Middlesex
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English
Etymology
From Old English Middelseaxan (literally “Middle Saxons”), which stood for both Middlesex and its people.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Middlesex
- A former inland county of England, partly absorbed into the erstwhile County of London in 1889; finally abolished in 1965 and absorbed mainly into Greater London, the south-west corner of the county becoming Spelthorne Borough and included in Surrey. The whole county, in whatever form, had the Thames as its southern boundary.
- 1958 June, J. Spencer Gilks, “Railway Development at Kingston-upon-Thames—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 450:
- A station on the Middlesex bank [of the Thames] was provided to serve Hampton Wick.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A borough in Middlesex County, New Jersey.
- A town in Yates County, New York.
- A town in Nash County, North Carolina.
- A township in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
- A township in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
- A town in Washington County, Vermont.
- An unincorporated community in Accomack County, Virginia.
- The central of the three historical counties of Jamaica, bordered by the counties of Cornwall in the west and Surrey in the east; named for the English county.
- A locality in Central Coast council area, Kentish council area and the Meander Valley council area, northern Tasmania, Australia.
- A rural locality in the Shire of Manjimup, South West region, Western Australia.
- Ellipsis of Middlesex County.
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