VOWMINE, partly in Clifford parish, and partly in that of Dorstone, and popula. returned with them accordingly. 21 miles W. from the latter.

WACTON, 3 miles N.W. from Bromyard. Popula. 113.

WALFORD, 2 miles S.W. from Ross.

Popula. 1,060.

WALFORD, in Lentwardine parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles distant S.W.

WALTERSTONE, 14 miles S.W. from Hereford. Popula. 176.

WHITTON, in Lentwardine parish, and popula. included therein. mile distant E.

WIGMORE, 7 miles S.W. from Ludlow. Popula. 429. Fairs, April 16, May 6, Aug. 5, horned cattle, horses, and sheep. Here there was an Augustine Monastery, founded, in the year 1100, by Ralph de Mortimer; but, for want of water and convenience, shifted up and down, and finally settled into a stately monastery, a mile beyond the town; valued at 3021. 12s. 34d. yearly, now worth 6,052l. 5s. 10d.; granted, 2 Edw. VI., to Sir Thomas Palmer.

one house, 13 miles from Hereford.

WEONARDS (St.), 9 miles W. from Ross. Popula. 642. WESTHIDE, in Stoke-Edith parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles N. WESTWOOD, in Thornbury parish, and popula. included therein. mile distant S.W.

pula. included therein. 2 miles distant N.

WICKTON, in Stoke-Prior parish, and popula. included therein. WINFORTON, 14 miles S. from Hereford. Popula. 169. WINSLOW, in Bromyard parish, and popula. included therein. WINTERCOTT, in Leominster parish, and popula. included therein. WITHINGTON, 5 miles N.E. from Hereford. Popula. 806. WOLFERLOW, 4 miles N.E. from Bromyard. Popula. 117, WOOLHOPE, 10 miles N. from Ross. Popula. 825.

WORMBRIDGE, 9 miles S.W.from Hereford. Popula. 95.

Hereford. Popula. 270,

WESTON-UNDER-PENYARD, 24 miles S.E. from Ross. Popula. 674. WHARTON, in Leominster parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles distant S.S.E.

WHILE.-See Puddlestone. 1 mile dis-
tant N.
WHITBOURNE, 4 miles N.E. from
Bromyard. Popula. 821.,
WHITCHURCH, 7 miles S. W. from Ross.
Popula. 730.

ford. Popula. 131. Here was an Augustine Abbey, founded, in the time of King John, by Gilbert Talbot; valued at 831. 10s. 2d. yearly, now worth 1,670l. 3s. 4d.; granted, 37 Hen. VIII., to Edward Lord Clinton.

YARKHILL, 7 miles N.E. from Hereford. Popula. 435.

YARPOLE, 4 miles NW. from Leominster. Popula. 622.

YATTON, in Marcle-Much parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile N.E. from How-Capel.

Popula, 268.

Popula. 181.

152

AN INLAND COUNTY, bounded on the North by Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire, on the East by Essex, on the South by Middlesex, and on the West by Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. It is about 36 miles long, and 16 broad. It is divided into the eight hundreds of Braughin, Broadwater, Cashio, Dacorum, Edwintree, Hertford, Hitchin and Picton, and Odsey. Its RIVERS are, the Lea, the Maran, the Rib, the Quin (these four form the New River, which supplies so large a part of London with water), the Coln, the Stort, and the Verlam. It has 16 Market-towns ; namely, St. Albans, Baldock, Barnet, Berkhampstead, Bishop-Stortford, Hatfield, Hertford, Hitchen, Hoddesden, Rickmansworth, Royston, Standon, Stevenage, Tring, Ware, Watford. It is in the PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY, in the DIOCESES OF LONDON AND LINCOLN, and it is in the HOME CIRCUIT. It sends 6 members to parliament; 2 for the county, and 2 for each of the bo. roughs, St. Albans and Hertford. Hertfordshire contains 528 square miles, or 337,920 acres; and 132 parishes. It has 20 monastic establishments, 29 public charities; it has 8 parishes with less than 100 inhabitants, 8 parishes with no parsonage-house, 33 parishes with parsonage-houses unfit to live in; the POOR-RATES of this county were in 1818, 115,920l. 7s. 11 d., the number of PAUPERS is 12,274, the rental of the county, by a return made to parliament in 1818, was 571,107. 4s., the population, according to a return laid before parliament in 1821, was 129,714; the number of inhabited houses in 1821 was 23,178; the number of uninhabited houses at the same epoch, 509; the poorrates are one-fourth of the rental, the number of paupers, compared with the number of houses, is one to two; the poor-rates in 1776 were 25,2411.; the number of persons to every square mile of this county is 245; the number of acres to a person, 2; the number of acres to a house, 14; the male population, in 1821, was 64,121;

the families employed in agriculture were in number 13,485; the families employed in handicraft were 7,395 in number; the number of other families was 4,750; the agricultural male population, 33,041; able labourers, 16,520; the number of acres in this county to every able-bodied labourer is 20. Hertfordshire has no considerable hills, nor has it any deep vales; it is, for the greater part, inclosed; and, if the woods are not extensive, they are numerous, besides the great quantity of wood grown in the hedge-rows. The northern part of the county is the most hilly, a range of hills extending from the neighbourhood of King's-Langley towards Berkhampstead and Tring. The most general soils of Hertfordshire are loam and clay, with, very frequently, a mixture of sand, and, as often, of flints; but in the northern part of the county, a great deal of chalky land is found. Indeed, a considerable part of the county has an under stratum of chalk. The produce is chiefly grain of the three principal kinds; wheat, barley, and oats; and, in the produce of these, it is esteemed little inferior to any county in England, good crops of turnips also are produced; and, in the neighbourhood of Rick mansworth, Sanet, Kings-Langley, Abbots-Langley, Flaunden, Bovington, and Watford, there are good and productive orchards. The cattle fattened here are principally those brought out of Wales, Devonshire, or Herefordshire, and the sheep are, for the greater part, a breed between the Cotswold and the New Leicester; and, in many parts of the county, these are fed on oil cake. There are no mines in the county, and the manufacturing carried on is of the best possible kind; individuals manufacture cotton and silk, or straw plait, and dispose of it at the weekly markets for their own profit, and in these manufactures, a large part of the female population of many neighbourhoods find a good living. ABBOTS-LANGLEY, 4 miles S.W. from St. Albans. Popula. 1,733.

ALBANS (St.), 21 miles N.W. from London, containing the three parishes of St. Albans, or the Abbey, St. Michael, and St. Peter. Popula. 6,650. Market, Sat.; fairs, March 25 and 26, Oct. 10 and 11, servants, horses, cows, and sheep. A corporate town, having a mayor, high steward, recorder, twelve aldermen, a town-clerk, and twentyfour assistants. Sends two members to parliament: right of election in the mayor, aldermen, and freemen, and householders only as pay scot and lot: number of voters, 650. Here there were, a Benedictine Abbey, founded, in the year 793, by King Offa, for 100 monks, in honour of St. Alban, the first Briton who suffered martyrdom; valued 2,510l. 6s. 14d. yearly, now worth 50,206l. 2s. 6d.; granted, 7 Edw. VI., to the mayor and burgesses. St. Julian's Hospital, founded, in the time of Hen. I., by Jeffrey, the Abbot, near this town, on the London-road, for leprous persons; granted, 36 Hen. VIII., to Richard Lee. And at Pree, near St. Albans, there was a Benedictine Nunnery, founded, in the year 1190, by Garinus, Abbot of St. Albans; granted, 32 Hen. VIII., to Ralph Rawlet, Esq. ALBURY, 34 miles N.E. from Standon.

Popula. 596. Fair, July 17, toys. ALDBURY, 24 miles N.E. from Tring. Popula. 676.

ALDENHAM, 24 miles N.E. from Wat-
ford. Popula. 1,399.
AMWELL (Great), 1 mile S.E. from
Ware. Popula. 1,110.
AMWELL (Little), in All-Saints parish,
Hertford, and popula. included therein.
mile distant N. from the foregoing.
ANSTEY, 6 miles N. from Standon.
Popula. 440.

ASHWELL, 4 miles N.N.E. from Baldock.
Popula. 915.

ASPENDEN, 51 miles N.N.W. from Standon. Popula. 455.

Aug. 5, Oct. 2, Dec. 11, large fairs for cheese, household goods, and cattle. BARKWAY, 9 miles N. from Standon. Popula. 995. Fair, July 20, pedlary

ware.

BARLEY, 24 miles S.E. from Royston. Popula. 695.

BARNET (Chipping), 11 miles N. from London. Popula. 1,755. Market, Mon.; fairs, April 8, 9, 10, linen drapery, mercery, toys, &c. The harvest fair, or Welsh fair, Sept. 4, 5, Welsh cattle and horses; Sept. 6, mercery, &c., and sometimes a few horses, pigs, &c. BARNET (East), 14 mile S. from BarnetChipping. Popula. 507.

BAYFORD, 44 miles W. from Hoddesdon. Popula. 307.

BENGEO, 1 mile N.E. from Hertford. Popula. 731.

BENNINGTON, 44 miles S.E. from Stevenage. Popula. 658. Fair, July 10, pedlary ware. BERKHAMPSTEAD (Great), 26 miles N.W. from London. Popula. 2,310. Shrove-Mon., Market, Sat.; fairs, Whit-Mon., a small fair for cattle Aug. 5, cheese; Sept. 29, statute fair; Oct. 11, statute. Two Hospitals stood here in the reign of King John, for Poor Lepers; revenues granted, 36 Hen. VIII., to Robert Hordem. BERKHAMPSTEAD (Little), 4 miles S.W. from Hertford. Popula. 439. BISHOP-STORTFORD, 39 miles N.E. from London. Popula. 3,358. Market, Thurs.; fairs, Holy-Thurs., Thurs. after Trinity-Sun., and Oct. 10, horses and cattle.

BOVINGDON, in Hemel-hempstead parish, and popula. included therein. 34 miles distant S.W.

BRAINTFIELD, 3 miles N.W. from Hertford. Popula. 232.

BRAUGHIN, 1 mile N. from Standon. Popula. 1,228. Fair, Whit-Mon., for toys.

Hertford, and popula. included therein. 24 miles S. from Hertford.

BROADFIELD, 1 mile N.N.E. from
Cottered. Popula. 23.

BROXBURN, 1 mile S. from Hoddes-
don. Popula. 1,888.
BUCKLAND, 44 miles S. from Royston.
Popula. 343.