Crown Court - Circuits

Circuits

Originally, the court was divided into six circuits as follows:

Circuit Area
North Eastern Northumberland, County Durham, Yorkshire
Northern Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire and part of Cheshire
Midland Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, part of Buckinghamshire, most of Oxfordshire, part of Berkshire
South Eastern Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, most of Buckinghamshire, part of Oxfordshire, most of Berkshire, Greater London, Surrey, Sussex, Kent
Wales and Chester Wales and most of Cheshire
Western Gloucestershire, part of Berkshire, Bristol, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall

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