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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  GREAT BENTLEY	Manor	BENTLEY Ch/CP (Parish-level Unit)

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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ARKSEY, or Bentley-with-Arksey	Yorkshire	Bentley-with-Arksey, a parish in Doncaster district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Great Northern railway and the river Don, 2 miles	Imperial
  ASHBORNE, or Ashbourne	Derbyshire	great part of his "Lalla Rookh." The Henmore and the Dove, in their connexion with the parish, afford prime angling for trout and grayling, and were noted for it by Warton and Cotton. Thorp-Cloud Hill, 3 miles from the town, and 300 feet high, commands a fine view of the craggy flanks of the Dove. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Mappleton, in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £420.* Patron, the Bishop of Lichfield. The chapelries of Clifton, Hulland, and Alsop-le-Dale are separate charges. Sir Aston Cockaine, the Elizabethan poet	Imperial
  Bentley, Great	Essex	Bentley, Great , par. and vil., NE. Essex, 8 miles SE. of Colchester, 3235 ac., pop. 911; P.O.	Bartholomew
  BENTLEY (Great)	Essex	BENTLEY (Great) , a village and a parish in Tendring district, Essex. The village stands near the Tendring Hundred railway, 8 miles	Imperial
  CALARY	Wicklow	CALARY , a district parish, in the several baronies of BALLINACOR, HALF-RATHDOWN, and NEWCASTLE, county of WICKLOW, and province of	Lewis:Ireland
  CALNE	Wiltshire	Great Western, and of a branch canal from the Wilts and Berks, 5¼ miles E by S of Chippenham. Its environs are a fine mixture of dale and hill; and adjoin, on the SW, the Marquis of Lansdowne's seat of Bowood. It rose originally from the ruins of a Roman station; dates from the Saxon times; and was the scene of the synod, in 977, at which St. Dunstan presided, for settling the disputes respecting the celibacy of the clergy; when all present, except the president, went down by the falling in of the floor	Imperial
  CAMBRIDGE	Cambridgeshire	great court, Nevile's court, and King's court. The great court is entered by a fine old gateway; measures 1,202 feet in circuit; and has an octagonal conduit in the centre. Nevile's court was built in 1609, by D. Nevile; and measures 228 feet by 148. King's court was built in 1823-6, after designs by Wilkins, at a cost of £40,000; displays much elegance; and was named in honour of George IV., who headed the subscription for it with a donation of £1,000. The hall, in the great court	Imperial
  DONCASTER	Yorkshire	Great Northern railway, a telegraph office, two banking offices, and six chief inns; is a seat of sessions, a polling place, and a head-quarters of militia; and publishes three weekly newspapers. Markets are held on Saturdays; and fairs on 2 Feb., 5 April, 5 Aug., and 16 Nov. Extensive works of the G. N. railway are here. A large trade in corn and some manufacture of linen and sacking are carried on. Races, established in 1703, and run annually in the third week of September, have great celebrity, and draw a vast concourse. The race-course adjoins the town	Imperial
  Great Bentley	Essex	Great Bentley , ry. sta., 8 miles SE. of Colchester, Essex; P.O. See BENTLEY, GREAT.	Bartholomew
  GREENWICH	Kent	great as about 32, 000. The hospital has apartments for governor, lieutenantgovernor, four captains, eight lieutenants, and other officers; two infirmaries for respectively 250 patients and 120 helpless pensioners; extensive victualling and brewing establishments, and a surgery, a dispensary, a medical library, and other appurtenances. The great hall and the chapel are open to the public, free on Mondays and Fridays, and for 3d. on other days. The Royal Naval School.-This instituting was incorporated with the royal hospital in 1825. The building stands between the hospital and the park; includes, at its centre, the edifice which was called	Imperial
  HADLEIGH	Suffolk	Great Eastern railway, 9½ miles W by S of Ipswich; was known to the Saxons as Headlege; possessed for some time the rank of a corporate town, but surrendered its charter in the reign of James II.; and is now a seat of petty sessions, a polling place, and a centre of considerable country trade. The branch railway to it deflects from the Eastern Union line at Bentley	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Great Wyrley. The deanery of Stafford contains the rectories of Haughton, Ingestre, Stafford-St. Mary, Standon, and Tixall; the vicarages of Milwich, Ranton, Seighford, and Weston-upon-Trent; and the p. curacies of Birchfield, Castle-Church, Derrington, Forebridge, Fradswell, Gayton, Marston, Salt, Stafford-St. Chad, StaffordChristchurch, Stow, and Whitgreave. The deanery of Stoke-upon-Trent contains the rectories of Bucknall, Burslem, Longton, Shelton, and Stoke-upon-Trent; and the p. curacies of Bagnall, Cobridge, Edensor, Etruria, Fenton, Hanley, Hartshill, Hope, Lane-End, Northwood, Penkhull, Sneyd, Trent-Vale, Tunstall, and Wellington. The deanery of Tamworth contains the rectories of Clifton-Campville	Imperial
  LIVERPOOL	Lancashire	great groups side-by-side, erected in 1865-6, at the corner of Tithebarn street-vie with one another, and compare victoriously with the best buildings of the same class anywhere in the world, in at once variety, ornature, and splendour. A marked feature in very many streets is the very variety of manner in which the corner houses are treated; most of which are splayed at the angle, or carved, or partly both, with the projecting part supported on brackets, while few do not display cunning devices to make the most of their position. A variety of quite another	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Bentley's printing office; and was the birth-place of Cowley, the death-place of W. Lilly and Lovelace, and the residence of Michael Drayton, Praise-God-Barebones, Wynkin de Warde, E. Curll, B. Lintot, and the publisher Murray. Bolt-court, to the W of Shoe-lane, was the residence and death-place of Dr. Johnson, and the residence. of the printer Bensley, the astronomer Ferguson, and William-Cobbett; and Johnson's house in it was taken down in 178 4. Crane-court, still further to the W, was the meeting-place of the Royal Society from 1701 till	Imperial
  OXFORD	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Wiltshire	great ornamented windows; and contains a remarkable picture of Admiral Blake, and several very fine portraits. The chapel measures 70 feet by 30, exclusive of a still larger ante-chapel; and has a fine Ewindow by Van Linge. The library also has a very finewindow; and is rich in valuable and rare books. The Royal Society originated in meetings held in a room overthe gateway. The gardens are tastefully arranged, and contain some fine cedar-trees. Among the members of Wadham college have been Bishops Wilkins and Sprat, Hody, Kennicott, SirWren, Admiral Blake, Harrisauthor of " Hermes, " Creech, Bentley	Imperial
  POTTERS-BAR	Middlesex	Great Northern railway, and near the boundary with Herts, 1 mile S E of a r. station of its ownname, and 3 N N E of Barnet; and has a post-office‡under Barnet. The chapelry contains also the hamlets of Gannick-Corner and Bentley	Imperial
  SAMFORD	Suffolk	Great Wenham, Little Wenham, Copdock, Washbrook, Chattisham, Hintlesham, Burstall, and Sproughton; and the sub-district of Holbrook, containing the parishes of Holbrook, Stutton, Brantham, Harkstead, Erwarton, Shotley, Chelmondiston, Woolverstone, Freston, Tattingstone, Bentley	Imperial
  STANMORE (Great)	Middlesex	Great) , a village and a parish in Hendon district, Middlesex. The village stands on a hillslope, near Watling-street, 2 miles NW of Edgware r. station; is about a mile long; and has a post-office‡ under London NW, and a hotel. The parish contains also S. Marsh hamlet, and comprises 1,441 acres. Real property, £7,709. Pop. in 1851, 1,180; in 1861, 1,318. Houses, 259. The manor was held, at Domesday, by Earl Mortaigne; and passed to St. Albans abbey, Smithfield priory, the Spaniard Gambo, the Lakes, the Brydgeses, the Drummonds, the Abercorns	Imperial
  WAKEFIELD	Yorkshire	greatly enlarged in 1862; and is ornamental and commodious. The new market house, market place, and slaughter-houses were erected at a cost of more than £20,000. The mechanics' institution contains a saloon or lecture-room, and a good library and newsroom; and stands over cold and warm baths. The Church institution is a handsome Gothic edifice of 1861. The theatre is a plain brick building. The county house of correction occupies a plot of nearly 20 acres; was twice enlarged since 1820, at a cost of £120,000; is divided into two departments	Imperial
  WOLVERHAMPTON	Staffordshire	great annual fair on 10 July and some following days. Trade is carried on in corn mills, maltings, breweries, grease-works, Japan and varnish-works, dye-works, colour-works, roperies, cooperages, saw-mills, coach-works, sacking-lofts, crate-works, clay retort-works, chemical-works, iron and brass foundries, smelting furnaces, very extensive iron-works, and large and numerous establishments for all kinds of ironmongery and hardware. Vast traffic exists also in connexion with coal mining, ironstone-mining, iron-manufacture, and ragstone-quarrying throughout a great extent of country to the S and to the E. About 1,000,000 tons	Imperial

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