Talk:List of County Court venues in England and Wales

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Update needed?[edit]

It seems a few things have changed since 2010; the numbers of courts must be different—considering all the courts that were intended to be closed and probably have indeed closed—and a few other details as well, such as the Patent County Courts. I have updated a couple of things in the introduction, but it seems to me that a revision by someone knowledgeable in the subject would be needed to make sure this list is up to date. Waltham, The Duke of 08:17, 8 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps User:Bencherlite, the FLC nominator of this list, might be interested? Waltham, The Duke of 08:50, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Groan. Yes, I know it needs a rewrite, not least because there is now only one county court sitting in multiple venues. Bencherlite ^Talk 08:52, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, at least that wasn't just a reform for reform's sake... From what I'm reading, at least. Waltham, The Duke of 13:45, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ahem. I've been thinking that a map in the style of List of World Heritage Sites in the United Kingdom would be a valuable addition here, but the courts were too many in number for the result not to be an over-cluttered, unreadable mess. However, the recent closures (and the ones that may still happen) could well have made the map viable.

So I've been bold and taken advantage of a boring, rainy morning to start one (here), to see how it will look. Mind you, the image will almost certainly need to be bigger for the labels to have sufficient space (which won't be a problem if the map sits by itself in the middle, somewhere before or right after the list), and the London courts may be shown as a single name (bolded, with the number of courts in parentheses and a note in the caption), but it's in the early stages. Also, the map itself is provisional; there exists one for England and Wales but it uses different coordinates, and it's cropped too tightly as well, so I'll head over to Image requests for a version of the present map that simply includes Wales.

Please tell me what you think before I expend more time on this; perhaps you have good reasons to consider it a terrible idea. Waltham, The Duke of 09:08, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure it's terribly useful. It will basically be an overcrowded map of cities and major towns in England and Wales that adds nothing. I'm not sure how useful the world heritage sites map is, but at least that has many fewer entries. Already Basingstoke and Aldershot are overlapping, and we still have Portsmouth, Southampton, Winchester, Brighton, Lewes, Worthing, Canterbury, Chatham, Margate, Redhill, Hastings, Isle of Wight etc to add in the south-east (excluding for now courts under threat of closure or in the Greater London area). And the larger the map gets, the more it will generally disrupt the layout of the page. Thank you for trying but I don't think it will be the best use of your time to continue. Bencherlite ^Talk 12:44, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I see what you mean, and I am inclined to agree. I'll drop it then, though I have to say, I'm impressed with how easy it is to create maps like this nowadays, with all the specialised templates. The manual method I remember from earlier efforts (years ago), with pixel coordinates, looked absolutely excruciating. Waltham, The Duke of 13:16, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Old County Courts in London[edit]

Hi, I was looking for the address of the old Bloomsbury CC, and found this:

"There are several small debts' courts, now named County Courts, in the metropolis : viz., the Whitechapel County Court of Middlesex, held at Osborn Street, Whitechapel; the Shoreditch County Court, No. 12, Charles Square, Hoxton; the Bow County Court, at Bow; the Clerkenwell County Court, at Duncan Terrace, City Road; the Bloomsbury County Court, at Portland Road, Regent's Park [Great Portland Street after 1863]; the Brompton County Court, at Whitehead's Grove, Chelsea; the Marylebone County Court, at the New Road, opposite Lisson Grove; the Westminster County Court, at No. 83, St. Martin's Lane; the Southwark County Court, at Swan Street, Newington; and the Lambeth County Court, at Denmark Hill, Camberwell. These courts hold a summary jurisdiction over debts and demands not exceeding 20/." etc. Source:

Weale, John (1854). Pictorial Handbook of London. Bohn's Illustrated Library. London: Henry G. Bohn. pp. 93–94.

I'm not sure how easily this info could be incorporated into the table, but it might be useful to someone. MinorProphet (talk) 14:47, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]