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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Ancrum	Roxburghshire	Ancrum, a village and a parish of Roxburghshire. The village stands upon rising ground, on the right bank of the	Groome
  Bowden	Roxburghshire	great deer park ' of 500 acres, still forms a tolerable fence. The son of an Antiburgher ' portioner,, Thomas Aird of Bowden	Groome
  Bowden, Great	Leicestershire	Bowden, Great , par. and township, S. Leicestershire, on river Welland, 1 mile NE. of Market Harborough -- par., 3120 ac., pop. 4403; township	Bartholomew
  BOWDEN (Great), or Bowden-Magna	Leicestershire	BOWDEN (Great) , or Bowden-Magna, a village and a parish in Market-Harborough district, Leicester. The village stands on the Union	Imperial
  CREDITON	Devon	greatly devastated, in 1743 and 1769, by fire; and presents now a modern appearance. It was, for many years, the seat of a diocese, transferred, in 1049, to Exeter; was seized and somewhat fortified by the rebels in 1549; and was occasionally occupied by the contending forces in the wars of Charles I. It is divided into two parts, east and west; and consists of a main street, about a mile long, and a few minor ones. The old market house was destroyed in the fire of 1769; and the present one was erected in 1837. The public rooms	Imperial
  Eildon Hills, The	Roxburghshire	Bowden, Roxburghshire, the town of Melrose lying in the Tweed valley on the N, and the village of Bowden, which overlooks Teviotdale being on the S. They rise from one base of N and S extension into three coneshaped summits, their length being 1½ mile, and their breadth ½ mile. The middle summit is the highest (1385 feet), that to the NE attaining 1327, and that to the S 1216, feet. These summits stand apart, the northern 5 furlongs, and the southern 4, from the middle one. The appearance they present from all sides is very striking, especially from	Groome
  Galashiels	Selkirkshire	Great improvements were made in the matter of cleaning and lighting the town after 1864; but both the water supply and the drainage continued for several years in an unsatisfactory condition. The only funds at the disposal of the magistrates and council are such as arise under the Police Act. The annual value of real property in the parliamentary burgh, exclusive of railways, was £29,838 in 1872; £56,904, 5s. 5d. in 1882; £56,699,12s. 11d. in 1883, this being the first decrease on record. The municipal constituency, in 1883, was 2758; and the parliamentary	Groome
  GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL	Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire	Great Badminton, Bitton, Hawkesbury, Marshfield, Puckle-church, Old Sodbury, Tytherington, and Wapley-with-Codrington; and the p. curacies of Coal-Pit-Heath, Hanham-Abbots-with-Christchurch, Tresham, Hillesley, Kingswood, Oldland, Abson, Westerleigh, Wick, Range-worthy, Chipping-Sodbury, Acton-Turville, West Littleton, and Warmley. The deanery of Cricklade comprises the rectories of Bishopstone, Blunsdon-St. Andrew, Castle-Eaton, Cricklade-St. Mary, Little Hinton, Liddington, Lydiard-Milicent, Lydiard-Tregoz, Sharncote, and Stanton-Fitzwarren; the vicarages of Ashton-Keynes, Cricklade-St. Sampson, Hannington, Highworth, Inglesham, Latton-with-Eisey, Purton, Rodborne-Cheney, Somerford-Keynes, Stratton-St. Margaret, Swindon, Wanborough, and Wroughton	Imperial
  Great Bowden	Leicestershire	Great Bowden , 1 mile NE. of Market Harborough, S. Leicestershire; P.O. See BOWDEN, GREAT.	Bartholomew
  HARBOROUGH (MARKET)	Leicestershire	Bowden, Welham, Lubenham, Foxton, Kibworth-Beauchamp, Church-Langton, Cranoe, Glooston, StontonWyville, Shangton, Husbands-Bosworth, Fleckney, Saddington, Gumley, Langhton, and parts of Knaptoft and Theddingworth, electorally in Leicestershire; and the parishes of Sibbertoft, Sulby, Marston-Trussell, Little Bowden, East Farndon, Great	Imperial
  Linlithgowshire or West Lothian	West Lothian	great Arthurian battles was fought at Bowden Hill in 516. Edwin of Northumbria in 617 extended his dominion over all the Lothians	Groome
  LONDONDERRY	Londonderry	LONDONDERRY , a city and port, in the parish of TEMPLEMORE, and county of LONDONDERRY (of which it is the chief	Lewis:Ireland
  Market Harborough	Leicestershire	Great Bowden par., Leicestershire, on river Welland and Union Canal, 16 miles SE. of Leicester and 81 NW. of London	Bartholomew
  Melrose	Roxburghshire	Bowden, Lilliesleaf, and Langnewtoun were under the charge of one minister, with a reader at Melrose. In the year just mentioned it is noticed as a separate charge, and that state of matters continued. The earliest minister was John Knox, whose tombstone still remains in the abbey churchyard, and who was a nephew and namesake of the great	Groome
  Roxburghshire	Roxburghshire	great extent mountainous. The vales and hanging plains within the basin of the Teviot follow the course of that stream or its tributaries, and whether they have narrow bottoms or sloping braes, are either under tillage or covered with sheep, or profusely adorned with wood. The heights are all beautiful and rounded in aspect, though those which overhang the upper Teviot and Liddesdale valleys are more boldly mountainous, and in some instances moorish, barren, and bleak. Mountains. —The chief mountains of Roxburghshire are those of the Cheviot range, which extends along the S border from Yetholm parish to Craik	Groome
  Selkirk	Selkirkshire	Selkirk, a post and market town, a royal and parliamentary burgh, and the county town of Selkirkshire, is situated on	Groome
  Torphichen	West Lothian	Bowden Hill, 912 at CockLerue, and 1016 at Cairn-naple or Cairnpapple; south-westward to 648 feet near Wester Righead, 705 near Canties, 824 at Eastcraigs Hill, and 759 near Bedlormie. Torphichen thus sends up the highest points in West Lothian, and, compared with the general aspect of that Fine champaign county, is markedly tumulated, and boldly hilly at the NE end. The south-western district is naturally moorish; but, making abatements for cold wet moor towards the W, and some little extent of hillpasture on the E, the parish is generally fertile, and has an enclosed, warm, wealthy appearance	Groome
  Tweed	Berwickshire Peebles Shire	Bowden Burn, and the Teviot (with Ale Water, Jed Water, Oxnam Water, and Kale Water). After the river finally quits Roxburghshire, from the Berwickshire side come- the Leet Water and the combined stream of the Blackadder and the Whiteadder; and on the English side the principal stream is the Till. All along the course there are a very large number of smaller streams. From the influx of Biggar Water there is a continuous series of railway lines to the mouth of the river at Tweedmouth, sometimes on the one side of the stream and sometimes on the other, but mostly	Groome
  Watling Street	Roxburghshire	Bowden Burn above Newton, where its remains are very distinct; and thence moves forward to the eastern base of the Eildon Hills, and to the Tweed above Melrose and near Gattonside, amidst an unusually large number of Roman and British camps and fortifications. After passing the Tweed, the road bends from its hitherto north westerly to a northerly direction; proceeds up Melrose parish and the detached and projecting section of Lauder, on a line nearly parallel with the Leader, but inward from its vale; passes Roman stations at Chesterlee above Clackmae, and at Walls near New Blainslee; becomes very distinct	Groome

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