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Place name County Entry Source BRISTOL Gloucestershire
SomersetBRISTOL , a city, with special jurisdiction, on the mutual border of Gloucester and Somerset. It includes eighteen town parishes, and Imperial CARDIFF Glamorgan Caer-Taf, "the port of the Taff," or Caer-Didi, "the port of Didius." Didius was a Roman general, who succeeded Ostorius, in the command of the legions; and is thought to have had a camp here, on the Julian way. Jestyn-ap.Gwrgan, lord of Glamorgan, removed hither from Caerleon; raised some fortifications on the spot, probably around a previous stronghold; and gave assistance to the overthrow, in 1091, of Rhys, Prince of Wales. The Norman Fitzhamon, with twelve knights, had been taken into alliance with him; but turned against him, fought and defeated him on a battle ground Imperial CARLISLE Cumberland Caer, their word for a fort; and the name Caer-Luel passed, in course of time, into Carleol and Carlisle. Roman altars, inscriptions, vases, coins, and other relics have been found within the city; and Roman roads went Imperial CARNARVON Caernarvonshire Caer-Seiont and Caer-Custeint,-"the fort of the Seiont" and "the fort of Constantine;" and, on building a strength of their own in its vicinity, within a district then named Arfon, called this Caer-yn-Arfon, now changed into Carnarvon. The Welsh prince had their seat here till 873, when they went Imperial CLUN Shropshire went, in the time of Elizabeth, to the Dukes of Norfolk; and passed to the Walcots and the Earls of Powis. There are several ancient British and Roman remains, particularly at Offa's dyke, the Bury ditches, and Caer Imperial COLCHESTER Essex Caer-Colun by the Britons, Camelodunum by the Romans, and afterwards Colunceaster or Colneceaster by the Saxons. British or Roman roads went Imperial DONCASTER Yorkshire DONCASTER , a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district in W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands Imperial EXETER Cornwall
DevonCaer-Isc, "the city of the water, " from its situation on the Exe, -anciently Isc, signifying "water;" and Caer-Rydh, "the red city, " from the colour of the soil around it. It was called, by the Romans, Isca et Legio Secunda Augusta, from its having been occupied by the Augustan legion; and Isca Damnonioum, from its having belonged to the British Damnonii, and to distinguish it from Isca, afterwards Usk, in Monmouthshire. It was called, by the Saxons, Exan-Cestre or Exacestre, signifying "the castellated city of the Exe;" and that name passed, in course of time, through the forms Imperial LEICESTER Leicestershire LEICESTER , -popularly LESTER, -a town, six parishes, two sub-districts, and a district in Leicestershire. The town stands on the Imperial MERIONETH, or MERIONETHISHIRE Merionethshire went through the county northward, by Roman camps at Pennal, CefnCaer, Castell-Prysor, Maentwrog, and Rhyd-ar-Helen, to Tommen-y-Mur, anciently called Hereri-Mons; and the Sarn Hir way, or Southern-Watling-street, went thence, by Caer Imperial MONTGOMERYSHIRE, or MoNTGOMERY Montgomeryshire went from their Caer-Sws station on the Sarn Hîr way near Newtown. Another Roman station was at Meifod Imperial OXFORD Berkshire
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Oxfordshire
WiltshireOXFORD , a city and a university in Oxfordshire, partly also in Berks, and a diocese comprehending nearlyall Oxfordshire and Berks Imperial SHAFTESBURY Dorset Caer-Palladwr, to the Saxons as Scaeftesbyrig, and at Domesday as Sceptesberie; is now sometimes called Shaston; is conjectured to have been a Roman station; was either restored or built, about 888, by Alfred; acquired then a great Benedictine nunnery, which gave it high and long importance; was made a mint town by Athelstan; suffered devastation, in 1003, by the Danes; had three mints in the time of Edward the Confessor, and twelve churches at Domesday; acquired an hospital of St. John before the time of Richard II.; was given, by Edward VI., along with its nunnery, to the Wriothesleys Imperial WINCHESTER Hampshire
SurreyWINCHESTER , a city, a district, and a division in Hants, and a diocese comprehending all Hants, most of Surrey, and Imperial WORCESTER Herefordshire
Oxfordshire
Warwickshire
WorcestershireWORCESTER -popularly Wooster-a city and a district in Worcestershire, and a diocese partly also in Warwickshire, Herefordshire, and Oxfordshire 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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