neck of woods vs shire

neck of woods

shire

verb
  • County Longford was shired in 1586 

  • To (re)constitute as one or more shires or counties. 

noun
  • A shire horse. 

  • The general area in which a person lives or comes from, used in the context of travel within the United Kingdom. 

  • A rural or outer suburban local government area of Australia. 

  • Physical area administered by a sheriff. 

  • Former administrative area of Britain; a county. 

How often have the words neck of woods and shire occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )