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- Barsetshire – locale of Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire novel series; also used by various other authors.
- Borsetshire, containing the village of Ambridge, in the BBC's long-running radio drama The Archers
- Diddlesex – used in the satirical Punch magazine in the 1840s as the abode of an ex-servant who becomes rich.
- Downshire – location of the village of St. Mary Mead in The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (also stated to be in Radfordshire). It should be noted that Downshire can sometimes refer to the real County Down.
- Ffhagdiwedd – County Borough of South East Wales which forms the setting for Waliens, a novel by R.W. Finlan and Darren Bowker-Powis.
- Glebeshire – the setting of many of Hugh Walpole's novels.
- Glenshire – location of the seaside resort of Dilmouth in The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
- Loamshire, a generic rural English county, home of the Loamshire Regiment; used by George Eliot among other authors. In Donald Jack's play The Canvas Barricade, the butler is the rightful Duke of Loamshire. Kenneth Tynan was critical of a type of play he called 'the Loamshire play', an English middle-class country-house drama. He claimed this was almost the only type of play being written in 1950s Britain.
- Mangelwurzelshire - in The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Markshire – used in "Tragedy at Law" by Cyril Hare.
- Mallardshire – setting of one episode of Count Duckula.
- Mertonshire – setting of "The Horses of Diomedes" in The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie
- Middleshire - used as a setting in Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley and Hercule Poirot's Christmas and A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie
- Mortshire – used in the works of Edward Gorey.
- Midsomer – setting of Midsomer Murders.
- Naptonshire – setting for Home Defence training simulations of the 1970s, analogous to Northamptonshire
- Quantumshire – from Nebulous.
- Radfordshire – the setting for St. Mary Mead in some of the Miss Marple novels and short stories by Agatha Christie: but also stated to be Downshire. This county is close to or borders the fictional counties of Glenshire, Southshire and Middleshire.
- Rutshire – setting of the Rutshire Chronicles by Jilly Cooper
- Shroudshire – county mentioned in the American sitcom The Munsters.
- Slopshire – county in the West Country containing Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, home of Doctor Dolittle
- Southmoltonshire – rural county containing Rowcester Abbey in the novel Ring for Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
- South Riding of Yorkshire – setting for South Riding by Winifred Holtby.
- Stonyshire - adjoining county to Loamshire in Adam Bede by George Eliot
- Trumptonshire – setting of the interrelated TV series Camberwick Green, Trumpton, and Chigley
- Wessex – location of Thomas Hardy's novels
- Westershire – setting of Pie in the Sky
- Winshire – setting of The Midwich Cuckoos.
- Wordenshire – home of The Knight in DC Comics.
- Worfordshire or to be more precise South Worfordshire – the setting in English/Welsh borderlands for the novel Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe
- Wyvern, containing the city of Holby (based on Bristol), the setting for BBC drama productions Casualty, Holby City, and HolbyBlue
Read more about this topic: List Of Fictional Counties
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