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Place name County Entry Source ABERGLASNEY Carmarthenshire Glasney, near Llandilofawr, in Carmarthen. It once belonged to the Dyers, one of whom was the poet of "Grongar Hill." Imperial CARMARTHEN Carmarthenshire hill, celebrated in the descriptive poem of Dyer. The guild hall, in the middle of the town, is a large Imperial Carron Stirlingshire hill screens. The river, both where it leaves the lake and over the first 7½ miles of its course, runs among the Lennox Hills, overhung by summits of from 1000 to 1870 feet above sea-level; it afterwards debouches on the low grounds and carses of the E of Stirlingshire, tracing the boundary between the parishes of Denny and Falkirk on the S, of St Ninians, Dunipace, Larbert, and Bothkennar on the N; till, after an easterly course of 20 miles, it glides into the Firth of Forth at Grangemouth. Highland in character, bleak and wild, among the hills Groome DUBLIN Dublin DUBLIN , the metropolis of Ireland, and a city and county of itself, in the province of LEINSTER, situated in 53 Lewis:Ireland Dyers Hill Yorkshire Dyers Hill , eccl. dist., Sheffield par., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, pop. 10,073. Bartholomew DYER'S-HILL Yorkshire DYER'S-HILL , a chapelry in Sheffield parish, W. R. Yorkshire; near Sheffield town and r. station. It was constituted Imperial Edinburgh Midlothian Edinburgh, the metropolis of Scotland and county town of Midlothian, is situated 2 miles S of the Firth of Forth Groome Glasgow Lanarkshire
RenfrewshireGlasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of Groome Grongar Hill Carmarthenshire Hill , eminence, mid. Carmarthenshire, on river Towy, 3½ miles SW. of Llandilofawr; is the subject of a descriptive poem by Dyer Bartholomew GRONGAR HILL Cardiganshire HILL , an eminence in Cardigan; on the river Towy, 3 ½ miles WSW of Llandeilo-fawr. Its top commands a charming view; shows traces of an ancient camp; and has a hawthorn tree, under which Dyer Imperial HEREFORDSHIRE, or Hereford Herefordshire Dyer:- '' Pleasant Siluria, land of various views, Hills, rivers, woods, and lawns, and purple grovcs Pomaceons, mingled with the curling Imperial LLANARTHNEY Carmarthenshire hill. Middleton Hall is the seat of E. Abadan, Esq. A monument to Nelson, in the form of a triangular tower, is on the other side of the Towy from Dryslwyn Castle, and was erected by Sir William Paxton. Grongar Hill, in the vicinity, and approached through Dynevor Park, commands a very fine view, is crowned by vestiges of an ancient camp, was sung by the poet Dyer Imperial LLANGATHEN Carmarthenshire hill, projecting into the Towy's valley; and is now represented by extensive earth-works, ivy-covered walls, and a tower. Grongar hill possesses interest in connexion with verses of the poet Dyer Imperial LONDON London
LondonDyer, the author of ''the History of Cambridge University; ''Edward V.; Bishop Egerton; G. Ellis; the Earl of Essex, who died in 1646; Etherege, the wit; Farnaby, the scholar; Nicholas Ferrar, Mark-lane; Bishop Fleetwood; Fletcher, the dramatist; Folkes, the antiquary, St. Giles; Forbes, the traveller; Fosbrooke, the antiquary;J. Fox, Conduit-street, off Bond-street; Gale, the theologian; Gale, the antiquary; Gataker, the theologian, Lombard-street; George III., Norfolk House; G. Gibbons, Westminster; A. Gill, Milton's teacher; Glover, Westminster; Mary Godwin or Wolstonecroft; R. Gough, Winchester-street; Gray, Cornhill; Matthew Green, author of" the Spleen; ''Maurice Greene Imperial LONDONDERRY Londonderry LONDONDERRY (County of), a maritime county of the province of ULSTER, bounded on the south and south-west by the Lewis:Ireland MARGARET (ST.) WESTMINSTER Middlesex Dyer, Southey, Sir Harry Vane, Sir Christopher Wren, Hakluyt, Locke, South, Atterbury, Warren Hastings, Gibbon, Cumberland, the elder Colman, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and Earl Russel; and has a schoolroom which was a domestic appurtenance of the Abbey, a college hall which was the Abbot's refectory, and a dormitory which was built in 1722 by the Earl of Burlington. The green-coat school, or hospital, was founded in 1633 by Charles I., and rebuilt in 1700 by Dr. Busby; is for 25 scholars; and has an endowed income of £723. The grey-coat school, or hospital, was founded Imperial Paisley Renfrewshire Paisley, a large parliamentary burgh in the Upper Ward of Renfrewshire and in the NE part of the county. It Groome SHEFFIELD Yorkshire Dyers-Hill, Ecclesall-Bierlow, Fulwood, Gillcar, Heeley, Hollis-Croft, and Pitsmoor. Twelve of the livings are vicarages, and the other Imperial
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