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STAFFORD (West), 9 miles S.E. from SWYRE, 3 miles N.W. from Abbotsbury. Dorchester, Popula. 184.

STEEPLE, 3 miles W. from Corfe-Castle.
Popula. 233.

STEPLETON-PRESTON (Extra Par.),
2 miles N. from Blandford-Forum. Po-
pula. 23.

Popula. 210.

SYDLING (St. Nicholas), 2 miles S.E. from Cerne-Abbas. Popula. 563. Fair, Dec, 6, all sorts of cattle.

SYMONDSBURY, 1 mile W. from Bridport. Popula. 1,076.

STINSFORD, 1 mile N.E. from Dor- TARRANT-CRAWFORD with PRES

chester. Popula. 337.

STOBOROUGH, forming part of the borough of Wareham, and the popula. returned with it. See Wareham, STOCK-GAYLAND,

3 miles S. from Stalbridge. Popula. 63, STOCKLAND, 12 miles N.E. from LymeRegis. Popula. 1,147. Fair, June 12, for cattle. STOCKWOOD, near Melcombe-Regis, and 125 miles from London. Popula. 33. STOKE-ABBAS, 1 mile S.W. from Beaminster. Popula. 615.

TON, 3 miles N.E. from BlandfordForum. Popula. 76. Here there was a Cistercian Nunnery, founded, in the year 1230, by Richard Power, Bishop of Chichester; valued, at the dissolution, at 239l. 11s. 10d., now worth 4,691l. 16s. 8d.; granted, 33 Hen. VIII., to Sir Thomas Wyat.

TARRANT-GUNVILLE, 6 miles W. from Cranborne. Popula. 487. TARRANT-HINTON, 4 miles N.E, from Blandford-Forum. Popula. 278. TARRANT-KEYNSTON, 2 miles S.E. from Blandford-Forum. Popula. 220.

STOKE-EAST, 3 miles W, from Ware- TARRANT-LAUNCESTON, 4 miles from ham. Popula. 519. Blandford-Forum. Popula. 83. STOKE-WAKE, 7 miles N.W. from Bland- TARRANT-MONCKTON, 4 miles N.E. ford-Forum. Popula. 139. from Blandford-Forum. Popula. 236.

STOWER (East), 4 miles W. from Shaftes- TARRANT-RANSTON, 4 miles from bury. Popula. 476. Blandford-Forum. Popula. 58.

STOWER (West), 5 miles W, from Shaftes- TARRANT-RUSHTON, 3 miles N.W. bury. Popula. 205. from Wimborne. Popula. 206. STOWER-PROVOST, 4 miles S.W. from THOMSON, 2 miles E. from Bere- Regis. Shaftesbury. Popula. 800.

Popula. 43.

borne. Popula. 329.

STOURPAIN, 2 miles N.W. from Bland- THORNFORD, 3 miles S.W. from Sherford-Forum. Popula. 499. STRATTON with GRIMSTONE, 3 miles

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THORNHILL, in Stalbridge parish, and popula. included therein.

TINCLETON, 4 miles E. from Dorchester.
Popula. 142.

TODBER, 2 miles N. from Sturminster,
Popula. 127.

TOLPUDDLE, 2 miles S.W. from Bere-
Regis. Popula. 351,
TOLLER-PORCORUM, 6 miles W. from
Cerne-Abbas. Popula. 418.
TOLLER-FRATRUM, 6 miles W. from
Cerne-Abbas. Popula. 37. Fairs, May
29 and 30, July 2, Sept. 11 and 12, for
bullocks, sheep, horses, lambs, and
toys. Held at Toller-Down,

SUTTON WALDRON, 4 miles S. from TURNERS-PIDDLE, 3 miles S, from

Shaftesbury. Popula, 206.

Bere-Regis, Popula. 98.

SWANAGE, 3 miles S.E. from Corfe- TURNWORTH, 2 miles W. from Bland

Castle. Popula, 1,607,

ford-Forum. Popula. 72.

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UPWAY, 4 miles S. from Dorchester.
Popula. 485,

VALE, in Whitechurch-Canonicorum pa-
rish, and popula, included therein.
WALLDITCH, 1 mile E. from Bridport.
Popula. 141.

Fri.; fairs, April 5, Sept. 14, every other Mon., bullocks and cheese, Here was a nunnery, founded, in the year 705, by St. Cuthburga, daughter of Kenred, king of the West Saxons, where several of the Saxon kings were buried; valuation, at the dissolution, 131. 14s., now worth 2,6341.; granted, 1 Edw. VI., to Edward Duke of Somerset, then to Giles Keylway and William Leonard, but finally to Edward Lord Clinton.

WAMBROOK, 2 miles W. from Chard, WIMBORNE (St.-Giles and All-Hallows),

100 miles S.W. from London. Popula.

384.

WINFORD-EAGLE, 8 miles N.W. from
Dorchester. Popula. 152. Fair, Aug.
21, for toys only.
WINFRITH-NEWBURGH, 7 miles W.
from Wareham. Popula. 764.
WINSOR (Little), in Broad-Winsor pa-
rish, and popula. included therein.
WINTERBORNE-ABBAS, 3 miles W.
from Dorchester. Popula. 170.
WINTERBORNE-CAME, 2 miles N.
from Dorchester. Popula. 54.

Somerset. Popula. 201. WAREHAM, 110 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 1,931. Its parishes are, HolyTrinity, Lady-St.-Mary, and St.-Martin's, and Stoborough liberty forms part of the borough. Market, Sat.; fairs, April 17, July 5, Sept. 11, hogs and cheese. A corporate town, having a mayor, recorder, six capital burgesses, and twelve assistants. Sends two members to parliament: right of election is in the mayor and magistrates, and in all those who pay scot and lot: number of voters, 120 nominally, actually but 1. Here there was an Alien Priory, bestowed, in the reign of Hen. I., on the WINTERBORNE-CLENSTONE, 3 miles Convent of Lira, in Normandy, by Robert Earl of Leicester; granted to Thomas Reve and George Cotton. WARMWELL, 5 miles N.E, from Melcombe-Regis. Popula. 82. WEST-MILTON, in Poorstock parish,

and popula. included therein.
WESTON, in Stalbridge parish, and po-
pula. included therein.
WEYMOUTH and MELCOMBE-REGIS,

127 miles S.W. from London. Popula.
6,622. Are united corporate towns,
having a mayor, recorder, two bailiffs,
and several aldermen. They send four
members to parliament: right of elec-
tion in the mayor, aldermen, and capital
burgesses inhabiting the borough, and
of persons seized of freeholds within it,
and not receiving alms: number of vo
ters, from 200 to 2000,

WHITECHURCH - CANONICORUM, 4
miles N.W. from Bridport. Popula.

1,317.

WHITCOMBE, 3 miles S. from Dorchester. Popula. 54.

WILD, in Whitchurch-Canonicorum parish, and popula. included therein. WIMBORNE-MINSTER, 101 miles S.W. from London. Popula, 3,563. Market,

S.W. from Blandford-Forum. Popula.

73.

WINTERBORNE - FARRINGDON, in
West-Chickerell parish, and popula.
included therein. 34 miles from Stour-
minster.

WINTERBORNE KINGSTON, 2 miles
N.W. from Bere-Regis. Popula. 464.
WINTERBORNE-ST.-MARTIN, 3 miles
S.W. from Dorchester, Popula, 342.
WINTERBORNE-MONKTON, 3 miles
S.W. from Dorchester. Popula. 77.
WINTERBORNE-STEPLETON, 2 miles
S.W. from Dorchester. Popula. 151.
WINTERBORNE-WHITECHURCH, 5
miles S.E. from Blandford-Forum. Po-
pula. 493,

WINTERBORNE - LESTONE, 3 miles
from Bere-Regis. Popula. 245.
WITCHAMPTON, 3 miles N, from Wim-
borne. Popula. 442.
WOODLANDS, 3 miles S. from Cran-
borne. Popula. 395. Fair, July 5,
horses, cheese, and toys.

WOODSFORD, 4 miles E. from Dorches
ter. Popula. 159.

WOODYATES (East and West, Extra Par.), 4 miles from Cranborne, Popula. 9.

WOOL, 4 miles S.W. from Wareham. WORGRET, in East-Stoke parish, and

Popula. 453.

WOOLLAND, 6 miles W. from Blandford

Forum. Popula. 135.

WOOTTON-GLANVILLE, 4 miles N. from Cerne-Abbas. Popula. 309, WOOTTON-FITZPAIN, 6 miles N.W. from Bridport. Popula. 446. WOOTTON-NEWLAND, in WoottonGlanville parish, and popula. included therein.

WORTH-MATRAVERS, 2 miles S. from Corfe-Castle. Popula. 325.

popula. included therein.

WRAXALL, 5 miles W. from Cerne-Abbas. Popula. 62.

WYKE-REGIS, 1 mile W. from Weymouth. Popula. 914.

WYLDECOURT, in Hawkchurch parish, and popula. included therein. YETMINSTER, 5 miles S.W. from Sherborne. Popula. 1,125. Fairs, April 23, Oct. 1.

DURHAM.

BOUNDED, on the North, by Northumberland; on the East, by the German Ocean; on the South, by the river Tees, which divides it from Yorkshire; and on the West, by Cumberland and Westmorland. It is 35 miles long, and 34 miles broad. Its principal RIVERS are, the Tees, the Wear, and the Tyne. It is divided into four wards; Chester, Darlington, Easington, and Stockton; with the two districts of Norhamshire and Islandshire. There are 11 market-towns; namely, Durham, Darlington, Gateshead, Stockton, Sunderland, Hartlepool, Bishop Auckland, Barnard - Castle, Sedgefield, Wolsingham, and Yarm. The county sends 2 members to parliament, and the city sends 2. It is in the PROVINCE OF YORK, in the DIOCESE OF DURHAM, and in the NORTHERN CIRCUIT. It contains 1,061 square miles, or 679,040 acres; and 75 parishes. It had 14 monastic establishments, and 22 public charities; it has 1 parish with no church, 4 parishes containing less than a hundred people; 23 parishes with no parsonagehouse 17 parishes in which the parsonage-house is unfit to live in. The POOR-RATES of the county are 105,9971. 11s. 3d., the number of PAUPERS is 13,628; the rental is 791,359l. 78. 9d. ; the population in 1821 was 207,673; the number of houses is 32,793; the rates, compared with the rental, is one-seventh; the paupers, compared with the number of houses, is 1 to every 3 houses; the poor-rates, in 1776, were 14,0571.;

the number of persons to a mile in 'this county is 195; the number of acres to a person, 3; the number of acres to a house, 30; the male population, 99,100; the number of families employed in agriculture, 9,427; the number of families employed in handicraft, 20,212; number of other families, 16,301; the number of the agricultural male population, 20,335; the number of able labourers, 10,167; and the number of acres of land to each able labourer, is 61. Durham is in general hilly, but particularly the Western angle of it, which comprises a range of barren, bleak hills, called the English Apennines. The rest of the county, though hilly, has immense numbers of beautiful and fertile vallies in every direction. The soil is generally of a clayey nature, or that and gravel. It is but little wooded except where gentlemen have planted for ornament. The natural productions of the county are, coals, lead, and iron. The East and North-East parts of the county have been long famous for their immense produce of coals, which, in a very great measure, supply London, besides all the supply afforded to the county of Durham itself. The lead and ironmines are about Teesdale, and Weardale. In agriculture, the Eastern part of the county affords abundance of the common crops of corn; and, towards the West, is that grazing country which produces the large and fine Tees-water breed of sheep, and the famous Dur.

ham oxen, of which we see now-and- BARNARD-CASTLE, in Gainsford parish, then the astonishing specimens in Lon- and popula. included therein. Ôn the don. These animals are famous as well banks of the river Tees, 2464 miles N. for their propensity to give milk as to from London. Market, Wed.; fairs, become fat, and they are therefore great- Easter-Wed., Wed. in Whitsun-week, ly esteemed by the milk-men of London. St.James'day, July 25, for horned cattle, Durham has been from time immemorial horses, and sheep. a county palatine belonging to the bishop of the see. Blackstone and other law writers say that it was so before the time of William the Conqueror; for

no charter can be found of its creation. It exercised all the liberties of a palatinate until the making of the Act 27 Hen. VIII., which abridged some of the liberties of the counties palatine; but it still enjoys the greater part: the act only taking away the power to pardon criminals, that of appointing justices in Eyre, of assize and of the peace; and that of issuing writs in any but the king's name. The bishop still sits as a judge of assize if he like; he has still his chancellor, his fines and forfeitures, his right of granting charters or fairs or markets, his right of the custody of idiots and lunatics, besides a very-littlelimited admiralty jurisdiction with its revenues of forfeitures, wrecks, duties on ships coming into ports, anchorage, wharfage, beaconage, moorage, butterage, ulnage, &c..

ANCROFT, 4 miles S. from Berwick. Popula. 1,378.

AISLABY, in Eaglescliff parish, and popula. included therein. 44 miles S.W. from Stockton. ARCHDEACON-NEWTON, in Darlington parish, and popula. included therein. AUCKLAND-ST.-ANDREW, 1 mile S. from Bishop-Auckland. Popula. 8,223. AUCKLAND - BISHOP.-See. BishopAuckland.

AUCKLAND-ST.-HELEN'S, in St. Andrews-Auckland parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles S.W. from Bishop-Auckland.

AUCKLAND (West), in St. AndrewsAuckland parish, and popula. included therein. miles distant from BishopAuckland to the South.

AYCLIFFE, 5 miles N.W. from Darlington. Popula. 1,379.

BARMPTON, in Houghton-le-Skerne parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles N.E. from Darlington. BARMSTON, in Washington parish, and popula. included therein. 10 miles N.E. from Durham.

BARONY, in St. Andrews-Auckland parish, and popula. included there'n. BEAMISH, in Chester-le-Street parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles N. from Durham.

BEDBURN (North), in St. Andrews

Auckland parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles from Bishop-Auckland. BEDBURN (South), in St. AndrewsAuckland parish, and popula. included

therein.

BEDLINGTON, 5 miles from Durham. Popula. 1,862.

BENFIELD-SIDE, in Lanchester parish, and popula. included therein. On the borders of Northumberland, 12 miles from Durham.

BIDDICK (South), in Houghton-le-Spring parish, and popula. included therein. 8 miles from Durham.

BILLINGHAM, 24 miles N.E. from Stockton. Popula. 1,154.

BILLINGSIDE, in Lanchester parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles from Durham.

BILLY-ROW, in Brancepeth parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles from Bishop-Auckland.

BINCHESTER, in St.-Andrews-Auckland parish, and popula. included therein. Near the river Wear, 3 miles from Bishop-Auckland.

BIRTLEY, in Chester-le-Street parish, and popula. included therein. 9 miles N. from Durham. BISHOP-AUCKLAND, in St.-AndrewsAuckland parish, and popula. included therein. 12 miles S.W. from Durham, and 249 from London. Market, Thurs.; fairs, Ascension-day and Thurs. before Oct. 10. Here there was a College, founded and well endowed by Anthony Beck, Bishop of Durham; yearly value 180l. 3s. 2d., now worth 3,603l. 3s. 4d. BISHOPS-MIDDLEHAM, 2 miles N.W. from Sedgefield. Popula. 827. BISHOPWEARMOUTH, 1 mile W. from Sunderland. Popula. 11,542. BISHOPWEARMOUTH-PANS, in the above parish, and popula. included therein.

BISHOPTON, 4 miles S. from Sedgefield. | CASTLE-EDEN, 7 miles E. from Durham.

Popula. 453.

BLACKWELL, in Darlington parish, and popula. included therein. Situate on the river Tees, 1 mile N.E. from Darlington.

BOLAM, in Gainsford parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles from BarnardCastle.

BOLDON, 4 miles S.E. from Gateshead.

Popula. 733.

BOURN-MOOR, in Houghton-le-Spring parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles from Darlington.

Popula. 281.

CHAMBOIS, in Bedlington parish, and popula. included therein. CHESTER-LE-STREET, 6 miles N. from

Durham. Popula. 13,936. Here was a College, founded in the year 883, by Bishop Eardulfus, who had been forced to flee hither with the body of St. Cuthbert from Lindisfarne. The seven Prebends here were valued, 26 Hen. VIII., at 771. 12s. 8d., now worth 1,552l. 13s. 4d. CHILTON, in Merrington parish, and popula. included therein. 8 miles from Durham.

BRADBURY, in Sedgefield parish, and CHOPPINGTON, in Bedlington parish, popula. included therein. 10 miles from Durham.

BRAFFERTON, in Great Aycliff parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles from Darlington.

and popula. included therein. 3 miles E. from Morpeth.

CHOPWELL, in Ryton parish, and popula. included therein. 11 miles from Durham.

BRANCEPETH, 3 miles S.W. from Dur- CLAXTON, in Greatham parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles from Stockton.

ham. Popula. 1,905.

BRANDON, in Brancepeth parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles from

Durham.

CLEADON, in Whitburn parish, and popula. included therein.

BRIERTON, in Stanton parish, and po- CLEATHAM, in Gainsford parish, and

pula. included therein.

BROOM, in St. Oswald parish, Durham, and popula. included therein. 1 mile from Durham.

BURDON (Great), in Houghton-le-Skerne parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles from Darlington. BURDON, in Bishopwearmouth parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles from Sunderland.

popula. included therein. 8 miles from Barnard-Castle.

COASTAMOOR, in Heighington parish, and popula. included therein. COATHAM-MUNDEVILLE, in Hough

ton-le-Skerne parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles from Darlington.

COCKEN, in Houghton-le-Spring parish, and popula. included therein. Near the river Wear, 5 miles from Durham.

BURNOP, in Lanchester parish, and po- COCKERTON, in Darlington parish, and pula. included therein.

BUTSFIELD, in Lanchester parish, and

popula. included therein.

BUTTERWICK, in Sedgefield parish, and popula. included therein. 10 miles from Stockton.

popula. included therein. 1 mile N.W. from Darlington.

COCKFIELD, 4 miles N.E. from BarnardCastle. Popula. 533.

COLD - HESELDON.-See HeseldonCold.

BYERS-GREEN, in Auckland parish, and CONISCLIFFE (High), 3 miles N.W. popula. included therein.

BYSHOTTLES, in Brancepeth parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles from Durham.

from Darlington. Popula. 391. CONISCLIFFE (Low), in the parish of the above, and adjoining thereto, and popula. included with it.

CARLETON, in Red-Marshall parish, and CONSIDE, in Lanchester parish, and

popula. included therein.

CASSOP, in Kelloe parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles from Durham.

popula. included therein.

CORNFORTH, in Bishop-Middleham parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles S. from Durham.

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