26 Abergavenny.. hun Monmouth..
52 Abergele ....m. t. & pa Denbigh.
49 Abergorlech......chap Caermar...
49 Abergwilley....to & pa Caermar..
56 Aberhafesp
56 Aberhaly
49 Abermarles.
48 Aberlyfni..
49 Abernant.
54 Aberpergwm
56 Aber-Rhiw
51 Aber-Porth
48 Aberyskir

224

2506

209

214

2675

535

100

664

St. Asaph ..7 Holywell ...17 Aberconway 12 Llandilo Var 7 Lampeter .9 Caermar....14 Caermar....2 Llandilo Var15 Newcastle..16 ...pa Montgomery Newton,....3 Llanydloes. 11 Llanfair....10 180 ...to Montgomery Llanfair....6 Newton......5 Montgomery 10 180 ...to Caermar Llandovery.7 Llangadock..3 Lampeter...14 198 .ham Brecknock Hay. 4 Brecon .11 Builth... 12 160 pa Caermar Caermar... 4 Llaugharne. 10 Newcastle..11 222 .chap Glamorg Neath.....10 Brecon 20 Merthyr Tyd13 188 .pa Montgomery Welsh Pool.5 Montgomery.4 Newtown ...9 ..pa Cardigan Cardigan...7 Newcastle...9 Lampeter...24 235 pa Brecknock.. Brecon.....4 Llandovery. 16 Builth... 14 173 51 Aberystwith*.m. t. & pa Cardigan Tregaron..15 Machynlleth 18 Aberllelwyn .5 208 26 Aberystwith .pa & chap Monmouth.. Abergaven,.7 Crickhowell.7 Pontypool...8 153 4 Abingdont... ...m. t. Berks Oxford ..6 Wallingford.11 Wantage....10 56 5259

172

VENNY.

2429 485 110

4128

5992

4000 men

and remarkable for the beautifully composed landscape seen through it. ABERGA The style of building which forms the remains of this fortress marks its origin to have been subsequent to the Norman epoch. Excursions are frequently made to Blaenavon Iron Works, about six miles distant. Blaenavon which employ upwards of four thousand men. The mountainous Iron Works. territory containing these mineral treasures of iron, was demised by employed. the crown to the Earl of Abergavenny, and is held under a lease by Hill and Co. A principal excursion from Abergavenny is that which leads northwards to Llanthony Abbey, a majestic ruin, seated in Llanthony a deep recess of the black mountains, at the very extremity of Abbey, a Monmouthshire. Abergavenny is a place of much resort, being the ruin in the thoroughfare from the west of Wales to Bath, Bristol, and Gloucester- black shire. Its principal manufacture is flannel, and its annual fairs for cattle are well attended.

Mail arrives 2 P.M., departs 11 A.M.-Inns, Angel, and Greyhound.-Bankers, Hill and Co., draw upon Esdaile and Co.,-Jones and Co., draw upon Williams and Co.Fairs, May 14, lean cattle and sheep; 1st Monday after Trinity, linen and woollen cloths; September 25, horses, hogs, and flannel.-Market Tuesday.

majestic

mountains.

* ABERYSTWITH, a market town and seaport in the hundred of Glenaur Glynn, and also a township in the parish of Llanbadarn Vawr. It is situated at the confluence of the rivers Ystwith and Rhyddol, at which the former falls into the sea in the bay of Cardigan. The building of a castle, of which some vestiges remain, is attributed to Edward I. It stands on a craggy eminence projecting into the sea at the west of the town, and affords a magnificent view of the whole line of Welsh coast within the bay of Cardigan. The streets are steep and uneven.The houses, which are principally formed of dark slate, present a very singular appearance. For some years past its celebrity, as a summer retreat and bathing-place, has been annually increasing, which is greatly Five ba contributed to by the beauty of the neighbourhood, and the commanding thing-place. prospects around. The roads to it have been made excellent, and the customary amusements of plays and assemblies during the season add to the attractions for summer visitants. There was formerly a herring fishery, and the practice of fishing is still carried on with considerable advantage by the natives. About seven miles north of Aberystwith, on the sea coast, a considerable extent of land, has, by drainage, been recovered; twelve miles of embankment have been formed; and two Twelv navigable cuts, with a road of three miles and a stone bridge completed. miles of em Mail arrives 7 A.M. departs 5 P.M.-Fairs, 1st Monday in May and November, chiefly for hiring servants.-Bankers, W. Davis and Co., draw on Esdaile and Co.-Inns, Gogerddon Arms, Old Lion, and Talbot.-Markets, Monday and Saturday.

† ABINGDON, at the very edge of the county of Berkshire, was called Shovesham, by the Anglo-Saxons, until the foundation of the abbey, from which period it began to assume the name of Abbandeen,|

bankment.

Dist. Popu-

Names of Places.

37 Abinger.

15 Abinghall

28 Abington.

County.
pa Surrey
.pa Gloucester..
.pa Northam

Number of Miles from

Dorking....4 Guildford...10 | Ockley
Newnham..6 Mitchel Dean 1 Monmouth .12
Northam... 2 Wellingboro .9 Moulton.....3
6 Abington, Gt. & Lit. pa Cambridge.. Linton .....3 Cambridge...9 Newmarket. 12 50
6 Abington in the Clay pa Cambridge.. Royston ...5 Potton.......7 Cambridge.:15
23 Ab Kettleby.. ...pa Leiceister... Melton Mow.3 Leicester...16 Loughboro..13 108
15 Ablington.
....ti Gloucester..
10 Abney
..ham Derby

49 Above Sawdde....ham Caermar....
22 Above Town... ..div Lancashire
22 Abram
....to Lancashire.
15 Abson with Wick.chap Gloucester..
chap Northam ...
...pa Glamorg

21 Abthorp

54 Aburthin

46 Acaster Malbis

Fairford....5 Cirencester..7 Northleach..7 85
Tideswell...5 Sheffield....14 Chapel-Frith 8
Llangadock 1 Llandovery..7 Llandilo Var.8
Garstang..11 Burton.....11 Kirkby Lons.15
Wigan.....4 Bolton.. ..9 Chorley....11
Bristol..... 8 Sodbury.. .5 Marshfield...4 107
Towcester..3 Brackley. ..9 Banbury....15 63
Llantrissant 8 Bridgend....7 Cowbridge...1 173
Alford.. .2 Louth. .9 Horncastle..12
York. ...4 Selby.

Lond lation.

..5

27

767

103

164

112

195

803

240

591

197

511

824

477

142

204

..8 Tadcaster....8

190

707

24 Aby....

46 Acaster Selby

22 Accrington, New....to

22 Accrington, Old..chap Lancaster..
30 Achurch.
43 Acklam..

44 Acklam..

29 Acklington

45 Ackton

45 Ackworth*.

.chap N. R. York.

to Northum...
.to W. R. York.
.pa W. R. York.

Thrapston..4 Oundle. .4 Kettering...12
New Malton 6 Gt. Driffield. 15 York..
Yarm... ...5 Stockton.....3 Guisboro ..9 244
Alnwick. .8 Morpeth.. .13 Rothbury...13 300
Pontefract..3 Wakefield ...5 Leeds
7

3

ABINGDON. or the Town of the Abbey. This monastery, the monks of which were
Monastery Benedictines, was founded by Cissa, an Anglo-Saxon monarch, in 675.
of Benedic- During the reign of Alfred it was demolished by the Danes, and
tine monks. remained in ruins till King Edgar partly restored it, in 954. Ethelwold,

and his son
was edu-

cated here.
Jeffery of
Monmouth
buried in

the abbot at that time, erected and embellished the church, and his
successors contributed to its increase. After the Conquest, the wealth
and grandeur of the abbey were equal to any similar foundation in
William the England. William the Conqueror kept Easter in the abbey, A. D. 1084;
Conqueror and here was educated his youngest son, Henry, surnamed Beauclerc,
kept Easter, afterwards King Henry I., in whose reign, one of the most eminent
characters who received sepulture within the abbey, was the celebrated
Jeffery of Moumouth, author of the British History,—a work, from
which some of our best poets have derived materials for their sublime
compositions. Shakspeare's Lear, and Milton's Comus, were both
the abbey. supplied from Jeffery's history. He flourished in the reign of Henry I.
Among the natives of Abingdon, whose talents have rendered their
possessors eminent, was Sir John Mason, a statesman of the six-
teenth century.
His memory is the more worthy to be revered,
because, from a very obscure origin, his genius and perseverance
advanced him to the rank of privy-counsellor, ambassador to France, and
chancellor of the University of Oxford. His father was a cow-herd
and his mother, sister to one of the abbey monks, who attended to his
early tuition, and sent him to Oxford, where he became a fellow of
All Souls' college. While in this situation, the liveliness of his temper
occasioned him to be chosen to compliment Henry VIII. on his visit to
the University, in the year 1523, which being executed in a most
graceful manner, engaged the favour of the monarch, who promoted him
to the honourable offices above-mentioned. He died in 1566, and was
buried in St. Paul's cathedral.

Sir J. Ma-
son, born
here-his

father a
cow-herd.

Quakers'
school.

Mail arrives 2.49 A.M., departs 12.10 A.M.-Fairs, 1st Monday in Lent, May 6, June 20,
August 6, September 19, cattle; Monday before Old Michaelmas, statute, and December
11, horses and cattle.-Bankers, Knapp and Co., draw on Williams and Co.-Inns,
Crown and Thistle, and Queen's Arms.--Markets, Monday and Friday.

* ACKWORTH is a parish and township, in the upper division of
Osgold Cross Wapentake, nominally divided into higher and lower
Ackworth. It is celebrated for its Quakers' School, which was pur-
chased in 1777, with eighty-five acres of land, from the trustees of

29 Acomb West.

17 Aconbury+

21 Acrise

7 Acton

7 Acton 52 Acton 25 Acton. 29 Acton

..pa W. R. York. to Northumb.. to Northumb.. .chap Hereford

.pa Kent.

.to & pa Chester
..to Chester

.to Denbigh

5

882

Number of Miles from

Norwich...11] Yarmouth...9 Loddon .8
York .2 Wetherby... 10 New Malton 20
Corbridge .15 Aldston Moor 9 Hexham
18

121

820

201

11 275

36

.3 275

523

2453

91

Nantwich..2 Tarporley ...9 Middlewich.11 166
Northwich..4 Frodsham...7 Chester 15
Wrexham ..1 Holt...

..5

pa Middlesex.. Harrow.....8 Brentford ...3 Uxbridge...10 5 .to Northumb.. Alnwick....8 Rothbury....8 Morpeth....10 300 36 Acton. .pa Suffolk... Lavenham..3 Sudbury.. 3 Bildeston....8 42 Acton Beauchamp..pa Worcester Bromyard ..4 Worcester..11 Ledbury....10 122 33 Acton Burnellt. to & pa | Salop. Wenlock....7 Shrewsbury..7 Ch. Stretton. 7 155

the Foundling Hospital, and rendered a seminary for the children of the more humble class of Friends. The number of pupils, is one hundred and eighty boys, and one hundred and twenty girls.

* ACLE. Market, Thursday.-Fair, Wednesday before Michaelmas day.

There

ACKWORTH

† ACONBURY. At this place a nunnery of the order of St. Augus- Nunnery. tine was founded by Margery, wife of Walter de Lacey, in the reigni of King John. The Cliffords were large benefactors to this house, which, at the dissolution, possessed £75. 7s. 6d. per annum. are some remains yet standing, occupied as a farm house. On the summit of Aconbury Hill, a bold and extensive eminence, well wooded, and commanding a charming view over the adjacent county, are traces of a large encampment.

parliament

ACTON BURNELL is celebrated for the remains of an ancient castle, founded by Robert Burnell, bishop of Bath and Wells, a man of eminent abilities, first treasurer, and afterwards chancellor of England, who was much employed by King Edward I. in Welsh affairs. He died at Berwick, in 1292, and was buried in the cathedral at Wells. The castle is a quadrangular building, with a square tower at each corner. The hall in which King Edward I. held his parliament, in 1283, was Edward I. 183 feet long, by 41 broad, but the gable ends only remain. The held his Statutum de Mercatoribus enacted here, is from that circumstance better here in known as the Statute of Acton Burnell. The successor of the bishop, at 1283. the castle, was Sir Edward Burnell, son of Philip Burnell and Maud, daughter of Richard Arundel. He served in many actions in Scotland, under Edward I., and always appeared in great splendour, attended by a chariot decked with banners of his arms. He was summoned to parliament from the fifth to the eighth year of Edward the second's reign, and died in 1315. In 1346, the castle came into the possession of Nicholas Lord Burnell, who died in 1382, and is buried in the church under an altar tomb, inlaid with his effigy in brass. In the reign of Henry VI. the Lovell Lord Burfamily were in possession of this estate, which was forfeited by Lord nell's effigy Lovell, in consequence of his adherence to King Richard III. Henry the altar VII. being seated on the throne, granted Acton Burnell, together with tomb. other estates in this county, to Jasper Tudor, Earl of Bedford; after whose death it reverted to the crown, and Henry VIII. granted it to Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, distinguished for his valour at the battle of Flodden. Sir Humphrey Lee, of Langley, in this parish, was created

in brass on

a baronet, May 3, 1620. Acton Burnell Park is now the residence of Sir The seat of Edward Joseph Smythe, Bart. whose family have been seated here from Sir E. J. the time of Charles II., when Sir Edward Smythe, of Esh, in Durham, Smythe. created a baronet, Feb. 23, 1660, married the daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Lee, Bart. of Langley. The mansion, on a verdant lawn, bordered by a shrubbery, presents a handsome elevation of fine white stone, having a noble Ionic portico, under which is the carriage entrance.

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