List of counties:
England
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire – Ninepins by Rosy Thornton (Cambridgeshire Fens)
Cheshire
Cornwall -
- Daphne du Maurier: a Daughter’s Memoir by Flavia Leng
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
Cumberland
Derbyshire
Devon
Dorset
Durham
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Middlesex
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Rutland
Shropshire
Somerset
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Warwickshire
Westmorland
Wiltshire
Worcestershire
Yorkshire
Scotland
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Argyllshire
- Ayrshire
- Banffshire
- Berwickshire
- Buteshire
- Cromartyshire
- Caithness
- Clackmannanshire
- Dumfriesshire
- Dunbartonshire
- East Lothian
- Fife
- Inverness-shire
- Kincardineshire
- Kinross-shire
- Kirkudbrightshire
- Lanarkshire
- Midlothian
- Morayshire
- Nairnshire
- Orkney
- Peeblesshire
- Perthshire
- Renfrewshire
- Ross-shire
- Roxburghshire
- Selkirkshire
- Shetland – White Nights by Ann Cleeve
- Stirlingshire
- Sutherland
- West Lothian – The Burry Man’s Day by Catriona McPherson (South Queensferry)
- Wigtownshire
Northern Ireland
- Antrim
- Armagh
- Down
- Fermanagh
- Londonderry
- Tyrone
Wales
- Anglesey
- Brecknockshire
- Caernarfonshire
- Carmarthenshire
- Cardiganshire
- Denbighshire
- Flintshire
- Glamorgan
- Merioneth
- Monmouthshire
- Montgomeryshire
- Pembrokeshire
- Radnorshire
I live in Peeblesshire in the Scottish Borders. Books from that county include O Douglas’s books about Priorsford (really the town of Peebles where I live). She was Anna Buchan, sister of John Buchan who wrote The 39 Steps. John Buchan also wrote Burnett of Barns, another book set in Peeblesshire. Barns Tower is still standing and in fact has been refurbished for self catering let. I’ve only just found you here so you may already know these books! I’ll be back!
Thanks, Evee – I haven’t read any of O Douglas’s books, although I have heard of them – more to look out for – I didn’t know they are set in Peebles.
How funny that I happened to look at your list and find Bedfordshire as number one in the English counties. I grew up in Bedford (in Beds), and although I now live in West Texas, I still have brother/mum/friends who all live there and go home about once/year. The only book that I can think of that is related to Bedfordshire might be Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), but honestly, I wouldn’t push that on anyone! :-}… I will check w my mum and see if she knows any books. I do know that one of the Capt Scott’s explorer team members from his 1913 trip to the Antarctic was born in Bedford, and he has a good journal from his trip to Antarctica back then. Perhaps that would count?
Thanks, Liz – what I’m actually hoping to do is to read books with a strong sense of location about the counties, but thanks for your suggestions. I have read Pilgrim’s Progress and don’t think it would qualify. I have Captain Scott’s South With Scott, which I keep meaning to read – again not about Bedfordshire! Maybe I should start a separate list of books by authors from the counties!