Surrey (also Surry) is the easternmost and the smallest by area of the three historic

counties A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...

into which

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

is divided. It was created in 1758, and is divided into four parishes. Jamaica parishes numbered2

''The county of Surrey is shown in yellow''

History

Jamaica's three counties (Surrey, Middlesex and Cornwall) were established in 1758 to facilitate the holding of courts along the lines of the British county court system. Surrey was named after the English county in which

Kingston upon Thames Kingston upon Thames, colloquially known as Kingston, is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, England. It is situated on the River Thames, south-west of Charing Cross. It is an ancient market town, notable as ...

is found. Kingston was its

county town In Great Britain and Ireland, a county town is usually the location of administrative or judicial functions within a county, and the place where public representatives are elected to parliament. Following the establishment of county councils in ...

Parish

⁽¹⁾ Kingston Parish and Saint Andrew Parish together form ''Kingston and St Andrew Corporation''.
⁽²⁾ Kingston Parish does not encompass all of Kingston.

References

{{Authority control Counties of Jamaica 1758 establishments in the British Empire