popula. included therein. 1 mile dis- WESTON-ON-THE-GREEN, tant S.W. THAME, 46 miles N.W: from London. Popula. 2,479. Market, Tuesday; fairs, Easter-Tuesday, all sorts of cattle; Old Michaelmas, Oct. 10; horses, Here fat hogs, and hiring servants. there was a Cistercian Abbey, founded | in the year 1137, by the bounty of Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln; yearly value 2561. 15s. 74d., now worth 5,153. 12s. 6d.; granted, 1 Edw. VI., to Edward Duke of Somerset. TIDDINGTON, in Albury parish, aud popula. included therein.4 mile dis tant. THRUP, in Kidlington parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant N.W. TUSMORE, in Hardwicke parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant N.W. UPTON and SIGNET, in Burford parish, and popula. included therein. mile distant W. WALLCOT, in Charlbury parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant N.W. WARBOROUGH, 3 miles N. from Wallingford. Popula. 634. WARDINGTON, in Cropredy parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant E. 4 miles S.W. from Bicester. Popula. 462. WESTWELL, 2 miles S.W. from Burford. WHEATFIELD, 3 miles N. from Wat- WHITCHURCH, 84 miles S.W. from Hen- WIGGINTON, 44 miles N.W. from Ded- included therein. WILLASON, in Mixbury parish, and WITNEY, 65 miles W.N.W. from Lon- WARMSCOMB, in Watlington parish, WOODCOTE.-See Southcote. Fairs, and popula. included therein. WARPSGROVE, 4 miles N.W. from Watlington. Popula. 27. WARTON (Over), 24 miles S.W. from WATERPERRY, 7 miles E. from Oxford. 44 miles W. from WATLINGTON, 45 miles W.N.W. from London. Popula. 1,479. Market, Saturday fairs, April 5; and Saturday before Oct. 10, cattle and hiring ser vants. WEALD.-See Bampton. mile dis tant S. Aug. 2, and Monday after Nov. 11, sheep, &c. 3 miles distant S. E. WOODEATON, 34 miles N. from Oxford. Popula. 69. WOODSTOCK, 62 miles N.W. from London. Popula. 1,455. Market. Tuesday; fairs, April 5, cheese, cattle and sheep; Tuesday in Whitsun-week, for pleasure, hardware, and horses, &c.; Aug. 2, cherries, &c.; Oct. 2, a great fair for cheese; Tuesday after Nov. 1, cattle, sheep, and cheese; Dec. 17, fat hogs and other cattle; Tuesday after Candlemas-day, a very large market for cattle. A corporate town, having a mayor, recorder, four aldermen, and sixteen common-councilmen : sends two members to parliament: right of election in the corporation and freemen number of voters, less than 200. WENDLESBURY, 2 miles S.W. from WOOLVERCOTT, 24 miles N. from Ox Bicester. Popula. 200. ford. Popula. 493, WOOTON, 2 miles N. from Woodstock. Popula. 1,084. WORTON, in Cassington parish, and popula. included therein. mile distant N.E. an Augustine Priory, founded in the reign of Henry III., by Mr. Michael Belet; yearly value 781. 14s. Sd., now worth 1,574. 5s.; granted, 36 Hen. VIII., to Sir Thomas Pope, who gave a part to Trinity College, Oxford. WORTON (Nether), 24 miles S.W. from YARNTON or YARRINGTON, 54 miles Deddington. Popula. 96. WROXTON, 24 miles N.W. from Banbury. Popula. 792. Here there was S.S.E. from Woodstock. Popula. 273. YELFORD, 34 miles N.E. from Bampton. Popula. 16. RUTLANDSHIRE. AN INLAND COUNTY, bounded on the Northeast by Lincolnshire; on the Southeast and South by Northamptonshire; and, on the West, by Leicestershire. It is about 18 miles in length, and 15 in breadth. It is divided into 5 hundreds ; Alstoe, East, Martinsley, Oakhamsoke, and Wrandike. The RIVERS of this county are, the Guash, or the Wash, and the Welland. The MARKET-TOWNS are, Oakham and Uppingham. The county sends only 2 members to parliament, being those for the shire. It is in the PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY, partly in the DIOCESE OF PETERBOROUGH, and partly in that of LINCOLN; and in the MIDLAND CIRCUIT. It contains 149 square miles, or 95,360 acres ; and 52 parisbes. It had 4 monastic establishments, and 6 public charities; it has 3 parishes with no churches; 8 parishes with less than 100 inhabitants; 7 parishes with no parsonage-houses; 14 parishes with parsonage-houses unfit to live in; the POOR-RATES were, in 1818, 18,0951. Os. 74d.; the number of PAUPERS 1,042; the rental of the county, according to a return made to parliament in 1818, was 133,4871. 5s. 6d.; the population, according to a return laid before parliament in 1821, was 18,487; the number of inhabited houses, in 1821, was 3,589; the number of uninhabited houses at the same epoch was 61; the poorrates bear the proportion of one-seventh of the rental; the number of paupers, compared with the number of houses, is 1 to every 3; the poor-rates, in 1776, were 2,641.; the number of persons to every square mile of this county is 123; the number of acres to a person, 5; the number of acres to a house, 26. The male population, in 1821, was 9,223; the families employed in agriculture were in number 2,410; the families employed in handicraft were 1,034 in number; the number of other families was 492; the agricultural male population, 5,647; able labourers, 2,823 ; the number of acres in this county to every able-bodied labourer is 33. This county is exceedingly pretty to the eye; consisting, with but little exception, of handsome valleys. The whole county, with the exception of the north-western part, bordering on Lincolnshire, consists of gently-rising hills with vales between. The proportion of arable and pasture land is very nearly equal; and there is some woodland. This latter is chiefly about the ancient forest of Leafield, on the western border of the county. The waste land is not extensive; Empinghom-heath, in the eastern part of the county, being the most extensive waste in Rutlandshire. The soil is very various. There is much good red soil, some good clay, some bad clay, and some white stoney soil. The vale of Catmose, a district lying to the west of Oakham, is reckoned as good as any land in the county. The husbandry is not of the best; the old system of two crops and a fallow being still the usual method of cultivation. X Cattle are but little bred in the county, COTTESMORE, 4 miles N.N.E. from women. ASHWELL, 3 miles N. from Oakham. AYSTON, 1 mile N.W. from Uppingham. BARLEYTHORPE.-SeeOakham-Deans- BARROW, in Cottesmore parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant N. Popula. 131. EMPINGHAM, 6 miles W.N.W. from ESSENDINE, 4 miles N.N.E. from Stam- EXTON, 5 miles N.E. from Oakham. GLASTON, 2 miles E.N.E. from Upping- GREETHAM, 54 miles N.E. from Oakham. Popula. 541. BARROWDEN, 6 miles E. from Upping- GUNTHORPE, in Belton parish, and po ham. Popula. 524. BELTON, 4 miles W. from Uppingham. BISBROOKE, 13 mile E. from Upping- BRAUNSTON, 24 miles S.W. from Oak- pula. included therein. 1 mile S. HAMBLETON, 3 miles E.S.E. from HORN, 6 miles N.W. from Stamford. See Oakham-Lords. hold. 4 miles distant S.W. LIDDINGTON, 3 miles S. from Uppingham. Popula. 594. BURLEY, 24 miles N.N.E. from Oakham. LUFFENHAM (North), 5 miles N.E. Popula. 222. from Uppingham. Popula. 421. CALDECOTT, 5 miles S. from Upping- LUFFENHAM (South), 54 miles E.N.E. ham. Popula. 274. from Uppingham. Popula. 274. CASTERTON (Great), 2 miles N.W. from LYNDON, 44 miles N.E. from Upping- CASTERTON (Little), 1 mile N. from MANTON, 24 miles S. from Oakham. CLIPSHAM, 7 miles N.N.W from Stam- MARKET-OVERTON, 53 miles N.N.E. from Oakham. Popula. 468. ford. Popula. 221. MARTINSTHORPE, 2 miles S. from SEATON, 3 miles S.E. from Uppingham. MORCOTT, 44 miles E.N.E. from Upping- STOKE (Dry), 3 miles S.W. from Up- ford. Popula. 195. pula. 178. THISTLETON, 74 miles N.E. from Oakham. Popula. 181. THORPE (by Water), in Seaton parish, and popula. included therein. 14 mile distant S. OAKHAM-DEANSHOLD with BAR-TEIGII, 54 miles N. from Oakham. PoLEYTHORPE, mile N. from Oakham-Lordshold. Popula. 796. OAKHAM-LORDSHOLD with LEIGHFIELDS, 96 miles N.N.W. from London. Popula. 1,364. Market, Sat.; fairs, May 15, horned cattle and sheep; second Sat. in April, cattle; May 9, ditto, and a show of stone-horses Sat. in Whitsun-week, Sat. after Oct: 10, Nov. 19, Dec. 15, cattle and sheep; Sept. 9, ditto and swine. Here there was a College for poor people, built in the year 1398, by William Dalby of Exton; yearly value 26l. 13s. 4d., now worth 5331. 6s. 8d.; granted, 26 Hen. VIII., to Richard Flower, of Whit-UPPINGHAM, 90 miles N.N.E. from well. PICK WORTH, 6 miles N.N.W. from TICKENCOTE, 3 miles N.W. from Stam- TINWELL with INGTHORP, 2 miles TIXOVER, 8 miles E. from Uppingham. London. Popula. 1,630. Market, Wed.; fairs, March 7, July 7, horses, horned cattle, and coarse linen. PILTON, 5 miles N.E. from Uppingham. WARDLEY, 3 miles W.S.W. from UpPopula. 66. pingham. Popula. 52. PRESTON, 2 miles N. from Uppingham. WHISSENDINE, 5 miles N.W. from RIDLINGTON, 3 miles N.W. from Up. WHITWELL, 4 miles E. from Oakham. pingham. Popula. 247. RYALL with BELMISTHORPE, 24 miles N.N.E. from Stamford. Popula. 439. Popula. 112. WING, 4 miles N.E. from Uppingham. SHROPSHIRE. AN INLAND COUNTY, bounded on the North by Denbighshire, a detached part of Flintshire and Cheshire; on the East by Staffordshire; on the South by Worcestershire and Herefordshire; and on the West by Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire, and Denbighshire. It is about 44 miles long, and 28 broad. It is divided into 15 divisions; Bradford (North), Bradford (South), Brimstrey, Chirbury, Condover, Ford, Munslow, Oswestry, Overs, Pimhill, Purslow, Stokesden, Bridgenorth, Shrewsbury, and Wenlock. The principal RIVERS of this county are, the Severn, the Camlet, the Teine, and the Clunn. The MARKET-TOWNS are, Bishop's-Castle, Bridgenorth, Broseley, Church-Stretton, Drayton, Ellesmere, Ludlow, Madeley, Newport, Oswestry, Shiffnall, Shrewsbury, Wellington, Wem, Wenlock, Whitchurch. It sends 12 members to parliament; two for the shire, and two for each of the boroughs of Shrewsbury, Ludlow, Bishop's-Castle, Wenlock, and Bridgenorth. It is in the PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY, partly in the DIOCESE OF HEREFORD, and partly in that of LITCHFIELD AND COVENTRY, and it is in the OXFORD CIRCUIT. This county contains 1341 square miles, or 856,240 acres; and 216 parishes. It had 31 monastic establishments, and 42 public charities; it has 10 parishes with no church, 26 parishes with less than 100 inhabitants; 53 parishes with no parsonage-houses; 38 parishes with parsonage-houses unfit to dwell in; the POOR-RATES were, in 1818, 139,060l. 13s. 94d.; the number of paupers 19,887; the rental of the county, according to a return laid before parliament in 1818, was 1,037,988l. 6s. 2d.; the population, according to a return madeto parliament in 1821, was 206,153; the number of inhabited houses, in 1821, was 38,663; the number of uninhabited houses at the same epoch, 1,102; the poor-rates bear the proportion of one-seventh of the rental; the number of paupers, compared with the number of houses, is one to every two; the poor-rates in 1776, were 21,549.; the number of persons to every square mile of this county, is 153; the number of acres to a person, 4; the number of acres to a house, 21; the male population in 1821, was 102,056; the families employed in agriculture were 18,414 in number; the families employed in handicraft were 17,485 in number; the number of other families was 5,737. The agricultural male population 45,135; able labourers 22,567; the number of acres in this county to every able-bodied labourer is 37. Shropshire is a county of uneven surface, but it is not mountainous. The most hilly is the eastern side of it. The soil is various. There are many commons and moors, but all of them are of small dimensions, the largest being near Bridgenorth, called the Morf. There is a great deal of valuable coppice-wood, chiefly of oak. The soil is of a deep loam about Oswes: try. In the northern parts of the county generally, it is a good loam lying over a strata of coal and limestone; on the south-east it is sandy; about Wenlock and the heart of the county there is much pale-coloured clay; about Ludlow is some red loam mixed with a red clay, and, to the north-west of Ludlow, between that and Bishop's-Castle, is a good deal of slate and building-stone. The usual crops in this county are wheat, barley, oats, peas, and turnips. There are other green crops besides turnips grown, some cabbages, and, in many places, a good many potatoes. Hops also are grown in the neighbourhood of Ludlow, but not in great quantity. Pasturage is not found much, excepting in the district between Bishop's-Castle and Ludlow, and by the sides of rivers. In cattle the county of Salop does not excel. It has no distinct breed of its own of any sort. The neat cattle of the northern parts of it are something of the long-horned Lancashire breed, kept for the dairies, to supply the manufacturing towns with milk and butter; but about Drayton and Whitchurch, the dairies are large, and chiefly for cheese. The sheep are very various in their breed. Most farmers keep flocks; but especi ally those who live near to commons, where they can send them. The manufactures of Shropshire are flannels and Welsh webs, at Shrewsbury and other towns; garden pots, and other coarse earthen-ware, and tobacco-pipes, at Broseley; china-ware at Caughley, and cotton-weaving at Coleham; besides some other inferior manufactures at other places. There are coal, iron, and lead mines in this county; the first run almost from one end to the other of the western border of it, and the others are at Colebrook-Dale, on the Severn, 4 short distance from Shrewsbury. ABBERBURY or ALBERBURY, & miles W. from Shrewsbury. Popula. 1,946. ABDON, 8 miles N.E. from Ludlow. Popula. 157. ACTON-BURNELL, 7 miles N.E. from Church-Stretton. Popula. 305. ACTON-SCOTT, 3 miles S. from ChurchStretton. Popula. 187. ACTON, in North-Lydbury parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles distant S.W. ACTON-ROUND, 54 miles N.W. from Bridgenorth. Popula. 214. ACTON-REYNOLD, in Shawbury parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant N.W. ADDERLEY, 3 miles N. from Drayton. Popula. 378. ALBRIGHTON, 5 miles S.E. from Shiffnall. Popula. 968. Fairs, May 23, July 18, Nov. 9, horned cattle, sheep, and swine. |