthshire
 Montgomeryshire
 Pembrokeshire Caldey Abbey
... that perfume critic Luca Turin considers the monks of Caldey Abbey to produce "simply the best lavender soliflore on earth"?
Radnorshire
 Aberdeenshire
 Angus
Argyllshire
Ayrshire
Banffshire
Berwickshire
Buteshire
Caithness
Clackmannanshire
Dumfriesshire
Dunbartonshire
East Lothian
Fife
Inverness-shire
Kincardineshire
Kinross-shire
Kirkcudbrightshire
Lanarkshire
Midlothian
Morayshire
Nairnshire
 Orkney
Peeblesshire
Perthshire
Renfrewshire
Ross-shire
Roxburghshire
Selkirkshire
 Shetland
Stirlingshire
Sutherland
West Lothian
Wigtownshire
 Antrim
 Armagh
 Down Mahee Castle
... that Mahee Castle, in Northern Ireland, has a bawn, a boatbay, and a murder-hole?
 Fermanagh
 Londonderry
 Tyrone