Meanings of northern shires in English

And the great harrying of the northern shires was the price paid for William's kingship over them.

The Scots, and the people of the northern shires of England, have a useful word for bad humour, the sulks.

With more than half of Nottinghamshire's 66 seats declared, the Conservatives are on course for a clean sweep of the four northern shires.

Next below the county as a political subdivision of England came the hundred, or wapentake, as it was called in the northern shires.

The Northern shires had been too hard to win.

Birds in the Northern Shires, p. 207.

William's reign strengthened every tendency that way, chiefly by the fearful blow now dealt to the physical strength and well-being of the Northern shires.