sham. Popula. 137.

WITTERSHAM, 4 miles S. by E. from Tenterden. Popula. 911. Fair, May 1, pedlars' ware.

Popula. 165.

WOODCHURCH, 4 miles E. from Tenterden. Popula. 1,095. WOODNESBOROUGH, 1 mile W. from Sandwich. Popula. 689. Fair, May 28, toys.

WOOLWICH, 8 miles E. from London. Popula. 17,008.

WOOTTON, 7. miles S.E. from Canterbury. Popula. 131.

Popula. 2,357. Market, Tues.; fair, May 4, horses, bullocks, &c.

WYE, 3 miles N.E. from Ashford. Popula. 1,508. Market, Thurs.; fair, May 29, Sept. 30, horses, cattle, and pedlary. Here there was a College, founded, in the year 1431, by John Kempt, Archbishop of York; yearly value 931. 2s. Oдd., now worth 1,8621. Os. 10d.; granted, 36 Hen. VIII., to Walter Buckler.

Canterbury. Popula. 233.

WORD, or WORTH, 1 mile S. from Sandwich. Popula. 438.

Popula. 2,414. Fairs, Whit-Mon., Oct. 15 and 16, cattle and hops.

THIS is a maritime county, bounded on the North by Cumberland and Westmorland, on the East by Yorkshire, on the South by Cheshire, and on the West by the Irish sea. It is of very irregular form, about 74 miles in length, and about 444 in breadth. It is divided into six hundreds ; Amounderness, Blackburn, Leyland, Lonsdale north of the sands, Lonsdale south of the sands, and Salford. Its rivers are, the Culder, the Duddon, the Crake, the Loyne, the Douglas, the Ribble, the Mersey, and the Irwell. It has 28 market-towns; Blackburn, Bolton, Broughton, Burnley, Bury, Cartmel, Chorley, Clitheroe, Colne, Dalton, Garstang, Haslingdon, Hawkeshead, Horuby, Kirkham, Lancaster, Liverpool, Leigh, Manchester, Newton, Ormskirk, Poulton, Prescot, Preston, Rochdale, Ulverstone, Warrington, Wigan. It returns 14 members to parliament; 2 for the county, and two each for the boroughs of Lancaster, Liverpool, Preston, Newton, Wigan, and Clitheroe. Lancashire con

tains 1,831 square miles, or 1,171,840 acres, and 70 parishes. It had formerly 16 monastic establishments, 84 public charities; it has 4 parishes with no church, 1 parish with less than 100 inhabitants, 126 parishes with no parsonage-houses, 14 parishes with parsonagehouses unfit to live in; the poor-rates were, in 1818, 476,863l. 6s. 44d.; the number of paupers is 46,261, the rental of the county, according to a return made to parliament in 1818, was 3,087,7741. 8s. 9d.; the population, according to a return laid before parliament in 1821, was 1,052,859; the number of inhabited houses in 1821, was 176,449, the number of uninhabited houses at the same epoch 5,790; the poor-rates bear the proportion of one-sixth, compared with the rental; the number of paupers compared with the number of houses is 1 to 4; the poor-rates, in 1776, were 50,985; the number of persons to every square mile of this county is 575; the number of acres to a person 1; the number of acres to a house, 6; the male po

pulation, in 1821, was 512,476; the families employed in agriculture were in number 22,723; the families employed in handicraft were 152,271 in number; the number of other families was 28, 179; the agricultural male population 57,316; able labourers, 28,158; the number of acres in this county to every able-bodied labourer, 40. It is in the PROVINCE OF YORK, and in the DIOCESE OF CHESTER, and it is in the NORTHERN CIRCUIT. The aspect of this county is, in some parts, mountainous; as that of the northern side, and along the eastern border. Near the sea-coast, and along the southern ridge of the county, the ground is low and level: no county is more various in its soil; none has better than this in some, and none has worse than it has in many parts. The district which lies between the Ribble and the Mersey is a fine, sandy loam, with a sub-stratum of red rock, or of marl, approaching to clay. A vast district consists of moors, common, and peatlands, where nothing is cultivated, and nothing preserved but moor-game. The county is not remarkable for its produce; indeed, it does not rank with the ave rage of the counties of England in its agricultural products. Towards the seacoast, and in the other level spots, wheat and oats are produced in good quantity, and the dairies are tolerably good. The woodlands in this district are not worth mentioning, and it is only in the middle of the county that they are at all luxuriant. The cattle of Laucashire are not of a peculiar or superior breed; though, before the attention of the whole county was so turned to manufacturing as it has been of late, the breed of neat cattle was celebrated. The cows are large, with long wide horns; the sheep of the finest parts of the county are generally the produce of

other counties, and those fed on the mountains are such as we always find in such districts, small and ill-shaped, but extremely hardy. Coal-mines, of considerable extent, are worked in several parts of the county, but more particularly in the neighbourhoods of Manchester, Bolton, and Wigan, and near the latter is found what is called the canal-coal:-slate in great quantity near Hawkeshead, and it is thence imported to different parts of the country. Iron ore is found very abundant in the vicinage of Dalton and of Ulverstone; and at Anglesack, near Chorley, there is one lead-mine of considerable value. In

manufactures it is that this county has for some years been the rival of almost the whole world; Manchester, Lancaster, Bolton, Wigan, Blackburn, Preston, Rochdale, and many others that might be enumerated, are all very large and populous places, and all absolutely dependent upon the manufacture of cotton goods.

ABRAM, in Wigan parish, and popula. included therein. 34 aniles distant S.E. ACCRINGTON (New), in Whalley parish, and popula. included therein. S miles E.S.E. from Blackburn. ACCRINGTON (Old), in Whalley parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles E. from Blackburn.

ADGARLEY, in Urswick parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles distant S.

ADLINGTON, in Standish parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles distant N.E. AIGHTON-BAILEY and CHAIGLEY, in Mitton parish, Yorkshire, and po pula. included therein. 64 miles N. from Blackburn.

AINSWORTH, in Middleton parish, and popula. included therein. AINTREE, in Sephton parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles distant S.W.

ALDCLIFFE, in Lancaster parish, and

popula. included therein. 14 mile distant S.W.

ALDINGHAM (Upper and Lower), 41 miles S.E. from Ulverstone. Popula. 760.

ALKRINGTON, in Oldham parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant S.W.

ALLERTON, in Childwall parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles distant S.

ALLITHWAITE (Lower), in Cartmell parish, and popula. included therein. mile distant S.

ALLITHWAITE (Upper), in Cartmell parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles distant N.N.E.

ALSTON with HATHERALL, in Ribchester parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles distant W.

Popula. 499.

ALTHAM, in Whalley parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles W. from Burnley.

ANDERTON, in Standish parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles distant N.E.

ANGLEYARKE, in Bolton parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles distant N.W.

'APPLETON.-See Widness. 44 miles

S.S.E. from Prescot.

ARBURY.-See Houghton. 3 miles S. from Newton.

included therein. 6 miles E. from Has-
lingden.

BALDERSTON, in Blackburn parish, and
popula. included therein. 44 miles
N.W. from Blackburn.
BAMFORD.-See Birtle.

BARDSEA, in Urswick parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant E.

BARE, in Lancaster parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles distant N.N.W.

BARLEY with WHITLEY-BOOTHS, in Whalley parish, and popula. included therein. 44 miles S.E. from Clithero.

ARKHOLME with CAWOOD, in Melling parish, and popula, included therein. 24 miles distant N.W. ASHTON with STODDAY, in Lancaster parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles S. from Lancaster.

ASHTON.-See Lea. 2 miles W. from Preston.

ASHTON-IN-MACKERFIELD, in Winwick parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles N. from Newton. ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, 6 miles E. from Manchester. Popula. 25,967. Fairs, March 23, April 29, July 25, Nov. 21, horned cattle, horses, toys, &c.

ASHWORTH, in Middleton parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles W. from Rochdale.

ASPULL, in Wigan parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles distant N.E. ASTLEY, in Leigh parish, and popula. included therein. 34 miles E. from Leigh.

ATHERTON, in Leigh parish, and po

pula. included therein.mile N. from Leigh.

AUDENSHAW, in Ashton-under-Lyne parish, and popula. included therein. g1 mile distant S.W.

AUGHTON, in Halton parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles E. from Hornby.

parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles distant N.E.

BARROWFORD, in Whalley parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles S. from Clithero.

BARTON, in Preston parish, and popula.

included therein. 54 miles distant N. BARTON, in Eccles parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles distant S.W.

BECCONSALL.-See Heskett. 7 miles N.W. from Chorley.

BEDFORD, in Leigh parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles distant E.

BESWICK, in Manchester parish, and popula. included therein.

BICKERSTAFFE, in Ormskirk parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles distant S.E.

BILLINGE (Chapel and Upper), in Wigan parish, and 4 miles distant S.W. Popula. included with Wigan.

BILLINGTON, in Blackburn parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles N.N.W. from Blackburn.

BILLISBORROW, in Garstang parish, and popula. included therein. 44 miles distant S.E.

BIRKDALE, in Ormskirk parish, and popula. included therein. 64 miles

distant N.W.

BIRTLE with BAMFORD, in Middleton parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles N.E. from Manchester.

Popula. 1,279.

included therein. 34 miles distant S.

N

BÍSPHAM with NORBRECK, 24 miles W.N.W. from Poulton. Popula. 1,072. BLACKBURN, 2094 miles N.W. from London. Popula. 53,350. Market, Mon.; fairs, May 12, horned cattle, horses, and toys; Oct. 17, horses, horned cattle, and toys.

BLACKLEY, in Manchester parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles N.N.W. from Manchester. BLACKROD, in Bolton parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles W. from Bolton-le-Moors.

BLATCHINWORTH, in Rochdale parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles N.E. from Rochdale.

BLAWITH, in Ulverstone parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles N.

from Ulverstone.

BLEASDALE, in Lancaster parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles E. from Garstang.

BOLD, in Prescot parish, and popula. in

cluded therein. 4 miles distant S.W. BOLTON-LE-MOORS, or Great, 196 miles N.W. from London. Popula. 50,197. Market, Mon.; fairs, July 30 and 31, Oct. 13 and 14, horses, horned cattle, and cheese.

BOLTON-LE-SANDS, 34 miles N. from
Lancaster. Popula. 1,821.
BOLTON (Little), in Great-Bolton parish,
and popula. included therein. mile
N. from Bolton.

BOLTON, in Urswick parish, and popula.
included therein. 2 miles distant S.W.
BONDS. See Barnacre.
14 mile S.E.

from Garstang.

BRADSHAW, in Bolton-le-Moors parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles N.E. from Bolton.

BREIGHTMET, in Bolton-le-Moors pa. rish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles distant E.N.E. BRETHERTON, in Croston parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles dis tant N.W.

BRIERSCLIFFE with EXTWISTLE, in Whalley parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles S.W. from Colne. BRINDLE, 5 miles S.E. from Preston. Popula. 1,574.

BROCKHOLES.-See Grimsargh. 1 mile N.E. from Preston.

BROUGHTON, in Manchester parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant N.N.E.

BROUGHTON, in Preston parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles distant N.

BROUGHTON, in Cartmell parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles N. from Cartmell.

BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS, in Kirkby-Ireleth parish, and popula. included therein. 280 miles N.W. from London. Fair, Aug. 1, woollen yarn.

BRYNING, in Kirkham parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles distant S.W.

BULK, in Lancaster-parish, and popula. included therein. 14 mile distant N.N.E.

BURNAGE, in Manchester parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles distant S.

and popula. included therein. BOOTHS (Lower), in Whalley parish, and popula. included therein.

BOOTLE with LINACRE, in Walton-onthe-Hill parish, and popula. included

therein. 1 mile distant W.

BORWICK, in Warton parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles distant N.E. BOWLAND with LEAGRAM, in Whalley

parish, and popula, included therein. BRADFORD, in Manchester parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile dis

tant.

pula. included therein. 210 miles N.N.W. from London. Market, Sat.; fairs, March 6, Easter-Eve, May 6, 13, July 10, Oct. 11, horned cattle, horses, and sheep.

BURROW, in Tunstal parish, and popula.

included therein. 1 mile distant N. BURTON-WOOD, in Warrington parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles N.W. from Warrington.

BURY, 194 miles N.W. from London.

Popula. 34,581. Market, Thurs.; fairs,
March 5, May 3, second Thurs. after
Whit-Sun., Sept. 18, horned cattle,
horses, and woollen cloth.

BUTTERWORTH, in Rochdale parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles distant E.

fairs, March 26, May 5, Aug. 20, horned cattle; Sept. 5, toys and small

wares.

included therein.

CARLETON, in Poulton parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant N.W.

CARNFORTH, in Warton parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant S. CARTMELL, 264 miles N.W. from London. Popula. 4,923. Market, Mon.; fairs, Whit-Mon., first Tues. after Oct. 23, pedlary. Here was an Augustine Priory, founded, in the year 1188, by William Mareschall, Earl of Pembroke; yearly value 2127. 11s. 10d.; now worth 4,251.16s. 8d.; granted, 32 Hen. VIII.,

to John Holcroft.

ter parish, and popula. included therein. 34 miles S.W. from Manchester. CHORLTON-ROW, in Manchester parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles distant S.

CHILDWALL, 5 miles E.S.E. from Liverpool. Popula. 6,618.

CHIPPING, 10 miles N.W. from Blackburn. Popula. 1,735. Fairs, EasterTuesday, St. Bartholomew, Aug. 24, cattle.

CHURCH-CONISTONE, in Ulverstone parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles W. from Hawkeshead. CHURCH-TOWN, in Whalley parish, and popula. included therein. CLAIFE, in Hawkeshead parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles distant E.S.E.

CLAUGHTON, 2 miles S.S.E. from Hornby. Popula. 123.

CLAUGHTON, in Garstang parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles distant S.E.

CLAYTON-LE-DALE, in Blackburn parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles from Chorley.

CLAYTON-LE-MOORS, in Whalley parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles N.N.W. from Haslingden. CLAYTON-LE-WOODS, in Leyland parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant N.E.

CLEVELY, in Garstang parish, and popula. included therein. 34 miles distant N.N.E. CLIFTON, in Eccles parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles distant N.

CLIFTON with SALWICK, in Kirkham

parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles distant E.S.E. CLITHERO, in Whalley parish, and popula. included therein. 216 miles N.W. from London. Market, Sat.; fairs, July 21, horned cattle, and woollen cloth; March 24, fourth Sat. after St. Michael, Sept. 29, Dec. 7, ditto, and horses. Not a corporate town, but sends two members to parliament: right of election in the burgesses and freemen number of voters 90 nominally, actually but 2.