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Place name County Entry Source BARRINGTON (Great) Gloucestershire park about 3 miles in circuit; and a previous mansion was built in 1734 by Lord Chancellor Talbot, and soon afterwards destroyed by fire. Quarries of excellent freestone are worked; and supplied the material for Blenheim Imperial BLADON Oxfordshire Blenheim Park, 1¼ mile ENE of Handborough r. station, and 2 S of Woodstock; and it has a post Imperial Blenheim Oxfordshire Blenheim , par., mid. Oxfordshire, near Woodstock, 2269 ac., pop. 122. Blenheim Park is the seat of the Duke of Marlhorough Bartholomew BLENHEIM PARK Oxfordshire Blenheim; the great dining-room, thick with pictures by Rubens and Vandyke: the saloon, with walls and ceiling decorated by La Guerre: the library, 183 feet long, with marble statue of Queen Anne by Rysbrach; and the chapel, with marble monument of the great Duke and his Duchess by Rysbrach, and with a Lombard pulpit in Derbyshire spar. The collection of paintings and of objects of vertu is one of the largest and choicest in Britain; insomuch that Waaggen says, "If nothing were to be seen in England but Blenheim, with its park Imperial CHATSWORTH Derbyshire Blenheim; was held alternately by the parliamentarians and the royalists in the civil wars; and was, for some time, the abode of Hobbes of Malmsbury, as family tutor, and the place where he wrote his ' ' Wonders of the Peak;" but has entirely disappeared. The present mansion was chiefly built in 1687-1706, by the first Duke of Devonshire, after designs by Talman and Wren, but underwent an extension of its north wing, subsequent to 1820, after designs by Wyatville; and it was visited in 1768 by Christian VII., in 1816 by Archduke Nicholas, in 1832 by Princess Victoria Imperial Edinburgh Midlothian Park, the main carriage communication to Portobello, Musselburgh, and other places in the E. Jacob's Ladder strikes off from Regent Road, opposite the High School, and descends a steep declivity to North Back of Canongate, serving as a short cut to pedestrians. It comprises two mutually converging and then diverging lines of descent, the latter mostly by flights of steps; and commands from its summit, but still better from points a little way down, very striking views of the buildings and the flanks of the E extremity of the valley of the Nor' Loch. Regent Terrace, Carlton Terrace Groome EVENLODE (The) Gloucestershire
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WorcestershireKingdam, Ascott, Shorthampton, Charlbury, and Blenheim Park, to a confluence with the Isis, in the vicinity of Ensham and Cassington. Imperial Glyme Oxfordshire Glyme , river, Oxfordshire; rises near Heythorp and flows 8 miles SE. through Blenheim Park to the Evenlode. Bartholomew GLYME (The) Oxfordshire eastward to Blenheim Park; goes through that park, forming in it a small lake; and immediately afterwards falls into the Evenlode. Imperial LIVERPOOL Lancashire LIVERPOOL , a large seaport town on the S verge of Lancashire; the second for population and for commerce in England Imperial NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE Northumberland NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE , a town, four parishes, and a district, in Northumberland. The town stands on the river Tyne at Imperial OXFORDSHIRE, Oxford, or Oxon Oxfordshire Blenheim Palace, Sherburn Castle, Cuddesden Palace, Ditchley House, Broughton Castle, Bletchingdon Park, Cornbury Park, Middleton Park, Rangers Lodge, Stonor Park Imperial WATERFORD Waterford Park, of G. Meara, Esq.; Belmont, of I. Roberts, Esq.; Mount Pleasant, of S. King, Esq.; Ballinamona, of T. Carew, Esq.; Killaspy, of Alex. Sherlock, Esq.; Bellevue, of P. Power, Esq.; Bishop's Hall, of S. Blackmore, Esq.; Faithlegg House, of N. Power, Esq.; Woodstown, of Lord Carew; Woodstown, of the Earl of Huntingdon; Summerfield, of Lord Ebrington; Harbour View, of Capt. Morris; Dromona, of T. Coghlan, Esq.; Grantstown, of the Rev. Fras. Reynett; Blenheim Lewis:Ireland Woodstock Oxfordshire park of Blenheim, the seat of the Duke of Marlborough. As a royal residence Woodstock frequently appears in history. It gives Bartholomew WOODSTOCK Oxfordshire park of Blenheim, where the royal palace stood, and which we have separately noticed; had R. Cornwall as a native Imperial
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