county town

the town in which a county's affairs are or were administered

Words nearby county town

It is the county-town; and hither, in 1660, the sheriff-court was removed from Kincardine by Act of Parliament.

The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain Vol. 1 |William Finden
He must avoid the prison and the county-town, of course; while both New York and Canada offered him ultimate chances.

The Wild Olive |Basil King
Resuming our peregrinations 'in search of the picturesque,' we now bid farewell to the county-town of Pembroke.

Nooks and Corners of Pembrokeshire |H. Thornhill Timmins
He was merely continuing his Leicester work, appealing, not to a county-town, but to the nation at large.

The London Pulpit |J. Ewing Ritchie

Alnwick, the county-town of Northumberland, is delightfully situated on the south of the River Aln.

Grace Darling |Eva Hope