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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CHARLEVILLE	Cork	CHARLEVILLE , an incorporated market and post-town (formerly a parliamentary borough), in the parish of RATHGOGAN, barony of ORRERY and	Lewis:Ireland
  CHESTER-LE-STREET	County Durham	Lumley; and was formerly collegiate. Lumley Park, a seat of the Earl of Scarborough, and Lambton Castle, the seat of the Earl of Durham, are in the neighbourhood. -The township includes the town, and comprises 2, 666 acres. Real property, £17, 801; of which £8, 300 are in mines, and £195 in railways. Pop., 3, 013. Houses, 610. -The parish contains also the townships of Great	Imperial
  DURHAM	County Durham	DURHAM , a city and a district in the county of Durham, and a diocese in the NE of England. The	Imperial
  DURHAM, or Durhamshire	County Durham	DURHAM , or Durhamshire, a maritime county in the north-east of England; bounded, on the N, by Northumberland; on the	Imperial
  EDSTONE (Great)	Yorkshire	Great) , a township and a parish in Helmsley district, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Dove, 2½ miles SSE of Kirkby-Moorside, and 6 W by S of Pickering r. station. . Acres, 1, 190. Real property, £2, 123. Pop., 135. Houses, 27. The parish contains also the township of North Holme; and its post town is Kirkby-Moorside, under York. Acres, 1,800. Real property, £3, 032. Pop., 152. Houses, 29. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £188.* Patron, G. W. Dowker	Imperial
  Great Lumley	County Durham	Great Lumley , 2 miles SE. of Chester le Street, N. Durham; P.O. See LUMLEY, GREAT.	Bartholomew
  HARTLEPOOL	County Durham	Lumleys, next in 1770 to the Pococks. The town was plundered, in 1312, by Sir James Douglas; was plundered again, in 1315, by the Scots; was taken, in 1569, by the rebel Earls in the rising of the North; was seized, in 1644, by the Scots, and held by them till 1647; and was relieved, in the latter year, by a parliamentarian garrison. The port, in 1680, was made subordinate to Stockton; and, from 1725 till 1832, it declined down to the condition of little better than a fishing village; but, about the latter year, it underwent a sudden resuscitation	Imperial
  Lumley	County Durham	Lumley Beck, pop. 2341; comprises the townships and vils. of Great and Little Lumley, and contains Lumley Castle , seat of the Earl	Bartholomew
  LUMLEY	County Durham	LUMLEY , a chapelry in Chester-le-Street parish, Durham; on Lumley beck, an affluent of the river Wear, 2 miles NW of Fence-Houses r. station, and 2 SE of Chester-le-Street. It consists of the townships of Great	Imperial
  Lumley, Great	County Durham	Lumley, Great , township and vil., in par. and 2 miles SE. of Chester-le-Street, Durham, 1644 ac., pop. 1830; P.O.	Bartholomew
  LUMLEY (GREAT)	County Durham	LUMLEY (GREAT) , a village and a township in Chester-le-Street parish, Durham. The village stands 2 miles NW of Fence	Imperial
  LUMLEY (LITTLE)	County Durham	LUMLEY (LITTLE) , a township in Chester-le-Street parish, Durham; contiguous on the N to Great Lumley, and 1½ mile	Imperial
  SCARBOROUGH	Yorkshire	SCARBOROUGH , a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in N. R. Yorkshire. The town stands	Imperial

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