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Middlesex
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vertical Flag of Middlesex.svg Flag of Middlesex (en Q19186) Middlesex Brit Isles Sect 5.svg Middlesex (en Q19186) within the United Kingdom
Etymology
From en ang Middelseaxan Middle Saxons, which stood for both Middlesex and its people.
Pronunciation
en /ˈmɪdl̩.sɛks/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Middlesex.wav Southern England
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Middlesex.wav US
Proper noun
en Q19186 en former inland county cc/England, partly absorbed into the erstwhile County of London in 1889; finally abolished in 1965 and absorbed mainly into Greater London, the south-west corner of the county becoming Spelthorne Borough and included in Surrey. The whole county, in whatever form, had the Thames as its southern boundary.
en 1958 June J. Spencer Gilks Railway Development at Kingston-upon-Thames—1 Railway Magazine 450 A station on the Middlesex bank [of the Thames] was provided to serve Hampton Wick.
en number of places c/USA:
en bor in co/Middlesex County s/New Jersey. TopoZone: Middlesex, New Jersey
en town co/Yates County s/New York.
en town co/Nash County s/North Carolina.
en twp co/Butler County s/Pennsylvania.
en twp co/Cumberland County s/Pennsylvania.
en town co/Washington County s/Vermont.
en ucomm co/Accomack County s/Virginia.
en The central of the three <<historical counties>> of <<c/Jamaica>>, bordered by the counties of <<county/Cornwall>> in the west and <<county/Surrey>> in the east; named for the English county Historical counties of Jamaica.
en locality carea/Central Coast carea/Kentish and the carea/Meander Valley northern s/Tasmania c/Australia.
en rural locality shire:Pref/Manjimup r:suf/South West s/Western Australia.
en Middlesex County.
Derived terms
en Middlesex Centre Middlesex County Middlesex gallows North Middlesex Southwest Middlesex
Related terms
en Essex Sussex Wessex
References