The Home Counties

People on horseback, people in carriages and coaches, people driving carts and wagons passed along the king’s highways out of the city of London, going south over the river, north into Middlesex (now included in the county of Greater London) and Hertfordshire, east into Essex, west through the villages of Chelsea and Kensington into Surrey and north-west into Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. All these, with the exception of Essex, were known, until after World War II, as the Home Counties. The culinary traditions of Kent and Sussex have been considered as part of the South and South East of England and those of Essex as part of East Anglia.