WALTON (West), 2 miles N. from Wisbeach. Popula. 735. WALSHAM (North), 123 miles N.E. from London. Popula. 2,303. Market, Thurs; fair, Wednesday before Holy Thursday, cattle and petty chapmen. WALSHAM (South, St. Mary and St. Lawrence), 9 miles E.N.E. from Norwich. Popula. 524.

WALSINGHAM (Great, or New), 114 miles N.E. from London. Popula. 413. Fair, Whit-Monday, pedlary and horses. Here there were an Augustine Priory, built in the year 1061, by the widow of Richoldis de Favarches; yearly value 446/. 14s. 4 d., now worth 8,9341.78.6d.; granted, 31 Hen. VIII, to Thomas Sidney. A Franciscan Friary, founded about the year 1346, by Elizabeth de Burgo, Countess of Clare; value yearly 3., now worth 601.; granted, 36 Hen. VIII., to John Eyer.

WALSINGHAM (Little, or Old), 2 miles from New Walsingham. Popula. 1,067. WALSOKEN, 1 mile N.E. from Wisbeach. Popula. 1,240.

WARHAM (All-Saints), with WARHAM (St. Mary), 2 miles S.E. from Wells. Popula. 400.

WARHAM (St. Mary.)-See WarhamAll-Saints. 1 mile distant N.E.

there was an Alien Priory, founded in the time of William the Conqueror, by William de Streis; granted, 2 Edw. VI., to the Bishops of Ely.

WENDLING, 4 miles W. from East Dereham. Popula. 351. Here there was a Premonstratensian Monastery, founded, 50 Hen. III., by the Rev. William de Wendling; valuation, 551. 18s. 44d., now worth 1,118l. 7s. 6d. ; granted, 16 Eliz., to Edward Dyer and H. Cressener.

WEREHAM, 4 miles S.E. from Downham. Popula. 546. Here there was an Alien Priory, founded by the Earls of Clare, in the time of Rich. I.; value 71. 16s. yearly, now worth 156l.; granted to Thomas Guibon and William Mynn.

WEST-ACRE, 10 miles S.E. from Lynn

Regis, and 44 miles N. W. from Swaffham. Popula. 362. Here there was an Augustine Priory, founded, in the time of William Rufus, by Oliver, the parish priest; value 308/. 19s. 114d. yearly, now worth 6,179l. 19s. 2d.; granted,' 7 Edw. VI., to Thomas Gresham. WESTFIELD, 2 miles S. from East Dereham. Popula. 165.

WESTON, 5 miles S. from Reepham. Popula. 392.

WESTWICK, 2 miles S. from North Walsham. Popula. 182.

ham-Westgate. Popula. 16. WATLINGTON, 5 miles N. from Downham. Popula. 488.

WATTON, 91 miles N.E. from London. Popula. 894. Market, Wed.; fairs, July 10, Oct. 10, Nov. 4, cattle, sheep, &c.

WAXHAM, 8 miles E. from Worstead. Popula. 63.

WEASENHAM (All-Saints), 8 miles N.N.E. from Swaffham. Popula. 284. WEASENHAM (St. Peters), 6 miles S.W. from Fakenham. Popula. 293. Fair, Jan. 25, toys.

Popula. 230. Here there was an Augustine Priory, founded, in the reign of Hen. II., by Sir Ralph Meyngaryn; yearly value 281. 7s. 2d., now worth 5671. 3s. 4d.; granted to Richard Heydon 37 Hen. VIII.

WEYBRIDGE, in the parish of Acle, 8 miles N.W. from Yarmouth. Here there was an Augustine Priory, founded early, by the Bigod family; value 71. 13s. 4d. yearly, now worth 153l. 6s. 8d.; granted, 30 Hen. VIII., to Richard Fulmerstone.

WHEATACRE (All-Saints), 3 miles N.E. from Beccles. Popula. 159.

ham. Popula. 196.

ham. Popula. 522.

WELLS-NEXT-THE-SEA, 128 miles N.E. from London. Popula. 2,950. Here

Norwich. Popula. 33.

WHITWELL, 1 mile S. W. from Reepham Popula. 414.

Reepham. Popula. 313.

WIGGENHALL (St. German), 4 miles

S. from Lynn-Regis. Popula. 584. WIGGENHALL (St. Mary-Magdalen), 8 miles E. from Wisbeach. Popula. 551. Here there was an Augustine Nunnery, founded, in the south of the parish of Wiggenhall, in the year 1181, by the Convent of Reynham; yearly value S1l. 16s. 7d., now worth 636l. 11s. 8d. ;` granted to Sir John Gage.

WIGGENHALL (St. Mary), 8 miles N.E. from Wisbeach. Popula. 239. WIGGENHALL(St. Peter), 9 miles E.N.E. from Wisbeach. Popula. 122. WIGHTON, 2 miles S.S.E. from Wells. Popula. 507.

WILBY, 3 miles N.E. from East Harling.
Popula. 103.
WILTON.-See Hockwold. 1 mile dis-

tant E.

WIMBOTSHAM, 1 mile N. from Downham. Popula. 413.

WINCH (East), 44 miles S.E. from Lynn-
Regis. Popula. 376.
.WINCH (West),

miles S. from Lynn

Regis. Popula. 315. WINFARTHING, 34 miles N. from Diss. Popula. 683.

WINTERTON, 8 miles N. from Yarmouth. Popula. 545. WITCHINGHAM (Great), 2 miles S. from Reepham. Popula. 514. WITCHINGHAM (Little, or St. Faith), 1 mile S.W. from Reepham. Popula. 52. WITTON, 3 miles E. from North Walsham. Popula. 236.

WITTON, 5 miles E. from Norwich. Popula. 112.

WIVETON, mile S. from Cley. Popula. 209.

WOLTERTON, 4 miles N.N.E. from

Aylsham. Popula. 37.

WOLVERTON, 54 miles N. from LynnRegis. Popula. 159.

WOODBASTWICK, 74 miles N.E. from Norwich. Popula. 236.

WOOD-RISING, 44 miles N.E. from

Watton. Popula. 119.

WOODTON, 4 miles N. from Bungay. Popula. 505.

WOOTTON (North), 3 miles N. from Lynn-Regis. Popula. 187.

WOOTTON (South), 2 miles N. from Lynn-Regis. Popula. 151. WORMEGAY, 6 miles N.E. from Downham. Popula. 362. Here there was an Augustine Priory, founded in the time of Rich. I., by William de Warren; granted, 4 Edw. VI., to the Bishop of Norwich.

WORSTEAD, 124 miles N.E. from London. Popula.706. Market, Sat.; fairs, May 12, cattle, horses, and petty chap

men.

WORTHING, 34 miles N. from East

Dereham. Popula. 113.

WORTWELL, 24 miles N.E. from Harleston. Popula. 486.

WRAMPLINGHAM, 3 miles N. from Wymondham. Popula. 215.

WREATHAM (East and West), 5 miles N.E. from Thetford. Popula. 342. WRENINGHAM, 3 miles S.E. from Wymondham. Popula. 427.

WRETTON, 5 miles S.E. from Downham. Popula. 419.

WROXHAM, 6 miles N.E. from Norwich. Popula. 351. WYMONDHAM, 100 miles N.E. from London. Popula. 4,708. Market, Fri.; fairs, Feb. 12, May 16, Sept. 29, horses, lean cattle, and petty chapmen. Here there were a Benedictine Monastery, founded, in the year 1107, by William de Albini; yearly value 721. 5s. 4d., now worth 1,445l. 6s. 8d.; granted, 37 Hen. VIII., to Sir Walter Hadden. An Hospital, founded by William de Albini, in the year 1146; granted to the corporation of Norwich.

YARMOUTH, 124 miles N.E. from London. Popula. 18,040. Market, Wed. and Sat.; fairs, Friday and Saturday in Easter-week, petty chapmen. A corporate town, having a mayor, recorder, seventeen aldermen, and thirty-six com

mon-councilmen. Sends two members to parliament right of election in the burgesses at large number of voters, 800. Here there were, a Benedictine Cell, built in the year 1101, by Herbert Bishop of Norwich, now belongs to the cathedral of Norwich. St. Mary's Hospital, built in the time of Edw. I., by Thomas Falstoff; the chapel and rooms are now a grammar school, and workhouse for the poor. A Dominican Friary, built, 55 Hen. III., by Sir William Garbridge; granted, 34 Hen. VIII., to Richard Andrews and Leonard Cham

berlain. A Grey Friary, founded in
the time of Hen. III., by Sir William
Garbridge; granted, 33 Hen. VIII., to
Sir Richard Williams, alias Cromwell.
A Carmelite Friary, founded, in the
year 1278, by King Edward I.; granted,
36 Hen. VIII., to Thomas Denton and
Richard Nottington.

YAXHAM, 24 miles S.E. from East Dere-
ham. Popula. 505.
YELVERTON.-See Alpington. 7 miles
S.E. from Norwich.

It is

AN INLAND COUNTY, nearly in the centre of England, bounded on the North by Leicestershire, Rutlandshire, and Lin. colnshire; on the East by Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon, and Bedfordshire; on the South by Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire; and, on the West, by Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. nearly 60 miles long, and from eight to 22 miles broad. It is divided into 19 hundreds; namely, Chipping-Warden, Clely, Corby, Fawsley, Green'sNorton, Guilsborough, Hamsfordshoe, Higham-Ferrers, Huxloe, King's-Sutton, Navisford, Nobottle-Grove, Orlingbury, Polebrook, Rothwell, Spelhoe, Towcester, Willybrook, Wymesley. The principal RIVER of this county is the Nen, or Nyne. There are 12 MARKETTOWNS; Brackley, Daventry, HighamFerrers, Kettering, Northampton, Oundle, Peterborough, Rockingham, Rothwell, Thrapston, Towcester, Wellingborough. The county returns 9 members to parliament; 2 for the shire, 2 for the city of Peterborough, 2 for each of the boroughs of Northampton and Brackley, and 1 for Higham-Ferrers. This county contains 1017 square miles, or 650,880 acres; and 306 parishes. It had 31 monastic establishments, and 58 public charities; it has 1 parish with no church; 16 parishes with less than a hundred inhabitants; 16 parishes with no parsonage-houses; 33 parishes with parsonage-houses unfit to live in. The POOR-RATES were, in 1818, 175,955l. 14s. 94d.; the number of

The

PAUPERS is 16,043; the rental of the county, according to a return made to parliament in 1818, was 942,1617. 15s. 44d.; the population, according to a return laid before parliament in 1821, was 162,483; the number of inhabited houses, in 1821, was 32,503; the number of uninhabited houses at the same epoch was 527; the poorrates bear the proportion of one-fifth compared with the rental; the number of paupers, compared with the number of houses, is 1 to every 2; the poor-rates, in 1776, were 64,6321.; the number of persons to every square mile of this county is 150; the number of acres to a person, 4; the number of acres to a house, 20. male population, in 1821, was 79,575; the families employed in agriculture were in number 18,974; the families employed in handicraft were 11,695 in number; the number of other families was 4,883; the agricultural male population, 20,370; able labourers, 10,185; the number of acres in this county to every able-bodied labourer is, therefore, 63. It is in the PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY, partly in the DIOCESE OF PETERBOROUGH, and partly in that of LINCOLN; and in the MIDLAND CIPCUIT. This is a straggling, long district of land, having on the South-Eastern side of it, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Cambridgeshire, and on the North-Western side of it, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Rutlandshire, and Lin

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colnshire. It is neither a hilly nor a flat county, but consists generally of gently-rising ground. The quality of its soil is various, but for the most part consists of a rich, though rather light loam. The most prevalent system of husbandry in this county is that of grazing; but still great breadths of land are constantly under the plough. The woodlands are still considerable in Northamptonshire, as the forests of Rockingham, in the northern part of the county; those of Whittlewood and Selsey, in the southern part; and the chases of Geddington and Yardley.

These have been curtailed in every reign almost since that of King John, | before whose time they were very extensive. Rockingham forest still extends nearly twenty miles in length. The cattle of Northamptonshire are of a good qualtity, large in the carcass and of great depth, good as dairy animals, and profitable for grazing; the sheep are very much crossed with the new breed of the neighbouring county, Leicestershire. There are no mines of any kind in the county. The manufactures of the county are, at Northampton, making shoes for the London shoesellers, at Kettering and other places in the northern part of the county are some woollen manufactures, and at Towcester and the villages surrounding, lace-making is carried on very extensively.

ABINGTON, 1 mile N.E. from Northampton. Popula. 175.

ABTHORPE, 24 miles S.W. from Towcester. Popula. 417.

ADDINGTON (Great), 3

miles S.W.

from Thrapston. Popula. 256. ADDINGTON (Little), 4 miles S.W, from Higham Ferrers. Popula. 233. ADSTONE, in Cannon's-Ashby parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant N.E.

AILESWORTH, in Castor parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant N.

ALDERTON, 3 miles S.E. from Towcester. Popula. 177. ALDWINKLE (All-Saints), 2 miles N. from Thrapston. Popula. 240. ALDWINKLE (St. Peters), 2 miles N. from Thrapston. Popula. 166. APETHORPE, 5 miles N. from Oundle. Popula. 257.

APPLETREE, in Aston-le-Walls parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant S.

ARMSTON, in Polebrook parish, and po

pula. included therein. mile dis tant S. E.

ARTHINGWORTH, 4 miles W. from Rothwell. Popula. 210.

ASHBY (Cold), 10 miles N.E. from Daventry. Popula. 375.

ASHBY (St. Ledger), 4 miles N. from Daventry. Popula. 272.

ASHLEY, 44 miles N.E. from MarketHarborough. Popula. 367.

ASHTON, 5 miles E.N.E. from Towcester. Popula. 341.

ASHTON, in Oundle parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant E.

ASHTON, in Ufford parish, and popula.

included therein. 1 mile distant N.E. ASTON-LE-WALLS, 64 miles N. from Banbury. Popula. 271.

ASTROP, in King's-Sutton parish, and popula. included therein. mile distant N.

ASTWELL, partly in Syresham and partly in Wappenham parishes. Popula. returned with the latter. 14 mile distant S. from the latter.

AYNHO,

mile S.W. from Brackley.