If England has a garden, it is here. The Midlands shires are the epitome of the "green and pleasant land."
The suffix -shire is of Old English origin, deriving from scir , meaning an office, a charge, or a district. Historically, a shire was simply a piece of land managed by a royal official known as a "shire-reeve"—the origin of the modern word . english shires
: Each shire was managed by an official known as a shire reeve , which eventually evolved into the modern word Sheriff . If England has a garden, it is here