What are shires?

Some articles on shires, shire:

Tom Shires - Selected Publications - Books
... Shires GT, Carrico CJ, Canizaro PC. 13) (Saunders, 1973) (ISBN 0721682502) Shires GT, ed ... Shock and Related Problems (Churchill Livingstone 1984) (ISBN 0443029016) Shires GT ...
Anglo-Scottish Border - History - Middle Shires
... King James VI I decreed that the Borders should be renamed 'the Middle Shires' ... The rough-and-ready Border Laws were abolished and the folk of the middle shires found they had to obey the law of the land like all other subjects ... Courts were set up in the towns of the Middle Shires and known reivers were arrested ...
Local Government Areas Of The Northern Territory - Shires
... Belyuen Shire Barkly Shire Central Desert Shire Coomalie Shire East Arnhem Shire Roper Gulf Shire MacDonnell Shire Tiwi Islands Shire Victoria Daly Shire West Arnhem Shire ...
The Shires Shopping Centre - The Shires Gateway
... District Council in 2007 for the development of a site on Bythesea Road, to be named "The Shires Gateway" ... their store from the main town centre, Argos Extra, who moved their store from The Shires, and 5th Avenue Coffee ...
Lockyer Valley Region - History
... of the Local Authorities Act 1902, the borough and divisions became a town and shires respectively on 31 March 1903 ... on 8 February 1917, and Laidley absorbed part of the Shire of Rosewood ... On 3 September 1938, Tarampa was renamed the Shire of Gatton ...