Which traditional English county was historically divided into 'Rapes'?
East Sussex County Council published the plans round July 2018). The council said that unless funding from central government increases, a core offer {not giving services to many elderly people who would otherwise qualify} would be the most services it could afford to provide. Unless local authority finances improve radically, even this very basic level of local authority service may be unaffordable by 2021. Sussex was historically divided into six sub-divisions known as rapes. From the 12th century the three eastern rapes and the three western rapes had separate quarter sessions: the county town of the three eastern rapes was Lewes. This position was
Divided regions Divided regions Divided regions are transnational regions, islands, etc. (i.e. areas that are known under a common name) that may have at one time been a united sovereign state but are or have been subsequently politically divided by national borders, into separate sovereign and/or administrative divisions. The later qualification includes many reorganized regions within nation states blurring the pure "transnational" distinction, but retaining the sense of a historic region once governed together which is significant both historically and culturally. Typically the divided parts still retain the common geographical placename, or a variation thereof, and may or may not be subject