Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 / Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set.

by Thomas Dugdale

Map	Names of Places		County	Number of Miles From						Dist. Lond.	Popul ation.
37	Abinger	pa	Surrey	Dorking	4	Guildford	10	Ockley	5	27	767
15	Abinghall	pa	Gloucester	Newnham	6	Mitchel Dean	1	Monmouth	12	118	235
28	Abington	pa	Northam	Northam	2	Wellingboro	9	Moulton	3	67	155
6	Abington,Gt.& Lit.	pa	Cambridge	Linton	3	Cambridge	9	Newmarket	12	50	594
6	Abington in the Clay	pa	Cambridge	Royston	5	Potton	7	Cambridge	15	42	259
23	Ab Kettleby	pa	Leicester	Melton Mow	3	Leicester	16	Loughboro	13	108	331
15	Ablington	ti	Gloucester	Fairford	5	Cirencester	7	Northleach	7	85	103
10	Abney	ham	Derby	Tideswell	5	Sheffield	14	Chapel-Frith	8	164	112
49	Above Sawdde	ham	Caermar	Llangadock	1	Llandovery	7	Llandilo Var	8	195	803
22	Above Town	div	Lancashire	Garstang	11	Burton	11	KirkbyLons	15	240	591
22	Abram	to	Lancashire	Wigan	4	Bolton	9	Chorley	11	197	511
15	Abson with Wick	chap	Gloucester	Bristol	8	Sodbury	5	Marshfield	4	107	824
21	Abthorp	chap	Northam	Towcester	3	Brackley	9	Banbury	15	63	477
54	Aburthin	pa	Glamorg	Llantrissant	8	Bridgend	7	Cowbridge	1	173	...
24	Aby	pa	Lincoln	Alford	2	Louth	9	Horncastle	12	142	204
46	Acaster Malbis	pa	W.R. York	York	4	Selby	8	Tadcaster	8	190	707
46	Acaster Selby	to	W.R. York	...	5	...	7	...	8	190	201
22	Accrington, New	to	Lancaster	Blackburn	4	Haslingden	5	Burnley	8	208	4960
22	Accrington, Old	chap	Lancaster	...	6	...	4	...	6	208	1323
30	Achurch	pa	Northam	Thrapston	4	Oundle	4	Kettering	12	73	239
43	Acklam	pa	N.R. York	New Malton	6	Gt. Driffield	15	York	14	210	827
44	Acklam	chap	N.R. York	Yarm	5	Stockton	3	Guisboro	9	244	371
28	Acklington	to	Northum	Alnwick	8	Morpeth	13	Rothbury	13	300	285
45	Ackton	to	W.R. York	Pontefract	3	Wakefield	5	Leeds	9	174	51
45	Ackworth[A]	pa	W.R. York	...	3	...	7	...	11	174	1660

[A] ACKWORTH is a parish and township, in the upper division of Osgold Cross Wapentake, nominally divided into higher and lower Quakers' school. Ackworth. It is celebrated for its Quakers' School, which was purchased in 1777, with eighty-five acres of land, from the trustees of the Foundling Hospital, and rendered a seminary for the children of the more humble class of Friends. The number of pupils, is one hundred and eighty boys, and one hundred and twenty girls.

Map	Names of Places		County	Number of Miles From						Dist. Lond.	Popul ation.
27	Acle[A]	m. t. & pa	Norfolk	Norwich	11	Yarmouth	9	Loddon	8	121	820
45	Acomb	pa	W.R. York	York	2	Wetherby	10	New Malton	20	201	882
29	Acomb East	to	Northumb	Corbridge	15	Aldston Moor	9	Hexham	11	275	36
29	Acomb West	to	Northumb	...	5	...	18	...	3	275	523
17	Aconbury[B]	chap	Hereford	Hereford	4	Ross	9	Ledbury	14	130	163
21	Acrise	pa	Kent	Folkstone	4	Dover	8	Canterbury	11	67	194
7	Acton	to & pa	Chester	Nantwich	2	Tarporley	9	Middlewich	11	166	3928
7	Acton	to	Chester	Northwich	4	Frodsham	7	Chester	15	177	309
52	Acton	to	Denbigh	Wrexham	1	Holt	5	...	9	190	215
25	Acton	pa	Middlesex	Harrow	8	Brentford	3	Uxbridge	10	5	2453
29	Acton	to	Northumb	Alnwick	8	Rothbury	8	Morpeth	10	300	91
36	Acton	pa	Suffolk	Lavenham	3	Sudbury	3	Bildeston	8	57	565
42	Acton Beauchamp	pa	Worcester	Bromyard	4	Worcester	11	Ledbury	10	122	239
33	Acton Burnell[C]	to & pa	Salop	Wenlock	7	Shrewsbury	7	Ch. Stretton	7	155	381

[A] ACLE. Market, Thursday.—Fair, Wednesday before Michaelmas day.

[B] ACONBURY. At this place a nunnery of the order of St. Augustine was founded by Margery, wife of Walter de Lacey, in the reign Nunnery. of King John. The Cliffords were large benefactors to this house, which, at the dissolution, possessed £75. 7s. 6d. per annum. There are some remains yet standing, occupied as a farm house. On the summit of Aconbury Hill, a bold and extensive eminence, well wooded, and commanding a charming view over the adjacent county, are traces of a large encampment.

[C] ACTON BURNELL is celebrated for the remains of an ancient castle, founded by Robert Burnell, bishop of Bath and Wells, a man of eminent abilities, first treasurer, and afterwards chancellor of England, who was much employed by King Edward I. in Welsh affairs. He died at Berwick, in 1292, and was buried in the cathedral at Wells. The castle is a quadrangular building, with a square tower at each corner. The hall in which King Edward I. held his parliament, in 1283, was Edward I. held his parliament here in 1283. 183 feet long, by 41 broad, but the gable ends only remain. The Statutum de Mercatoribus enacted here, is from that circumstance better known as the Statute of Acton Burnell. The successor of the bishop, at the castle, was Sir Edward Burnell, son of Philip Burnell and Maud, daughter of Richard Arundel. He served in many actions in Scotland, under Edward I., and always appeared in great splendour, attended by a chariot decked with banners of his arms. He was summoned to parliament from the fifth to the eighth year of Edward the second's reign, and died in 1315. In 1346, the castle came into the possession of Nicholas Lord Burnell, who died in 1382, and is buried in the church under an altar tomb, inlaid with his effigy in brass. In the reign of Henry VI. the Lovell Lord Burnell's effigy in brass on the altar tomb. family were in possession of this estate, which was forfeited by Lord Lovell, in consequence of his adherence to King Richard III. Henry VII. being seated on the throne, granted Acton Burnell, together with other estates in this county, to Jasper Tudor, Earl of Bedford; after whose death it reverted to the crown, and Henry VIII. granted it to Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, distinguished for his valour at the battle of Flodden. Sir Humphrey Lee, of Langley, in this parish, was created a baronet, May 3, 1620. Acton Burnell Park is now the residence of Sir Edward Joseph Smythe, Bart. whose family have been seated here from the time of Charles II., when Sir Edward Smythe, of Esh, in Durham, The seat of Sir E.J. Smythe. created a baronet, Feb. 23, 1660, married the daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Lee, Bart. of Langley. The mansion, on a verdant lawn, bordered by a shrubbery, presents a handsome elevation of fine white stone, having a noble Ionic portico, under which is the carriage entrance. Behind the house is the deer park, on a finely wooded eminence, affording one of the most beautiful prospects in the county. The chapelry of Ruckley and Langley is in this parish.

Map	Names of Places		County	Number of Miles From						Dist. Lond.	Popul ation.
7	Acton Grange	to	Chester	Warrington	4	Northwich	10	Runcorn	5	183	148
15	Acton Iron	pa	Gloucester	Chip. Sodbu	2	Thornbury	7	Bristol	9	112	1372
33	Acton Pigott	chap	Salop	Much Wenlo	6	Shrewsbury	8	Ch. Stretton	9	154	...
33	Acton Reynold	to	Salop	Shrewsbury	8	Wem	6	Drayton	12	152	173
33	Acton Round	chap	Salop	Wenlock	3	Bridgenorth	6	Ludlow	17	145	203
33	Acton Scott	pa	Salop	Ch. Stretton	4	Bish. Castle	10	Ludlow	10	155	204
35	Acton Trussell	to & pa	Stafford	Penkridge	3	Stafford	4	Lichfield	15	131	551
15	Acton Turville	chap	Gloucester	Tetbury	11	Chippenham	12	Sodbury	5	102	236
35	Adbaston	pa	Stafford	Eccleshall	14	Newport	5	Hodnet	7	152	601
31	Adderbury East	to & pa	Oxford	Banbury	3	Deddington	3	Aynhoe	4	70	2471
33	Adderley	pa	Salop	Drayton	4	Whitchurch	8	Wem	12	157	468
29	Adderston	to	Northumb	Beiford	3	Alnwick	12	Wooler	10	319	322
17	Adforton	to	Hereford	Ludlow	8	Presteign	8	Knighton	8	150	218
9	Addingham	pa	Cumberland	Kirk Oswald	2	Penrith	8	Aldstn Moor	12	291	719
45	Addingham	pa	W.R. York	Skipton	5	Ottley	8	Keighley	5	213	2251
37	Addington[A]	pa	Surrey	Croydon	4	Westerham	10	Bromley	5	12	463
5	Addington	pa	Bucks	Winslow	2	Buckingham	5	Bicester	11	50	74
21	Addington	pa	Kent	Maidstone	7	Rochester	8	Wrotham	3	27	206
28	Addington, Gt	to & pa	Northamp	Thrapston	4	Kettering	7	Higam Ferrers	5	70	282
28	Addington, Lit	to & pa	Northamp	...	5	...	8	...	5	70	264
21	Addisham	pa	Kent	Wingham	3	Canterbury	6	Sandwich	6	62	390
45	Addle[B]	to & pa	W.R. York	Leeds	5	Ottley	6	Bradford	8	205	1063
46	Addle-cum-Eccup	to	W.R. York	...	5	...	6	...	8	291	703
45	Addlingfleet[C]	pa	W.R. York	Snaith	11	Burton	2	Howden	6	170	478

[A] ADDINGTON is on the borders of Kent. Addington Place, a seat erected by Alderman Trecothick, in 1772, was purchased in 1807, for the residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The manor of Addington is held by the feudal service of finding a man to make a mess, called Gerout, in the king's kitchen, at the coronation, and serving it up in Coronation custom. his own person at Westminster Hall. In the reign of William the Conqueror, Addington appears to have been held by Tezelin, cook to the king, which accounts for the origin of the required culinary service. The Archbishop of Canterbury is now the claimant of the service alluded to. Near the village is a curious cluster of tumuli, or mounds Cluster of tumuli. of earth raised over the bodies of the slain, about twenty-five in number, of inconsiderable height. One of them is nearly forty feet in diameter, two are about half that size, and the rest very small.

[B] ADDLE. The church in this town is considered to be one of the most perfect specimens of Roman architecture remaining in England. In 1702, the traces of an ancient Roman town, with fragments of urns, Roman architecture. and of an aqueduct of stone were found in the adjacent moor.

[C] ADDLINGFLEET. A parish and township in the lower division of Osgold Cross, including the townships of Fockerby, Haldenby, and Eastoft. The village is situated very near the junction of the Trent with the Humber, the latter river being one of the largest in the kingdom, formed by the united waters of the Trent, Ouse, Derwent, Aire, and other minor streams. At this part it is about a mile broad, it is the Abus of Ptolemy. It runs towards the east, washing the port of Hull, where it receives the river called by the same name; from thence, taking a south-easterly direction, it expands itself into Boundary between Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. an estuary nearly seven miles across, and mingles with the German ocean. This river, which, with very few exceptions, receives all the waters of Yorkshire from the Ouse, and the greater part of those from the midland counties from the Trent, commands the inland navigation of very extensive and commercial parts of England; namely, those of the Mersey, Dee, Ribble, Severn, Thames, and Avon; it also forms the boundary between Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.