Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Newark like this:

NEWARK, a hamlet in Peterborough, St. John the Baptist parish, Northampton; within Peterboroughborough, but 1½ mile N E by E of Peterborough town. Pop., 307. Houses, 59. The land is flat, and mostlyarable. A chapel, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, formerlywas here.

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Travel writing

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