Holland

From Old Dutch holt lant (“wood land”). A popular but false etymology holds that it is derived from hol land (“hollow land”), inspired by the low-lying geography of both the Dutch and the English region (Holland, Lincolnshire).

A number of places in the United States:

A minor city in Faulkner County, Arkansas.

Chattooga County
Chattooga County#English

An unincorporated community in Chattooga County, Georgia.

Missaukee County
Missaukee County#English

A township in Missaukee County, Michigan.

Kandiyohi County
Kandiyohi County#English

A township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota.

Pipestone County
Pipestone County#English

A minor city in Pipestone County, Minnesota.

Hunterdon County
Hunterdon County#English

A township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

An unincorporated community in Wake County, North Carolina.

La Crosse County
La Crosse County#English

Sheboygan County
Sheboygan County#English


Anglia

From Latin Anglia, referring to the Angles.

A region of England, more properly called East Anglia.


Greater London

An administrative area in England combining the City of London, the City of Westminster and 31 other London boroughs.


Lake District

Preëminently is the Lake District suited for the jaded and worn, who seek in solitude and amidst scenery unmoiled and unsullied by human artifice, refreshment alike of body and spirit.

1889, The Wesley Naturalist, volume 2, page 143:

A region and national park in Cumbria, north-western England, characterised by its many lakes.


Weald

(British) The physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.


East Anglia

east + Anglia (the area occupied by the Angles)

The area of eastern England occupied by Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Cambridgeshire.


East Midlands

A district in the geographical centre of England, being the counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire.


Silicon Fen

The area of high-tech businesses around Cambridge, England.


Forest of Dean

Unknown. Possibly related to Welsh din (“fort, stronghold”), or to Dane.

A local government district in Gloucestershire bordering onto Wales, formed in 1974 and with its headquarters in Coleford.


Northumbria

/nɔːˈθʌm.bɹɪ.ə/

A Latinised form of Middle English Northhumbre, from Old English Norþhymbre, a variant of Norþanhymbre (“Northumbia", also "Northumbrians”). Equivalent to North + (of the River) Humber.


Black Country

From black + country - from the smoke and heavy industry of the area, well known as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

[…] and with the two promised Sheffielders, Driver Elliott and Fireman Lewis, we were soon on our way over the most unapproachably dreary region of the whole run, scarcely to be paralleled in the Black Country itself.

1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:

An area in the West Midlands of England; traditionally seen as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.


Wessex

Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy's Wessex
Wessex

From Middle English Westsex, from Old English Westseaxan (literally “West Saxons”), which stood for both Wessex and its people. The use of Wessex in a modern context for the West Country was popularised by Thomas Hardy, who used the term for his semi-fictional setting based on the region.

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And I said I’d couch-surfed around Wessex and Wales and had a good time, and the train ride from Devon to Scotland was long and smoky […]

2001, James R. Babb, River Music: A Fly Fisher’s Four Seasons, →ISBN, page 154:

Crop circles are found in other parts of the globe, but not many. The 55 that have been spotted so far this year in Britain – mostly in Wessex – are more than half the total number observed throughout the world.

2010 August 19, Clive Aslet, “Crop circles: The mystery that keeps us going round in circles”, in The Daily Telegraph:

The Wessex area – which includes Bristol, Somerset, Dorset, south Gloucestershire and parts of Wiltshire – has been declared in drought status.

2022 August 30, “All of south-west of England in drought, says Environment Agency”, in The Guardian:


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the Midlands (a region of England, United Kingdom)


North East England

The high banks of the rivers of North East England have led to the shipment of coal from staiths by the simple process of shooting it down gravity spouts from bottom-door wagons.

1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 10:

An official region of England (one of nine, since 1994), within the United Kingdom. Comprises Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham as well as a small part of North Yorkshire.


New Forest

A civil parish (served by Marske and New Forest Parish Council) in Richmondshire district, North Yorkshire, England.


Peak District

A large area and national park in northern England.


South Downs

An area of chalk downland, in southern England


Midlands

McCarthy will point to their bad luck but the statistics now show that Wolves have lost four league matches and have claimed one point from a possible 15 - so it may prove to be another difficult season for the Midlands side.

2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:

(British) A loosely-defined culturally distinct area of England, corresponding to the central horizontal band of England, now administratively realized as regions of East and West Midlands.


Lindsey

en-proper noun

Lindsey (countable and uncountable, plural Lindseys)

From Old English Lindesege, ultimately from Proto-Brythonic *llɨnn (“pool”), from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”) (as in Lincoln) + Old English ēġ (“island (of land)”).

A division of Lincolnshire, England; that was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom

A village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL9845).

A habitational surname from Old English.

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.


Pennines

A range of hills stretching through north central England.


Lakeland

A city, the county seat of Lanier County, Georgia, United States.


Potteries

(British) An area in the West Midlands of England based around Stoke-on-Trent, a centre of the pottery industry.


Home Counties

From Caro, the British colonel's wife, now ferrying around anti-tear gas solvent kits and bottled water, her toenails painted a riot of different colors, her posh Home Counties diction already absorbing the shortened vowels of our southern African dialect.

2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:

All the English counties surrounding London.


West Country

Coordinate term: North Country

The south west of England, especially Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset.


English Midlands

A culturally distinct region in the centre of England


Σάσεξ

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Σάσεξ • (Sásex)

Sussex (a region and former country in southeast England)


Σάσσεξ

Σάσσεξ • (Sássex)


Fens

A proprialization from the common noun fen.


Cornuaille

French: Cornouaille, Cornouailles


Cornuaille

desctree

Middle French: Cornuaille
French: Cornouaille, Cornouailles

Norman: Cornouaille

→ Middle English: Cornwayle, Cornewaile, Cornwail, Cornwaile, Cornwaille, Cornwale, Cornwayl, Cornweyle (in part)
English: Cornwall

→ Italian: Cornovaglia

→ Old Galician-Portuguese: Cornoalha
Galician: Cornoalla
Portuguese: Cornualha

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin Cornugallēnsis, of Celtic/Brythonic origin. More at Cornouaille.


Lancashire over the sands

The part of modern Cumbria on the north side of Morecambe Bay that was historically part of Lancashire


Nortumbria

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Nortumbria f (related adjective nortumbryjski)

nortumbryjski (adjective)
Nortumbria (nominative singular)
Nortumbrii (genitive singular)
Nortumbrii (dative singular)
Nortumbrię (accusative singular)
Nortumbrią (instrumental singular)
Nortumbrii (locative singular)
Nortumbrio (singular vocative)

(historical) Northumbria (Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the Northeast of England)


North Downs

From north + downs. Downs, meaning "hills", coming from Middle English doun and, in turn, from Old English dūn (“hill, mountain”).

An area of chalk downland in Kent and Surrey, south-east England.


Kesteven

One of the three traditional divisions of the English county of Lincolnshire.


Chiltern

en-proper noun

Chiltern (usually uncountable, plural Chilterns)

Unknown, but thought to derive from a Celtic toponym, presumably related to height. The other placenames derive from the English hills.

CHILTERN, a chain of chalky hills, running from eaſt to weſt through Buckinghamſhire.

1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184

Chiltern Hundreds
Chiltern Hundreds#English

(historical) Short for Chiltern Hundreds.

(historical) A former local government district in Buckinghamshire, England, abolished on 31 March 2020.


Chiltern Hills

A hilly region in southern England, extending from Oxfordshire through Buckinghamshire into Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.


Malvern Hills

Hereford and Worcester
Hereford and Worcester

A local government district of Worcestershire, England, which was in Hereford and Worcester from creation in 1974 until 1998.


Sedgemoor

a low-lying area of land in the Somerset Levels in Somerset, England.

A local government district of Somerset, which includes some of the Somerset Levels and some surrounding areas.


Salisbury Plain

A chalk plateau, mostly in Wiltshire, England, that is rich in archaeology.


Northhumbre

English: Northumber (obsolete)

From Old English Norþhymbre, variant of Norþanhymbre.


North West

North West (South African province)
North West England

A region of England, consisting of the counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.


Breckland

A local government district in Norfolk formed in 1974 and named after the region, with its headquarters in Dereham


Mendip Hills

a range of limestone hills in Somerset, England


Westseaxan

Westseaxan (nominative plural)
Westseaxan (accusative plural)
Westseaxna (genitive plural)
Westseaxum (dative plural)

late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Of Seaxum, þæt is of þām lande þe mon hāteð Ealdseaxan, cōman Ēastseaxan ⁊ Sūðseaxan ⁊ Westseaxan.

From the Saxons, that is, from the land known as Old Saxony, came the East-Saxons and South-Saxons and West-Saxons.


Tierras Medias Occidentales

the West Midlands (a metropolitan country and region of England)


Abbotsford

A region of West Sussex, England, United Kingdom


North East

(UK) A region of England, consisting of the counties of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and the part of North Yorkshire that was part of the former county of Cleveland or the former county borough of Teesside.


Canolbarth Lloegr

Canolbarth Lloegr
Ganolbarth Lloegr (soft)
Nghanolbarth Lloegr
Chanolbarth Lloegr

English Midlands
English Midlands#English

the English Midlands (a region of England)


Gorllewin Canolbarth Lloegr

Gorllewin Canolbarth Lloegr
Orllewin Canolbarth Lloegr (soft)
Ngorllewin Canolbarth Lloegr


Dwyrain Canolbarth Lloegr

Dwyrain Canolbarth Lloegr
Ddwyrain Canolbarth Lloegr (soft)
Nwyrain Canolbarth Lloegr


Ardal y Llynnoedd

Ardal y Llynnoedd
Hardal y Llynnoedd (prothesis-h)

Lake District (a region and national park in Cumbria, north-western England)


Gogledd-orllewin Lloegr

Gogledd-orllewin Lloegr
Ogledd-orllewin Lloegr (soft)
Ngogledd-orllewin Lloegr