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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CAMBRIDGE	Cambridgeshire	CAMBRIDGE , a university town, the capital of Cambridgeshire. It stands on the Via Devana, the river Cam, and the Eastern	Imperial
  Coldingham	Berwickshire	Horsley Hill, 614 near Brockholes, and 560 at Brockhole Hill-heights that belong to an eastern extension of the Lammermuirs. The rocks are chiefly Silurian, with intrusions, however, of trap; the soils are various and not particularly fertile. A considerable aggregate of flat arable land forms the bottom of the valleys; and just about the middle of the parish is ` Coldingham Moor, ' a tract of between 5000 and 6000 acres, which, once a mixture of moor, forest, and moss, looked in last century a treeless waste, but now in great measure has been reclaimed and brought under the plough. About	Groome
  DAVIDS (St.)	Pembrokeshire	west of the city, rises from a plain to the height of about 100 feet, and stoops precipitously to the sea. An ancient fortification, a stone rampart from 75 to 100 feet broad, called Clawdd-y-Milwr, goes across the neck or isthmus of the headland. A range of cliffs to the north has a picturesque appearance; and a summit on them, called Carn-Llidi, commands a very extensive and magnificent view. A cromlech is on St. David's Head; a rocking-stone, now dismounted, is at the foot of Carn-Llidi; and several other Druidical antiquities and ancient British	Imperial
  DURHAM	County Durham	Horsley, Mitford, and Woodhorn; and the p. curacies of Heyburn, Nether-Whitton, Cambe, Ulgham, Widdrington, Horton, New-biggen, and Widdington. The deanery of Norham contains the rectory of Ford; the vicarages of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Branxton, and Norham; and the p. curacies of Ancroft, Scremerston, Cornhill, Carham, -Holy-Island, Kyloe, Lowick, and Tweedmouth. The deanery of Rothbury contains the rectories of Elsdon, Ingram, and Rothbury; the vicarages of Alnham, Allenton, and Whittingham; and the p. curacies of Hallystone, Byrness, and Horsley. The archdeaconry of Northumberland comprises the deaneries of Bellingham, Corbridge, Hexham, and New-castle-upon-Tyne. The deanery	Imperial
  GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL	Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire	GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL , a diocese comprehending all Gloucestershire, the deaneries of Cricklade and Malmsbury in Wilts, and the parish of	Imperial
  GLOUCESTERSHIRE, or Gloucester	Gloucestershire	west of the Severn, in their Britannia Secunda; and the whole of it eventually, in their Flavia Cæsariensis. It was the seat of much warfare in the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasion; it became subject, at the end of that invasion, to the West Saxons; and it afterwards formed part of the kingdom of Mercia. It was, for a time, much harassed by the Danes, under their general Gurmon or Gurmundus; it submitted quietly to the Norman conqueror; it performed distinguished acts in the subjugation of Wales; it took part with Queen Maude against King Stephen	Imperial
  GUILDFORD	Surrey	Horsley, West Horsley, East Clandon, West Clandon, Merrow, and Shere; and the sub-district of Godalming, containing the parishes of Godalming	Imperial
  Horsley, West	Surrey	Horsley, West , par. and vil., W. Surrey, 6 miles NE. of Guildford, 3022 ac., pop. 597; P.O.	Bartholomew
  HORSLEY (WEST)	Surrey	WEST) , a village and a parish in Guildford district, Surrey. The village stands 3¼ miles N by E of Gomshall r. station, and 6 ENE of Guildford; and has a post office under Ripley.—The parish comprises 2, 993 acres. Real property, £3, 135; of which £10 are in chalk pits. Pop., 706. Houses, 145. The property is divided among a few. The manor, with West Horsley	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Horsley; and the p. curacies of Allestree, Belper, BridgeHill, Little Eaton, Hazlewood, Heage, Holbrooke, Milford, Quarndon, Smalley, and Turnditch. The deanery of Eyam contains the rectory of Eyam, the vicarages of Hathersage and Tideswell, and the p. curacies of Bamford, Baslow, Beeley, Derwent, Edensover, Middleton Stoney, and Peak-Forest. The deanery of Hartshorn contains the rectories of Hartshorn, Ravenstone, and Stretton-en-le-Field; the vicarage of Repton; and the p. curacies of Donisthorpe, Church-Gresley, Measham, Rosliston, Smisby, and Willesley. The deanery of Lullington contains the rectory of Walton-on-Trent; the vicarages of Croxall, Lullington, Stapenhill, and Willington	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE	Northumberland	Horsley, then mayor; was chartered, in connexion with St. Mary's hospital, by Queen Elizabeth; has about £420 a year from endowment, and a share in Bishop Crewe's twelve exhibitions at Lincoln college, Oxford; had, for masters, Dawes, the author of " Miscellanea Critica, " and Hugh Moises; and numbers among itspupils, the Saxon scholar W. Elstob, Chief Justice Chambers, the poet Akenside, the antiquary Brand, Lord Eldon, Lord Stowell, Lord Collingwood, Bishop Ridley, and the antiquary Horsley. A new building forit, on ground belonging to St. Mary's hospital, adjacent to St. Mary's church, at Ryehill, was erected	Imperial
  ROCHESTER	Essex Hertfordshire Kent	ROCHESTER , a city, a parish, and a sub-district, in Kent, and a diocese in Kent, Essex, and Herts. The	Imperial
  West Horsley	Surrey	West Horsley , 6 miles NE. of Guildford, Surrey; P.O.; contains West Horsley Place , seat. See HORSLEY, WEST.	Bartholomew
  WESTMINSTER	Middlesex	west window was rebuilt in 1715, and is of three orders; and the two western towers are a debased mixture of Gothic and Grecian. The monuments are so multitudinous that a mere list of them would be too long for our pages, and so choice, from those of kings and princes downward through all ranks of illustrious persons, as to be almost an epitome of English chronicles; and they are so arranged in all parts, and stand out in such magnificence, as to render the pile, in no inconsiderable degree, a mausoleum of the magnates of England. The abbey	Imperial

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