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Identifier: topographicaldic01capp (find matches)
Title: A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom ..
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Capper, Benjamin Pitts
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Publisher: London : Printed for Richard Phillips
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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abitants, being 52,821 mules and of Berkley, Gloucester, 15 miles from Glon- 56,394 females,of whom 16,021 werereturiicd tester, and 113 from London, pleasantljsituated on the Little Avon, a branch of theyevern; containing 97 houses and 658 inha-bitants. It is an ancicnccorporate town, un-der a mayor and twelve aldermen, and has a as being employed in trade and inauufacturL-,and 38,155 iu aghcultare. It is in the Ox-ford circuit, the jjrovince of Canterbury,aiid diocese of Salisburj; and sf>nds 9 mem-bers to parliament; being 2 for the countj, 2, ■court cv hundreds, viz. Beynhurst, Bray, jjas.iiiv:; the. adiacont CQuntry coiLsistiiig Charlton, Compton, Cooknam, iaiivross, ciiii fly of rich nieauow lands, being particu- Farriuijdon, GuuiieW, Iloiuicr, Kintbui-y I
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BER BER If ISat^le, T^mbonrn, Moreton, Ock, Readintr,Ripplesmore, Shri^eiiham, Sunning, Tlieale,Wantage, and Wargrave. Its market townsare Abingdon, Farringdon, Kungerford, Eastj Ilsley, Lambouni, Maidenhead, Newbury,Ockinghain, Reading, Waliingford, Wan-tage, and Windsor. It? principal river isthe Thames; it has also the Kennett, (greatpart of which is navigable,) the Loddon, theOcke, and tlie Lambourn, a small stream■which, contrary to most other rivers, is highestin summer, and sinks gradually as wiuterapproaches. The -(vestern and middle partsof the county are now fertile; the eastern ischiefly occupied by Windsor forest and itsappendages, and has much land uncultivated.A range of chalk hills crosses from Oxford-shire, and bounds the noted vale of WhiteHorse, so called from the gigantic tigure of ahorse of great antiquity, rudely channelled onthe naked side of a chalk hill. This vale pro-duces excellent corn, besides several gooddairy farms. About Newbury peat is dug, andused fo

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