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Shire town - Definition and Overview |
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A shire town is another term for county seat or county town, meaning the place a county's government is based.
The term's only official use is for the capital city or town of a county in the U.S. state of Vermont, in contrast to the use of "county seat" elsewhere in the United States.
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