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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CHESTER	Cheshire	CHESTER , a city and two sub-districts in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; and a diocese in Cheshire and part of	Imperial
  DAVENHAM	Cheshire	Hartford r. station, and 2 S of Northwich; and has a post office under Northwich, and fairs on 15 April and 15 Oct. Acres, 479. Real property, £2, 005. Pop., 518. Houses, 109. The parish contains also the townships of Rudheath, Shipbrook, Newhall, Whatcroft, Bostock, Stanthorne, Wharton, Moulton, Eaton, Leftwich, and Shurlach. Acres, 9, 449. Real property, £43, 209. Pop., 6, 855. Houses, 1, 397. The property is much sub-divided. Brine pits are here. An action was fought, in 1643, at Rudheath, between the royalists and the parliamentarians. The living is a rectory in the diocese	Imperial
  ELVETHAM	Hampshire	Hartford-Bridge hamlet, Hartley-Wintney village, and Winchfield r. station, 4½ miles NE by N of Odiham. Post town	Imperial
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Bridge, Guyhirn-in-Wisbeach, Parson-Drove, Wisbeach-St. Mary, and Wisbeach-Chapel of Ease; and the donative of Thorney-Abbey. The archdeaconry of Bedford comprises the deaneries of Bedford, Clapham, Dunstable, Fleete, Eaton, and Shefford. The deanery of Bedford contains the rectories of Bedford-St. Cuthbert, Bedford-St. John, Bedford-St. Mary, Bedford-St. Peter Martin, Houghton-Conquest, and Houghton-Gildable; the vicarages of Bedford-St. Paul, Biddenham, Cardington, Cople, Goldington, Kempston, Willington, Wilhampstead, and Wootton; and the p. curacies of Bedford-Trinity and Elstow. The deanery of Clapham contains the rectories of Bletsoe, Carlton, Chellington, Farndish, Knotting-cum-Souldrop	Imperial
  EVERSLEY	Hampshire	Hartford-Bridge, and 4 N by E of Winchfield r. station; and has a post office under Winchfield, and fairs	Imperial
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	EXETER , a city and a district in Devon, and a diocese in Devon and Cornwall. The city stands on the	Imperial
  Hartford Bridge	Hampshire	Hartford Bridge , hamlet, Hartley Wintney par., N. Hants, 4 miles N. of Odiham; P.O., T.O. See Hartley Wintney.	Bartholomew
  HARTFORD-BRIDGE	Hampshire	HARTFORD-BRIDGE , a hamlet in Hartley-Wintney parish, Hants; near the Southwestern railway, 4 miles N of Odiham. It has a post	Imperial
  Hartley Wintney	Hampshire	miles NE. of Basingstoke, 2451 ac., pop. 1799; contains the hamlet of Hartley Row ; 1 Bank; P.O., T.O., at Hartford Bridge .	Bartholomew
  HUNTINGDON	Huntingdonshire	HUNTINGDON , a town, four parishes, a sub-district, and a district in Huntingdonshire. The town stands on the river Ouse	Imperial
  NORTHWICH	Cheshire	bridge, while vessels of equal capacity, which lower their masts, can go up to Winsford. A deepening and widening of the river, with the view of enabling vessels of several hundred tons to come up to the town, was in progress in 1867. The W part of the railway line through Northwich, or the part thence to Helsby, was only in course of formationin 1867. The largest salt mine, called the Marston-Rock mine, is about 360 feet in depth; has an excavatedarea of about 30 acres; is interspersed with rock-pillars 30 feet in diameter, 16 feet high	Imperial
  OUSE, or Great Ouse (The)	Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Norfolk	Hartford, Houghton, Hemingford, and St. Ives, to a point ¾of a mile above Holywell; in Cambridgeshire, first 5¼ miles north-eastward along the boundary to Earith, next mainly through an artificial cut, called the New Bedford river, directly north-eastward to a point in Norfolk, 2 miles S W of Downham-Market, but partly in its old natural bed, now called Old West river, eastward into junction with the Cam, and next north-north-eastward, past Littleport, to a point near the influx of the Little Ouse; and in Norfolk, northward, past Downham-Market, Holme, the Wiggenhalls	Imperial
  ROTHERWICK	Hampshire	Hartford-Bridge, under Winchfield. Acres, 1, 924. Real property, £2, 126. Pop., 386. Houses, 93. The property is divided	Imperial

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