Sentence examples for eastern counties from inspiring English sources

"All windows down, all cushions hot," he wrote, as his train pulled through the eastern counties.

England only experienced one serious witch-panic, in the eastern counties during the 1640s.

In August 1643 he was appointed major general of the Parliamentary forces in the eastern counties, with Oliver Cromwell as his second in command.

Examples exist at Skipwith and Stillingfleet in Yorkshire, many in the eastern counties, others in Gloucester, Somerset, and the west Midlands.

Tim Aker is the Ukip MEP for the Eastern Counties and head of the party's policy unit – that is, he is drafting the manifesto.

Take a train between two UK towns, particularly in eastern counties, and almost all of the countryside you see is farmland.

The north-eastern counties were the worst affected.

Severe rioting lasted for two months and seemed to centre on the tricky question of why Northern Ireland, composed of six north-eastern counties in Ireland, is part of the United Kingdom.

Transport should be a natural Labour vote-winner: disaffection among suburban commuters surely helps explain the party's outstanding results in the outer London suburbs and south-eastern counties in the 1997 and even in the 2001 elections.

Another is a dramatic, if futile, bid among several rural north-eastern counties irked by state energy policy to secede from Colorado (wags dub the proposed new state "Fracktopia").Most of the new laws are backed by a majority of voters, says David Winkler of Project New America, a left-leaning think-tank.

Meanwhile, the area formally in drought is expected to extend beyond south-eastern counties to include parts of Yorkshire.