Category: Travel Writing
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[A] BECCLES is a large and well-built town, situated on the river Waveny, which is navigable from this place to Yarmouth, and divides in its course the counties of Suffolk and N...
26. Part 26Near the last mentioned monument lies buried the celebrated Beau Nash, long master of the ceremonies at Bath. Richard Nash was a native of Swansea in Glamorganshire, and was bor...
18. Part 18David Ap Gwillym also beautifully alludes to this practice: "Oh, while thy season of flowers, and thy tender sprays thick of leaves remain, I will pluck the roses from the brake...
36. Part 36[A] BERWICK. The town is situated N. by W. from Newcastle. King Edgar gave it, with Coldingham, to the church of Durham; but it was afterwards forfeited by Bishop Flambard. It h...
30. Part 30Map|Names of Places.| County. | Number of Miles From | +--+----------------+----------+-------------+------------+ 3|Bedford[A] bo|Bedford |St. Albans 30|Oxford 55| 22|Bedford t...
24. Part 24[B] STEEPLE BARTON. In this parish is situated Rowsham, which was, for several centuries, the seat of the Dormers, and it continued in their possession until the decease of Gene...
11. Part 11[A] ASHE is situated in Musbury parish, which lies in the hundred of Axminster, two miles east by north from Colyton. It is the birth place of the celebrated John Churchill, Duk...
27. Part 27Map| Names of Places. | County. |Number of Miles From | +--+--------------------+----------+--------------+-------------+ 25|Battle Bridge ham|Middlesex |Holborn Bars 1|Paddingt...
22. Part 22[A] BARN-ELMS. On the adjoining common stood the house in which the members of the celebrated Kit Cat Club assembled. Their original place of meeting was in London, but Jacob To...
7. Part 7Map| Names of Places. | County.| Number of Miles From | +--+--------------------------+--------+-------------+-------------+ 57|Ambleston pa|Pembroke|Haverfrd.W. 5|Fishguard 3|...
10. Part 10Map| Names of Places. | County. | Number of Miles From | +--+----------------------+----------+--------------+--------------+ 42|Armscott ham|Worcester |Shipston 3|Evesham 10| 2...
4. Part 4This place gave birth to John Opie, whose persevering genius advanced him to the highest rank in his profession. He was born at Harmony Cot, in May 1761. The opening years of hi...
31. Part 31[B] BEERALSTON. This place once had the privilege of sending two members to parliament. It is chiefly inhabited by labourers employed in agriculture and mining. The borough was...
19. Part 19Map| Names of Places. | County. | Number of Miles From | +--+--------------------+---------+--------------+--------------+ 27|Bale pa|Norfolk |Holt 5|Cley 6| 37|Balham vil|Surre...
17. Part 17Map|Names of Places.| County. | Number of Miles From | +--+----------------+---------+-------------+------------+ 34|Babcary pa|Somerset |Somerton 4|Ilchester 5| 27|Babingley,[A...
15. Part 15Map| Names of Places. | County.| Number of Miles From | +--+----------------------+--------+--------------+--------------+ 39|Attleborough ham|Warwick |Nuneaton 1|Coventry 9| 27...
16. Part 16[C] AXBRIDGE. This town is one of the polling places for the eastern division of the county of Somerset, but the court for the election of the Knights of the Shire is at Wells....
32. Part 32[A] BELCHAMP, or Belchamp Wallers, in the hundred of Hinckford, lies north-east by north from Castle Headingham. The church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is lofty and neat, and...
12. Part 12[D] ASHFORD. This village is frequently called Ashford in the water, from the lowness of its situation. It is seated on the banks of the river Wye. The only remains of the resid...
8. Part 8[A] ANGLESEY (Isle and County of), forms one of the six counties of North Wales, and is situated at the north western extremity of the principality. It is watered on three sides...
13. Part 13Map| Names of Places. | County. | Number of Miles From +--+-------------------------+---------+--------------+---------------+ 41|Ashton-Steeple[A] pa & ti|Wilts |Trowbridge 3|M...
9. Part 9[D] APPLETON. This village was the birth place of the famous physician and chemist, Edmund Dickinson, who was born in the year 1624. At 20 years of age he went to the university...
28. Part 28Map|Names of Places.| County. | Number of Miles From | +--+----------------+----------+------------+------------+ 43|Beadlam to|N.R. York |Helmesley 3|Kirkby 2| 29|Beadnell to|N...
14. Part 14[A] ASTON. The village and manor of Aston was an ancient demesne of the Saxon kings. Henry VIII. granted the manor to Sir John Boteler, of Walton Wood Hall; but the house now st...
6. Part 6Map| Names of Places. | County. | Number of Miles From | +--+-----------------------+----------+------------------------------+ 41|Allington pa|Wilts |Amesbury 4|Salisbury 6| 41...
5. Part 5Map| Names of Places.| County. | Number of Miles From | +--+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------------+ 27|Aldeby pa|Norfolk |Beccles 3|Yarmouth 11| 18|Aldenham...
37. Part 37[B] BETTWS-Y-COED. At this village, which contains scarcely a hundred houses, is the picturesque bridge of Pont-y-Pain, beneath which is a famous salmon leap; and the road leads...
23. Part 23[B] GREAT BARRINGTON is a parish containing about 1000 acres, including some portion of Oxfordshire within its limits, as well as a small tract belonging to Berkshire. Previous...
21. Part 21[A] BARKING, in the hundred of Beacontree. The name is derived, according to some writers, from the Saxon words Beorce--a birch tree, and Ing--a meadow; but the most natural pre...
25. Part 25[A] BASINGWERK. This place is chiefly celebrated for the remains of its ancient abbey; for the vestiges of a house belonging to the Knights Templars; and for a castle, once the...
34. Part 34The keeper, easily divining the wicked wishes of his employer, put his royal master to death. According to another account, when the death of this unfortunate, but weak sovereig...
2. Part 2[C] ABERAVON is situated at the mouth of the river Avon, on Swansea Bay, and has a harbour for small vessels. Although no charter exists for a market, one has been held here, mo...
3. Part 3Map| Names of Places. | County | Number of Miles From | +--+-----------------------+----------+--------------+-----------------+ 37|Abinger pa|Surrey |Dorking 4|Guildford 10| 15...
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20. Part 20[B] BANSTEAD is celebrated for the excellent herbage which the neighbouring downs afford the sheep, which are highly prized for the delicate flavour of the mutton. There are man...
35. Part 35[A] BERKSHIRE. This county was originally inhabited by three tribes or nations, termed by the Romans Attrebates, Bibroces, and Segontiaci. The first occupied part of the west, t...
33. Part 33[C] BENNINGTON, called Belintone in the Domesday Book, was a seat of the Mercian kings; and here a great council of nobility and prelates was assembled about the year 850, under...
38. Part 38[A] BEWDLEY is seated on the Severn, in the centre of a populous manufacturing district; it was, in the reign of Edward I., a manor of the Beauchamps, and received from Edward I...