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Alton 10
57
459
35
Alrewas pa
Bromley 5
124
1607
35
Alewas Hayes dis ... 6
124
77
7
Alsager pa
Nantwich 8
157
446
10
Alsop-le-Dale pa
Winster 6
145
61
22
Alston to
c.l.i.theroe 9
222
1030
42
Alstone chap
Persh.o.r.e 7
101
78
35
Alstonefield pa & to
Winster 8
144
5169
22
Altcar chap
Prescott 13
214
505
8
Alternon pa
Bodmin 16
222
1069
22
Altham to & chap
Blackburn 6
212
413
14
Althorne pa
Rochford 6
42
352
24
Althorp pa & to
Glandford Br 12
165
981
27
Althorpe ham
Holt 10
111
9
48
Altmawr chap
Aberedwy 2
170
43
45
Altofts to
Pontefract 3
186
502
16
Alton[A] m.t. & pa
Farnham 10
47
2742
41
Alton Barnes pa
Pewsey 4
82
138
12
Alton Pancras pa
Sherborne 10
120
210
41
Alton Priors chap
Pewsey 4
82
205
7
Altringham[B] m.t.
Manchester 9
179
2708
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[A] ALTON is seated on the river Wye; it is a pleasant open town, consisting of three streets, of which the princ.i.p.al contains some handsome houses. It is governed by a constable appointed by the magistracy, and a petty sessions are held in the town. The district around is celebrated for the superiority of its hop plantations, and possesses manufactures of druggets, serges, and other worsted fabrics, which are dyed in the wool. It was at Alton that Sir William Waller, in December 1643, obtained some advantages over the forces of Lord Hopton, who had taken his post in the town, the regiment commanded by Colonel Bowles retreated to the church, but not having time to barricade the doors, threw down their arms, and surrendered; but the Colonel himself, refusing quarter, was slain on the spot. Amongst the celebrated men to whom this town has given birth, may be mentioned William de Alton, a Dominican Friar, who lived in the time of Edward II., and wrote on the universality of the pollution of mankind by original sin. John Pitts, the Roman Catholic Biographer, who was born in 1560, and died in 1616; and William Curtis the Botanist, who was born about 1746, and died in 1799.
_Market_, Sat.u.r.day.--_Mail_ arrives 2 A.M. departs 12-3/4 A.M.--_Fairs_, Sat.u.r.day before May, sheep and lambs, September 29, cattle and toys.--Commercial Banking Company, draw on Williams, and Co.--_Inn_, Swan.
[Sidenote: Celebrated for hops, and manufactures in serges and other worsted fabrics.]
[Sidenote: Church converted to a fortress.]
[B] ALTRINGHAM is a very neat market-town in the parish of Bowden, and hundred of Bucklow, near which the Duke of Bridgewater's ca.n.a.l pa.s.ses from the Mersey at Runcorn, to Manchester; it possesses several factories of yarn, cotton, and worsted, and the vicinity supplies the markets of Manchester well with fruit and vegetables. This town was anciently a fee for the barons of Dunham Ma.s.sey, one of whom granted to it a guild mercatory in the thirteenth century.
_Market_, Tuesday.--_Mail_ arrives 4-1/2 A.M., departs 9-1/2 P.M.--_Fairs_, April 29, August 5, November 22, for cattle and drapery.--_Inns_, Bowling Green and Unicorn.
[Sidenote: Yarn, cotton, and worsted manufactories]
Map
Names of Places.
County.
Number of Miles From
+--+------------------------+----------+-------------+-------------+ 7
Alvanley chap
Chester
Frodsham 3
Warrington 9
7
Alvaston to
Chester
Sandbach 9
Middlewich 10
10
Alvaston to & chap
Derby
Derby 4
Kegworth 8
40
Alvechurch[A] pa
Worcester
Bromsgrove 4
Redditch 4
41
Alvediston pa
Wilts
Hindon 7
Wilton 8
33
Alvely pa & to
Salop
Bridgenorth 6
Bewdley 8
11
Alverdiscott pa
Devon
Bideford 4
Barnstaple 6
16
Alverstoke pa
Hants
Gosport 1
Tichfield 6
45
Alverthorpe to
W.R. York
Wakefield 1
Leeds 7
30
Alverton ham
Notts
Newark 7
Bingham 7
31
Alvescott pa
Oxford
Burford 5
Bampton 3
15
Alveston[B] pa
Gloucester
Thornbury 3
New Pas 6
39
Alveston pa
Warwick
Stratford 2
Warwick 7
35
Alveton pa & to
Stafford
Cheadle 4
Uttaxeter 6
24
Alvingham pa
Lincoln
Louth 4
Saltfleet 8
15
Alvington ham
Gloucester
Blakeney 6
Coleford 6
19
Alwalton pa
Hunts
Peterboro 5
Stilton 6
11
Alwington pa
Devon
Bideford 4
Torrington 6
45
Alwoodley to
W.R. York
Leeds 4
Ottley 5
17
Amberly ham
Hereford
Hereford 6
Bromyard 9
38
Amberly pa
Suss.e.x
Arundel 4
Petworth 4
16
Ambersham, North ti
Hants
Midhurst 3
... 4
16
Ambersham, South ti
Hants
... 3
... 4
29
Amble to
Northumb
Alnwick 9
Morpeth 11
35
Amblecoat ham
Stafford
Stourbridge 1
Dudley 4
40
Ambleside[C] m.t. & chap
Westmorlnd
Kendal 13
Helvelyn 8
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Dist.
Map
Names of Places.
Number of Miles From
Lond.
Population.
+--+------------------------+------------------------+-----+-------+ 7
Alvanley chap
Chester 10
188
341
7
Alvaston to
Whitchurch 11
164
46
10
Alvaston to & chap
Burton 12
124
364
40
Alvechurch[A] pa
Birmingham 11
114
1548
41
Alvediston pa
Shaftesbury 9
92
239
33
Alvely pa & to
Cleobury 9
133
836
11
Alverdiscott pa
Torrington 4
200
334
16
Alverstoke pa
Fareham 6
79
12637
45
Alverthorpe to
Dewsbury 5
183
4859
30
Alverton ham
Southwell 9
118
16
31
Alvescott pa
Whitney 6
74
361
15
Alveston[B] pa
Bristol 9
119
800
39
Alveston pa
Henley 9
96
650
35
Alveton pa & to
Ashbourn 8
42
2391
24
Alvingham pa
Grimsby 18
153
292
15
Alvington ham
Chepstow 7
128
281
19
Alwalton pa
Wandsford 5
80
294
11
Alwington pa
Barnstaple 12
206
486
45
Alwoodley to
Wetherby 8
193
142
17
Amberly ham
Leominster 8
135
25
38
Amberly pa
Worthing 11
51
637
16
Ambersham, North ti
Haslemere 6
49
121
16
Ambersham, South ti
... 6
49
183
29
Amble to
Felton 6
301
247
35
Amblecoat ham
Wolverhamp 8
122
1157
40
Ambleside[C] m.t. & chap
Winanderm 1
278
1095
+--+------------------------+------------------------+-----+-------+
[A] ALVECHURCH is situated in the middle division of the hundred of Halfs.h.i.+re; it was formerly a borough and governed by a bailiff, chosen annually at the court of the lord of the manor. The church is a large structure of Anglo Norman architecture, but the tower is modern. It however contains many ancient monuments: a hospital was founded here by Nicholas Lewkenor, of Hadsor, in 1580. The bishops of the county formerly had a palace here. Bishop Brain, Chancellor of England, in the reign of Edward III., to whom the Black Prince, wrote a circ.u.mstantial account of the battle of Poicters, died here in 1361. Bishop Latimer put it in repair in the reign of Henry VIII., it seems to have been merely a timber building. It has not been inhabited by any Bishop since the restoration, and was nearly a century ago, entirely pulled down, when the park was converted into farms. The river Arrow, which rises in the Lickey Hills, runs through the parish, towards Beoley Park, and Warwicks.h.i.+re; and the Ikenield Street, also pa.s.ses it. This town formerly consisted of several streets, but is now fallen into decay, it however, receives some benefit from the Worcester ca.n.a.l, which pa.s.ses it, and joins the Stratford-and-Avon ca.n.a.l, at King's Norton.
[Sidenote: Church of Anglo Norman architecture.]
[Sidenote: Dilapidations of time.]
[B] ALVESTON. This parish contains the vestiges of two Roman camps; the one on the top of a hill called Oldbury, near the Severn; the other called Castle Hill; in both which places, various relics of antiquity have been discovered.
[Sidenote: Two Roman camps.]
[C] AMBLESIDE is seated on the decline of a hill, at the extremity of the romantic lake Winandermere, of which a branch pa.s.ses through the town. It is held by Horsley, to be the site of the Roman Dictus. It is scarcely in the power of language to do justice to the romantic beauties of this neighbourhood; perhaps the most beautiful scenery in England, is to be found in its vicinity. Here is an extensive manufactory of woollen cloth.
_Market_, Wednesday.--_Fairs_, Wednesday after Whit-Sunday, for horned cattle October 29, ditto and sheep--_Mail_ arrives 9-1/2 A.M., departs 7 A.M.
[Sidenote: Site of the Roman Dictus.]
Map
Names of Places.
County.
Number of Miles From
+--+--------------------------+--------+-------------+-------------+ 57
Ambleston pa
Pembroke
Haverfrd.W. 5
Fishguard 3
31
Ambrosden pa & to
Oxford
Bicester 2
Aylesbury 14
24
Amcotts ham
Lincoln
Burton 4
Glandford 10
5
Amersham[A] bo. m. t. & pa
Bucks
Aylesbury 14
Chesham 3
41
Amesbury[B] m.t. & pa
Wilts
Salisbury 7
Stone-Henge 3
+--+--------------------------+--------+-------------+-------------+
Dist.
Map
Names of Places. Number of Miles From
Lond.
Population.
+--+--------------------------+---------------------+-----+--------+ 57
Ambleston pa
Newport 10
266
574
31
Ambrosden pa & to
Oxford 12
51
914
24
Amcotts ham
Epworth 9
165
359
5
Amersham[A] bo. m. t. & pa
Beaconsfield 5
26
2612
41
Amesbury[B] m.t. & pa
Andover 14
77
544
+--+--------------------------+---------------------+------+-------+
[A] AMERSHAM, or Agmondesham is situated on the Misbourne, a branch of the river Colne. The town which is seated in a vale between two wooded hills, consists of a long street on the road from Uxbridge to Wendover; it is intersected about the centre, by a cross street from Chesham to High Wycombe, at the point of which stands the church. The market is held in the Market House, or Town Hall, built by Sir William Drake, about 1680; it is a brick building supported by pillars and arches, with a lanthorn and clock, and said to be the handsomest in the county.
Amersham was a parliamentary borough by prescription, but by the Reform Bill of 1832, is now disfranchised. The church was extensively repaired in 1778, in the chancel of which are monuments of the family of the Bents of Leicesters.h.i.+re, who had a seat in the parish; and a monument of Henry, son of Sir Patrick Curwen, Bart., who died in 1638; and also several monuments of the Drake family, in the chancel and the adjoining mausoleum; among which are those of Montague Gerrard, by _Sheemaker_, and the wife of the late Mr. Drake, by Henry Cheere. About a mile northward from the town, is Shardeloes Park, the seat of Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake: the estate was formerly in the possession of the Brudenell's, which family terminated in a peeress, and brought Shardeloes to the Cheynes; afterwards it became the seat of William Totehill, Esq., where he entertained Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses. Francis Drake, of East Sherwin, Surrey, who was one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to James I., married Jane, the daughter and heiress of William Totehill, Esq. The mansion is beautifully situated on the brow of a hill, overlooking an immense sheet of water, covering thirty-five acres, and commands a delightful prospect, particularly towards the east, where the town of Amersham, and the surrounding eminences, covered with wood, present a very picturesque appearance. The gardens, formerly much admired for their beauty, were originally formed by Sir William Drake, about 1666, but have been modernized by Richmond, for the late proprietor. Here is also a Free Grammar School, the scholars of which are ent.i.tled to three exhibitions in Corpus Christi College, Oxford, bequeathed by Dr. Challoner, a canon of Windsor, in 1620; and likewise four alms houses, with other minor charities. The manufactures are chiefly lace, sacking, and all kinds of white cotton, wrought by machinery; and the markets are well attended.
_Market_, Tuesday.--_Fairs_, Whit-Monday for horned cattle, and September 19, for cattle, and statute.--_Inns_, Crown and Griffin.--_Mail_ arrives 7 A.M., departs 9-1/4 P.M.
[Sidenote: Town Hall, built by Sir W. Drake, 1680.]
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