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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  COAL ASTON LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	DRONFIELD UD (Local Government District)

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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ASTON (Coal or Cold)	Derbyshire	ASTON (Coal or Cold) . See Coal-Aston.	Imperial
  Birmingham	Warwickshire	Aston par.), 8400 ac., pop. 400,774; parl. bor., pop. 437,076. Birmingham is situated on the verge of a great coal	Bartholomew
  BIRMINGHAM	London Staffordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire	BIRMINGHAM , a great town, the fourth in point of population in England, at the NW angle of Warwickshire, adjacent to	Imperial
  CHESHIRE	Cheshire	CHESHIRE , a maritime county; bounded, on the NW, by the Irish sea; on the N, by Lancashire; on the NE	Imperial
  CHESTER	Cheshire	CHESTER , a city and two sub-districts in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; and a diocese in Cheshire and part of	Imperial
  COAL-ASTON, or Cold-Aston	Derbyshire	COAL-ASTON , or Cold-Aston, a township in Dronfield parish, Derby; ¾ of a mile NE of Dronfield. Real property	Imperial
  DROGHEDA	Louth	DROGHEDA , a seaport, borough, and market-town, and a county of itself, locally in the county of LOUTH, and province	Lewis:Ireland
  DRONFIELD	Derbyshire	Coal-Aston, Holmesfield and Little Barlow in Chesterfield district, and those of Dore and Totley in Ecclesall-Bierlow district. Acres	Imperial
  DUBLIN	Dublin	DUBLIN , the metropolis of Ireland, and a city and county of itself, in the province of LEINSTER, situated in 53	Lewis:Ireland
  FLINTSHIRE, or Flint	Flintshire	coal seams are surpassed in thickness only by those at Wednesbury in Stafford; and have been found, in some places, to possess an aggregate of 59 feet, within a depth of only 216 yards. Some of the coal contains 90 per cent. of combustible matter; and 37 collieries are worked. Ironstone and a fine kind of silicious freestone abound in the coal tracts; a rich hematitic iron ore is found in the mountain limestone; and a lead ore, containing appreciable quantities of silver, has been worked to the extent of 1, 056 tons a year, but has latterly been less	Imperial
  GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL	Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire	Aston-Blank, Great Barrington, Little Barrington, Bledington, Guyting-Inferior, Longborough, Lower Swell, and Turk-Dean; and the p. curacies of Clapton, Lower Slaughter, Addlestrop, Little Compton, Farmcote, Yanworth, and Cold Salperton. The deanery of Winchcomb comprises the rectories of Bishops-Cleeve, Cheltenham, Colesbourne, Dowdeswell, Hasfield, Leckhampton, Sudeley, Swindon, Whittington, Withington, and Woolstone; the vicarages of Badgeworth, Brockworth, Corse, Down-Hatherley, Elmstone-Hardwick, Leigh, Prestbury, Staverton, Tewkesbury, Tirley, Twyning, and Winchcomb; and the p. curacies of Ashchurch, Shurdington, Stoke-Orchard, Charlton-Abbots, Charlton-Kings, Cheltenham-St. James, Cheltenham-St. John, Cheltenham-St. Luke, Cheltenham-St. Mark, Cheltenham-St. Paul, Cheltenham	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	LICHFIELD , a city, four parishes, a sub-district, and a district in Staffordshire, and a diocese partly also in Derbyshire	Imperial
  NORTON-UNDER-CANNOCK, or Norton-Canes	Staffordshire	Aston family. Coal and ironstone abound; and the coal is extensively worked around Brownhills. The living is a rectory in the diocese	Imperial
  RUNCORN	Cheshire	coal, coke, iron, and stone. Steamtugs tow the canal-boats up or down the Mersey; a steampacket sails daily to and from Liverpool; and a packet-boat goes daily, in summer, to Manchester. Ship-building, anchor-making, iron-founding, rope-making, soap-making, tanning, and school-slate manufacturing arecarried on. The town includes all R. township and part of Halton township. Pop. in 1851, 8,049; in 1861, 10.434. Houses, 2,092. The township comprises 1,000 acres of land, and 490 ofwater. Real property, £28, 423; of which £1,015 are inquarries	Imperial
  SHIFFNAL	Shropshire	coal and iron mines. The physician Beddoes, who died in 1808, was a native. Pop. of the town in 1861, 2,046. Houses, 423. The parish includes Priors-Lee chapelry and two townships, and comprises 11,441 acres. Real property, £48,706; of which £25,972 are in ironworks, and £73 in gasworks. Pop. in 1851 ,5,617; in 1861, 5,923. Houses, 1,150. The manor belongs to Lord Stafford. Haughton Hall, Aston	Imperial
  SHROPSHIRE, or Salop	Shropshire	SHROPSHIRE , or Salop, an inland county, of the W of England; bounded, on the NW, by Denbighshire; on the N	Imperial
  Warwickshire	Warwickshire	coal, ironstone, limestone, freestone, blue flagstone, and fire-clay. The mfrs. are carried on chiefly at Birmingham (hardware and silk goods) and Coventry (watches and ribbons). There are mineral springs at Leamington, Stratford on Avon, Umington, Southam, Willoughby, King's Newnham, &c. The co. is traversed in all directions by canals and railways. Warwickshire comprises 4 hundreds, 256 pars, with parts of 7 others, the parl. and mun. bors. of Birmingham (7 members) and Coventry (1 member), the parl. bors. of Aston	Bartholomew
  WARWICKSHIRE, or Warwick	Warwickshire	coal-field, with seams of coal 3 and 4 feet thick, extends along the NE border, to the SE of Tamworth; is 16 miles long, and has a mean breadth of about 3 miles. A broad tract of permian rocks, chiefly conglomerate sandstone and red marl, extends southward from the coal-field, past Coventry, to within a short distance of Leamington. Trias rocks, chiefly new red sandstone and keuper marl, occupy nearly all the rest of the area. Coal is worked in 17 mines; and, in 1859, yielded an output of 355,750 tons. Marl, blue clay, and limestone	Imperial

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