0 a county, now used in combination in the names of many British counties:
Oxfordshire
Moreover, we have the lowest per capita fire service spend of all the shires.
If we are allowed to refuse massive development in the shires, far more houses will be built in the inner cities.
The shires and cities are beginning to voice their opposition together.
They tend to get a little lost in the shires.
We are working with metropolitan authorities to identify ways of taking the policy forward there as well as in the shires.
Our agents, the county councils in the shires, normally design the works or approve the developer's design.
Local people do not identify with the new county but with the historic shires.
I am not greatly familiar with the hierarchy of the shires.