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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  VIRGINIA WATER LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	EGHAM UD (Local Government District)

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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BALLINTEMPLE	Cavan	Virginia to Killyshandra, and comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, including 54 ¼under water, 10,657 ¾ statute acres	Lewis:Ireland
  Bishopsgate	Surrey	HAMLET, on NW. border of Surrey, adjacent to Windsor Park, and near Virginia Water. Here Shelley, the poet, wrote his "Alastor..	Bartholomew
  BISHOPSGATE	Surrey	Windsor, near Virginia water. It lies amid charming scenery; and was the place where the poet Shelley wrote his "Alaster."	Imperial
  CAVAN	Cavan	Virginia; all of which are maintained partly by Grand Jury presentments and partly by voluntary contributions in equal portions. The amount of Grand Jury presentments for 1835, was £22,525. 4. 9., of which £1860. 8. 9. was for the public roads of the county at large; £7287. 19. 8. for the public roads, being the baronial charge; £6792. 15. 9. for public buildings and charities, officers' salaries, &c.; £4033. 5. for police; and £2550. 15. 7. in repayment of a loan advanced by Government. Cavan, in military arrangements, is included	Lewis:Ireland
  EGHAM	Surrey	Virginia-Water is approached, by permission, through the grounds of an inn by the road-side. See Virginia-Water. Camo	Imperial
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Virginia before the London ships got clear of the Channel,, and thus saved a mouth or six weeks on the whole voyage. From the time of the final victory of the Glasgow houses over their English rivals, the trade was conducted on more liberal principles, partners or resident agents being established throughout the tobacco-producing colonies; the trade increased prodigiously, and princely fortunes were realised. Soon after this time the number of ships, brigantines, and sloops belonging to Glasgow amounted to sixty-seven; and besides an important coasting trade, voyages were made to Virginia, Jamaica, Antigua, St Kitts, Barbadoes, Gibraltar	Groome
  GRANARD	Longford	Virginia; containing 10,315 inhabitants. This place, of which the name is a compound of the Irish words Grian, the "sun," and Ard, an "eminence," is supposed to have been at a remote period one of the stations appropriated to the celebration of idolatrous worship. In 1315 it was burned by the Scots under Edward Brace, and appears to have first risen to importance as a town in the reign of Jas. I., who, in 1612, granted to Sir Francis Shaen some annual fairs, to which were added a grant of a market to Sir Francis Aungier, and also	Lewis:Ireland
  Greenock	Renfrewshire	water lake (as the outlet to the sea is not visible), with numbers of large and small vessels sailing upon it. Next to this, the opposite coast of Dumbarton and Argyllshire, abounding in gentlemen's seats, meets the eye, and the prospect is terminated by the western range of the Grampian Mountains at unequal distances, and so ragged and craggy on the tops, that, by way of contrast, they are called here by the emphatical name of the Duke of Argyll's Bowling Green. Along the skirts of the hills there are many eligible situations for those who have	Groome
  Greenock	Renfrewshire	water; and the depth of the channel on each side of this bank is such as to admit vessels of the largest class. Between Port Glasgow and Garvel Point, a remarkable promontory at the E end of the burgh, the high part of the bank is separated from the upper portion (part of which opposite to Port Glasgow is also dry at low water) by a narrow channel significantly called the `Through-let,' through which the tide, passing from the lower part of the Firth in a north-easterly direction, and obstructed in its. progress by Ardmore, a promontory	Groome
  HENSTRIDGE	Somerset	Virginia inn, at Henstridge-Ash, is said to have been the place where Sir Walter Raleigh first smoked a pipe of tobacco in England; and a tradition is current that the waiter supposing him to be on fire, dashed over him a pail of water	Imperial
  KILLENCARE, or KILLENKERE	Cavan	Virginia; containing 7600 inhabitants. This parish, which is also called Killinskere, comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 15,962 ¼ statute acres, of which 131 ¼ are water	Lewis:Ireland
  KINSALE, or KINGSALE	Cork	Virginia and Barbadoes fleets, till an opportunity was found of convoying them in safety to their respective ports. On various subsequent occasions,especially during the last war, this port has been a rendezvous for large squadrons of the British navy and for homeward and outward bound East and West India fleets. The town is pleasantly and advantageously situated near the mouth of the river Bandon, anciently called the Glaslin or Glasson, which here forms a capacious and secure harbour. The streets rise in a singular and irregular manner on the acclivity of an eminence called Compass Hill, the houses ranging	Lewis:Ireland
  LAVAY, or LOWEY	Cavan	Virginia; containing 6305 inhabitants. According to the Ordnance survey it comprises 10,679 statute acres, of which 76 ½ are water	Lewis:Ireland
  LURGAN	Cavan	Virginia (which is separately described), 6387 inhabitants. It comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 11,327 ¾ statute acres, including 922 ¾ acres of water	Lewis:Ireland
  PLYMOUTH	Devon	water-works forit, which still exist, and draw their supplies from a distance of 24 miles in Dartmoor. The fleet of 120 men ofwar, collected against the Spanish armada in 1588, tookanchorage in P. sound, and sailed out thence, on sight of the armada, to chase and disperse it. Twenty-two chests of Papal bulls and indulgences, which had beentaken from a discomfited party of Spanish invadersin Cornwall, were publicly burnt in 1595 in P. market-place. The fleet for the expedition against Cadiz rendezvoused in the sound in 1596. Sir Walter Raleighsailed hence, on his expedition to Guiana	Imperial
  Sanquhar	Dumfries Shire	Virginia. The weaving of carpets has also greatly declined; and brick and tile making, coal-mining, and the manufacture of shovels now constitute the leading industries. Sanquhar has a post office, with money order, savings' bank, and telegraph departments, branches of the British Linen Co. and Royal Banks, a local savings' bank (1819), 10 insurance agencies, 2 hotels, gas and water	Groome
  Virginia Water	Surrey	Virginia Water , eccl. dist. and ry. sta., Egham par., Surrey, 2½ miles NW. of Chertsey and 23 SW. of London	Bartholomew
  VIRGINIA-WATER	Surrey	Virginia-Water lake here lies in the S of Windsor forest; is the largest artificial sheet of water in England	Imperial
  Windsor (New)	Berkshire	Virginia Water, the largest artificial lake in England. Windsor was incorporated by Edward I. It returns 1 member to Parl	Bartholomew

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