Vice Counties (UK)

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Scope note(s)

  • a geographical division of the British Isles. It is also called biological vice-county as it is used for purposes of biological recording and other scientific data-gathering, or sometimes called a Watsonian vice-county as vice-counties were introduced by Hewett Cottrell Watson in the third volume of his Cybele Britannica, published in 1852.

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Display note(s)

  • vice county borders do NOT match modern administrative borders

Hierarchical terms

Vice Counties (UK)

Vice Counties (UK)

Equivalent terms

Vice Counties (UK)

  • UF VC

  • UF Vice-county

  • UF vice county

  • UF vice-counties

  • UF Watsonian vice-county

Associated terms

Vice Counties (UK)

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