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.
17	Barton	to	Hereford	Kington	1	Presteign	5	Hereford	21	156	...
30	Barton	pa	Nottingham	Nottingham	6	Rempstone	7	Derby	13	121	379
40	Barton, (High),[A]	pa & to	Westmorlnd	Appleby	3	Orton	6	Brough	11	272	1537
23	Barton	ham	Leicester	M. Bosworth	2	Leicester	14	Ashby	10	108	163
27	Barton Bendish	pa	Norfolk	Stoke Ferry	4	Swaffham	8	Downham	8	92	459
10	Barton-le-Blount	pa	Derby	Derby	10	Ashborne	9	Uttoxeter	8	136	60
3	Barton in the Clay	pa	Bedford	Silsoe	3	Luton	7	Ampthill	4	38	720
44	Barton, St. Cuthbert	pa & to	N.R. York	Darlington	5	Richmond	7	Barnard Cas	14	238	499
34	Barton, St. David's,	pa	Somerset	Somerton	4	Glastonbury	7	Castle Cary	7	120	410
36	Barton, (Great)	pa	Suffolk	Bury	3	Ixworth	4	Thetford	13	74	702
5	Barton Hartshorne	pa	Buckingham	Buckingham	4	Bicester	8	Brackley	6	59	145
39	Barton on the heath[B]	pa	Warwick	Shipston	6	L. Compton	2	Chip. Norton	7	79	208

[A] BARTON. Stockbridge Hall, an ancient edifice, was the seat of the Lancasters, whose arms are yet seen on the ceiling of the dining-room, and who continued here through twelve generations, when their estates fell to the Lowthers. The church, which is a low and extensive building, with a heavy tower between the chancel and the nave, contains the tomb of one Remarkable epitaph. of the Lancasters; some escutcheons of several families in the neighbourhood, and a brass plate, on which is this remarkable epitaph:—

"Under this stone, reader, interred doth lie,
Beauty and virtue's true epitomy.
At her appearance the noone sun
Blushed and shrunk in, 'cause quite undone.
In her concentered did all graces dwell;
God plucked my rose that he might take a smell.
I'll say no more, but weeping, wish I may,
Soone with thy dear chaste ashes come to lay."

The lady thus extravagantly eulogised, was Frances, the wife of Launcelot Dawes; she died in 1673. Barton school was founded in 1641, by four priests, natives of this parish.

[B] BARTON. Near this village is a large stone, called Four-shire stone, from its forming the point of junction of the four counties of Gloucester, Worcester, Warwick, and Oxford. Here once resided an attorney of so pacific a disposition that he usually acted as mediator when disputes arose. This anomalous person, named Dover, instituted the annual festivities termed Cotswold Games, and was for forty years their chief supporter. Cotswold games. These diversions were celebrated upon the Cotswold Hills, in Gloucestershire, and prodigious multitudes are said to have resorted to them. They consisted of wrestling, cudgel-playing, leaping, pitching the bar, throwing the sledge, tossing the pike, with various other feats of strength and activity. A castle of boards was erected on this occasion, from which guns were frequently discharged. Dover received permission from James I. to hold these sports, and he appeared at their celebration in the very clothes which that monarch had formerly worn; but it is said there was much more dignity in his form and aspect. John Heywood, the epigramatist, speaking of these games, says—

"He fometh like a bore, the beaste should seem bold,
For he is as fierce as a lyon of Cotsolde."

Map	Names of Places		County	Number of Miles From						Dist. Lond.	Popul ation.
24	Barton[A]	m.t.	Lincoln	Hull	7	Brigg	11	Lincoln	34	167	3231
22	Barton on Irwell	to	Lancaster	Manchester	6	Newton	14	Warrington	14	185	8976
36	Barton, Little	pa	Suffolk	Mildenhall	1	Newmarket	9	Bury	12	70	591
44	Barton, St. Mary,	chap	N.R. York	Darlington	5	Richmond	7	Barnard Cas.	14	238	....
35	Barton	chap	Stafford	Burton on Tr.	5	Lichfield	9	Abbotts Brom	8	130	1344
28	Barton Segrave	pa	Northamp.	Kettering	2	Thrapston	8	Wellingboro	8	75	203
16	Barton Stacey	pa	Hants.	Whitchurch	6	Andover	6	Winchester	9	62	626
31	Barton Steeple[B]	pa	Oxford	Deddington	5	Woodstock	7	Charlbury	9	63	606
15	Barton Street	ham	Gloucester	Gloucester	1	Cheltenham	9	Ross	17	103	786
43	Barton in Street	pa	N.R. York	New Malton	5	Pickering	5	Helmsley	10	222	436
27	Barton Turf	pa	Norfolk	Coltishall	5	Worstead	4	Norwich	13	121	391
31	Barton Westcott	pa	Oxford	Enstone	4	Woodstock	7	Deddington	5	64	258
43	Barton in the Willows,	t	N.R. York	York	10	New Malton	8	Sutton	10	206	202
45	Barugh	to	W.R. York	Barnsley	3	Wakefield	9	Huddersfield	14	175	946
43	Barugh, Gt. & Little,	pa	N.R. York	Pickering	3	New Malton	5	Scarborough	18	223	294
23	Barwell	pa	Leicester	Hinckley	2	M. Bosworth	7	Leicester	11	101	1505
14	Barwick	pa	Essex	Chipp. Ongar	6	Dunmow	8	Chelmsford	10	27	97
34	Barwick	pa	Somerset	Yeovil	2	Sherborne	6	Crewkherne	8	123	415
41	Barwick Basset	pa	Wilts	Calne	7	Swindon	8	Marlborough	8	83	164

[A] BARTON. This ancient town is pleasantly situated about three-quarters of a mile from the southern bank of the Humber. It was formerly surrounded by a rampart and fossee, the remains of which are still discernable. It was doubtless a place of great strength before the conquest, and served as a barrier against the irruptions of the Saxons and Danes. At the period of the conquest it was a principal port of the Humber, and Once a place of importance. until the rise of Kingston-upon-Hull it enjoyed an extensive commerce. At present its derives its principal consequence from being the point whence the communication with the Lincoln road is continued across the Humber to Hull, a distance of about six miles and a half.

Market, Monday.—Fair, Trinity Thursday, for cattle.—Mail arrives 3.0 afternoon; departs 11.15 morning—Inn, The Waterside Inn.

[B] STEEPLE BARTON. In this parish is situated Rowsham, which was, for several centuries, the seat of the Dormers, and it continued in their possession until the decease of General Dormer, in the year 1750. That gentleman bequeathed the mansion and estates to his cousin, Sir Rowsham House. Clement Cottrell, Knight, Master of the Ceremonies to George II., who annexed the name of Dormer to his own, and in whose family the property has since remained. The situation is extremely fine, and the grounds, which were laid out by Kent, during the life-time of General Dormer, afford a variety of picturesque and pleasant views. The mansion was built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, but a few alterations were made at subsequent periods. The walls are embattled, and the doors are singularly enough perforated with holes (with slides to cover) so as to admit muskets being pointed through them. There is a large hall, and valuable library, containing many old and rare authors. A very excellent collection of paintings, (about 180 in number), and of busts and other figures in bronze, (amounting to fifty-five), has also been formed here. Horace Walpole, in one of his eloquent letters to George Montague, has thus spoken of this place:—"But the greatest pleasure we had, was in seeing Sir Charles Cotterell's, at Rowsham: it reinstated Kent with me; he has no where shewn so much taste. The house is old, and was bad; he has improved it—stuck as close as he could to gothic; has made a delightful library, and the whole is comfortable. The garden is Daphne in little, the sweetest little groves, streams, glades, porticoes, cascades, and rivers imaginable: all the scenes are perfectly classic. Well, if I had such a house, such a library, so pretty a place, and so pretty a wife, I think I should let King George send to Herenhausen for a Master of the Ceremonies." The pleasure-grounds are beautifully shaded by flourishing and noble beech trees; they are also ornamented by several stone statues, which all throw up water, except a very fine one of the dying gladiator, and a group of the lion tearing the horse, by Sheemacher.