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    Place name County Entry Source
    Ayr Ayrshire Ayr, the capital of Ayrshire, is a seaport, a seat of manufacture, and a royal and parliamentary burgh. It stands Groome
    BATH and WELLS Somerset Monkton, Norton-Fitzwarren, Oake, Orchard-Portman, Runnington, Staple-Grove, Stawley, and Thorn-Falcon; the vicarages of Bradford, Creech-St. Michael, North Curry, Halse, Kingston, Bishops Imperial
    BERWICK-BASSETT Wiltshire vicarage, united in 1866 with Winterbourne-Monkton, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of S. Imperial
    BISHOP-MONKTON Yorkshire BISHOP-MONKTON , a township-chapelry in Ripon parish, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to the Northeastern railway, 1½ mile NE of Wormald Imperial
    BISHOPSTONE Wiltshire Monkton-Farleigh; and contains two stone coffins, which are supposed to hold the remains of bishops. Charities, £10.-The subdistrict Imperial
    CANTERBURY Kent
    Surrey
    CANTERBURY , a city in Kent, and a diocese in Kent and Surrey. The city partly forms a district of itself Imperial
    EXETER Cornwall
    Devon
    Bishop, Christow, Doddiscombsleigh, Drewsteignton, Dunsford, Gidleigh, Hittisleigh, Tedburn-St. Mary, Throwleigh, and Whitstone; and the vicarages of Holcombe-Burnell, Spreyton, and South Tawton. The deanery of Honiton contains the rectories of Combpyne, Cotleigh, Farway, Gititsham, Honiton, North Leigh, South Leigh, Musbury, Offwell, Roosdown, Up-Lyme, and Widworthy; the vicarages of Axminster, Axmouth, Colyton, Shute, Membury, Seaton, and Stockland; and the p. curacies of Kilmington, Monkton Imperial
    Freedom Paper Mill Yorkshire Freedom Paper Mill , at Bishop Monkton, near Ripon, West-Riding Yorkshire. Bartholomew
    GOSPORT Hampshire Bishop Henry de Blois. But the town, so late as the time of Henry VIII., was a mere fishing village; and even now, owes all its prosperity to connexion with the town and dockyard of Portsmouth. It is, in fact, for most practical purposes, a part of Portsmouth; and it has been regularly fortified by redoubts, bastions, counterscarps, and other works, which look to be a segment of the fortifications of Portsmouth, underwent extension in and before 1865, and are of such a character as to form a thorough defence against attacks by either sea or land. High-street commences Imperial
    HONITON Devon bishop of Llandaff, stands on the top of Honiton hill 1½ mile distant, and commands a bird'seye view of Honiton vale. A weekly market is held on Saturday; great cattle markets are held on the second Saturday of April, and the Saturday before 18 Oct.; and a fair for cattle and horses is held on the Wednesday and Thursday after 19 July. The manufacture of serge, introduced to England by the Flemish refugees in the time of Elizabeth, struck very early root in Honiton, but long ago declined. The manufacture of pillow lace, also introduced by the Flemish Imperial
    KNARESBOROUGH Yorkshire Bishop of Ripon. The pcuracies of Bilton, High Harrogate, Arkendale, Trinity Church and Brearton, are separate benefices; and there are a chapel of ease and a school in Brearton. John Metcalf, a man of much talent and enterprise, commonly called Blind Jack of Knaresborough, who lost his sight when four years old, and died in 1810 at the age of 90, was a native of the town. The sub-district contains the K., the S. with-T., and B. townships of Knaresborough parish; the Goldsborough and Flaxby townships of Goldsborough parish; the Plompton township of Spofforth parish; the Farnham, Scotton Imperial
    MONKTON-FARLEIGH Wiltshire MONKTON-FARLEIGH , a parish, with a village, in Bradford-on-Avon district, Wilts; adjacent to the river Avon, the Great Western railway, and the boundary with Somerset, 3½ miles NW by N of Bradford r. station. Posttown, Bradford-on-Avon. Acres, 1,796. Real property, £2,967; of which £203 are in quarries. Pop., 352. Houses, 73. The manor belongs to the Bishop Imperial
    PORTSMOUTH Hampshire bishop of Winchester; retains only the chancel of the original structure; and was restored and partly rebuilt in 1866-7, at a cost of £3, 520. Asmall graveyard is connected with it; has been usedchiefly for naval and military officers dying at Portsmouth; and contains the grave of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Charles Napier, the conqueror of Scinde. The parish church, or St. Thomas', stands in St. Thomas'-street; was built in 1210-20, by Peter de Rupibus; retains only the chancel and some other small portions of the original structure; was mainly rebuilt, in very bad taste Imperial
    RIPON Yorkshire bishop; and, on his translation to Durham in 1856, Dr. R. Bickersteth succeededhim. The cathedral establishment includes the bishop, the dean, four canons, eleven honorary canons, two arch-deacons, a chancellor, and two minor canons. The income of the bishop is £4, 500; of the dean, £1,000; ofeach of the canons, £500; of each of the archdeacons, £200; of the chancellor, £250; of each of the minor canons, £300. The diocese comprehends all parts of W. R. Yorkshire westward of the eastern boundaries of the parishes of Nun-Monkton Imperial
    St Quivox Ayrshire Monkton, NE and E by Tarbolton, SE by Coylton, S by Ayr, and W by Newton-upon-Ayr and Monkton. Its utmost length, from ENE to WSW, is 4 3 / 8 miles; its breadth varies between ¾ mile and 2 7 / 8 miles; and its area is 4930½ acres, of which 54½ are water. The beautiful river Ayr curves 5¼ miles west-south-westward along all the south-eastern and southern boundary, its banks in places being steep and wooded. The surface rises north-eastward to 228 feet above the sea at Brocklehill; but the southern Groome
    TAUNTON Somerset Bishops-Hull, and West Monkton parishes. Electors in 1833, 949; in 1863, 827. Pop. in 1851, 14,176; in 1861, 14,667. Houses Imperial
    WILTS, or Wiltshire Wiltshire Monkton-Fields. Ancient British boundaries are presented in Wans-dyke and Bokerley ditch. An ancient British road is the Ridgeway. Ancient British villages are traceable on Salisbury plain. Barrows, of four kinds, stud all the chalk hills and valleys. Ancient camps, variously British, Roman, Saxon, and Danish, are in numerous places. Roman roads are the Fosse-way, Ermine-street, the Julian way, and roads from Old Sarum to Bath, Dorchester, Uphill, Winchester, and Silchester. Norman castles have left remains or mounds at Ludgershall, Wardour, Marlborough, Malmsbury, Devizes, Castlecombe, and Sherrington. Monastic remains are at Laycock, Bradenstock, Monk-Farleigh, Kingswood, Kingston Imperial
    YORK Yorkshire YORK , a city, a district, an ainsty, and a diocese, in Yorkshire. The city stands on Watling-street, on the Imperial
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