The home counties are the counties of South East England and the East of England that encircle London, but do not include the capital city itself. There is no exact definition of the term and the composition of the home counties is sometimes a matter of debate.
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“Our sympathies in Massachusetts are not confined to New England; though we may be estranged from the South, we sympathize with the West. There is the home of the younger sons, as among the Scandinavians they took to the sea for their inheritance.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)