Easter week, and first Tues. after Sept. 29, for cattle.

Wadley.

SPEEN, 1 mile N.W. from Newbury. Popula. 2,392. SPEENHAMLAND, in the parish of Speen, and adjoining Newbury. Popula. included in Speen. STANFORD-IN-THE-VALE, 24 miles S.E. from Farringdon. Popula. 931. STANFORD-DINGLEY, 6 miles N.E. from Newbury. Popula. 135.

TIDMARSH, 4 miles N.W. from Reading. Popula. 139.

TILEHURST, 1 mile W. from Reading. Popula. 1,760.

TOUCHEN, in the parish of Bray. Popula. included therein.

TUBNEY, 2 miles W. from Abingdon. Popula. 138.

UFFINGTON, 3 miles N.W. from Wantage. Popula. 925.

tage. Popula. 652. Here was an alien Priory of Monks, founded by the Abbey of Bec, in Normandy, prior to the reign of Hen. I. STRATHFIELD-MORTIMER, 6 miles S.W. from Reading. Popula. 752. STRATHFIELD-SAY, 6 miles N. from Reading. Popula. 769. Here was a Priory of Alien Benedictine Monks, founded in the year 1170, by Nicholas de Stoteville.

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STREATLEY, 4 miles S. from Wallingford. Popula. 590.

STROUD, in the parish of Cumner. Popula. included therein.

SULHAM, 4 miles S.W. from Reading. Popula. 152.

SULHAMPSTEAD-ABBOTTS, 4 miles S.W. from Reading. Popula. 364. SULHAMPSTEAD-BANISTER, 4 miles S.W. from Reading. Popula. 315. SUNNINGHILL, 7 miles N. from Oakingham. Popula. 1,125.

SUNNINGWELL, 2 miles N. from Abingdon. Popula. 277.

SUTTON-COURTNEY, 2 miles S. from
Abingdon. Popula. 1,147.
SUTTON-WICH, in the above parish, 2

miles S. by W. from Abingdon. Popula. included in Sutton-Courtney. SWALLOWFIELD, 5 miles S. from Reading. Popula. 983. Fair, June 9. SWINFORD, in the parish of Cumner.

Popula. included therein.

THATCHAM, 2 miles E. from Newbury. Popula. 3,677. Fairs, second Tues. after

pula. 350.

UPTON and Nottingham-Fee, in the

parish of Blewberry. Popula. returned' with Blewberry.

WALTHAM (St. Lawrence), 4 miles N. from Oakingham. Popula. 638. Fair, April 10, horses and cattle.

WALLINGFORD, seated on the Thames, in the hundred of Moreton, 45 miles W. from London, and 15 miles N.W. from Reading. It is a very ancient town, which had, at one time, twelve churches, which has now four parishes; All-hallows, St. Leonard, St. Mary-the-More, and St. Peter, but has only one church now in use. It has also a castle, extraparochial. One of the parishes is a sinecure, the income of which goes to Pembroke College, Oxford. There were here a Benedictine cell, founded in the reign of William the Conqueror, by Gilfred, Abbot of St. Alban; granted 38 Hen. VIII. to John Norres: also, a College, endowed before or during the reign of King John, by Edmond, Earl of Cornwall; yearly revenue 1471.8s. 04d. now worth 2,8481. Os. 10d.; granted, 2 Edw. VI., to Michael Stanhope and John Bellew. This is a corporate town, having a mayor, recorder, two bailiffs, six aldermen, and eighteen burgesses as assistants. It is also a borough, sending two members to parliament, the right of voting is in the inhabitants paying scot and lot; but it has, in fact,

only about 140 voters, who dispose of their votes in a manner, and for consideration, such as it is unnecessary to describe, it being as "notorious as the sun at noon-day." Market, Tues. and Fri.; fairs, Tues. before Easter; June 24 for horses, Sept. 29 for hiring servants, Dec. 17 for fat hogs. Popula. 2,093.

WANTAGE, seated on a branch of the Ock, in the hundred of Wantage, 59 miles W. from London, and 21 N.W. from Reading. Market, Satur. Fairs, first Satur. in March for horses, cows, pigs, and cattle; first Satur. in May, same; July 18 same and cherries; Oct. 10 and 17 horses, cows, pigs, cheese, hops, and hiring servants. This town has the high honour of having been the birth-place of ALFRED the Great. Popula. 3,256.

WARFIELD, 4 miles N.E. from Oaking

ham. Popula. 1,155.

WARGRAVE, 5 miles N. from Oakingham. Popula. 1,409.

William the Conqueror, and also a most magnificent Collegiate Church, usually called St. George's Chapel. The vaults of this church have been the burialplace of the royal family from Hen. VIII. downwards; and the castle has generally been a place of residence for all the kings successively. It is a corporate and borough town, having a mayor, two bailiffs, and twenty-eight burgesses. The right of election is in the inha bitants paying scot and lot; and the number of voters about 300. It consists of two parishes, one called Old and the other New Windsor, besides the Castle and the Lower Court. Market on Satur.; fairs, Easter-Tues, for horses and cattle, July 5 for horses, cattle, sheep, and wool, Oct. 24 for horses and cattle. Popula. 5,698. WINKFIELD with Ascot,

miles S.W.

from Windsor. Popula. 1,676. WINNERSH, in Hurst parish, and popula. included therein, 4 miles from Oakingham.

WATCHFIELD, in Shrivenham parish,
and popula. included therein, 4 miles
S.W. from Farringdon.
WATER-OAKLEY, in the parish of Bray.
Popula. included therein.
WELFORD, 5 miles N.W. from Newbury.
Popula. 1,058.

WESTBROOK.-See Boxford.
WEST GINGE.-See Betterton.
WHATCOMBE.-See Fawley.
WHITE-WALTHAM, 3 miles S.W. from

Maidenhead. Popula. 795. WHISTLEY-HURST, in the parish of Hurst, 5 miles E. by N. from Reading. Popula. included with Hurst.

WHITLEY, in the parish of Cumner. Popula. included therein. WHITLEY, in St. Giles parish, Reading, 1 mile from Reading, and popula. included therein.

WINDSOR, seated on the Thames, in the hundred of Ripplesmere, 23 miles W. from London, and 15 E. from Reading. Here is a magnificent castle, first built by

ley, Smiles N.N.W. from Newbury. Popula. returned with Chieveley. WITTENHAM (Little), 4 miles S.E. from Abingdon. Popula. 107. WITTENHAM (Long), 5 miles S.E. from

Abingdon. Popula. 496. WOKEFIELD, in Strathfield-Mortimer parish, and popula. returned therein. WOLSTONE, in Uffington parish, and popula. included therein, 44 miles from Wantage.

WOODHAY (West), 5 miles from Hungerford. Popula. 144.

WOODSPEEN and BAGNOR, in the pa-
rish of Speen, 2 miles from Newbury.
Popula. included in Speen.
WOOLEY.-See Chaddleworth.
WOOLHAMPTON, 8 miles S.W. from
Reading. Popula. 387.
WOOTTON, in the parish of Cumner. Po-
pula. included therein.

WYNTHAM, 7 miles N. from Abingdon.
Popula. 241.

YATTENDON, 6 miles N.E. from Newbury. Popula. 230. Fair, Oct. 13.

AN INLAND COUNTY of England. It is bounded on the north by Northamptonshire; on the East by Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Middlesex; on the South by Berkshire, and on the West by Oxfordshire. Its shape is oblong, being about fifty miles in length and sixteen in breadth. It has eight hundreds; namely, Ashendon, Aylesbury, Buckingham, Burnham, Cottesloe, Desborough, Newport, and Stoke. Its principal RIVERS are, the Thames, the Ouse, and the Colne. It is divided from Berkshire by the Thames. It has fifteen MARKET TOWNS; namely, Buckingham and Aylesbury, which share between them the honour belonging to the county town; Amersham, Beaconsfield, Chesham, Colnbrook, Ivinghoe, Newport-Pagnell, Olney, Risborough, Stoney-Stratford, Wendover, Wycombe, Winslow, Great Marlow. This county sends two members to parliament, and two members are also sent from each of the following boroughs of this county; Buckingham, Aylesbury, ChippingWycombe, Wendover, Great Marlow, Agmondesham, or Amersham, making the whole number of members for the county, twelve. It is in the PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY, principally in the DIOCESE OF LINCOLN, but is partly in those of Canterbury and London, and it is in the NORFOLK CIRCUIT. It contains 740 square miles, or 473,600 acres, and 202 parishes. It had 27 public charities; it has now 1 parish with no church, 17 parishes, with less than 100 inhabitants in each, and 23 parishes without parsonage houses, besides 28 parishes in which the parsonage houses are reported by the incumbents to be unfit for them to reside in. poor-rates of this county, according to a return laid before Parliament in 1818, were 165,321l. 15s. 114d.; the number of paupers, 14,934; the rental of the county, 644,129l. 12s. 11d. The population, according to a return made to parliament in 1821, is 134,068; the number of inhabited houses in the county, 24,876; of uninhabited houses, 549; the poor-rates bear towards the rental of the county the proportion of one quarter; the number of paupers, compared with the number of houses, is

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one to every two houses; the poorrates of the county in 1776 were 31,130l.; the number of persons to every square mile of this county is 181; the number of acres to a person, 3; the number of acres to every house, 15. In the year 1821 the male population was 64,867; the number of families employed in agriculture, 16,640; the number of families employed in handicraft, 8,318; the number of other families, 3,909; the number of agricultural males, 37,391; the number of able labourers, 18,695; the number of acres of land in the whole county to every able labourer, 34. The southern part of the county is principally taken up with what are called the Chiltern Hills, which are composed of chalk, covered, in many places, with beech woods. According to ancient historians, this district was almost all forest. It is calculated that, even now, the South-western part of the county is occupied to the extent of full one-sixth with beech woods. The Chiltern Hills stretch across from Bedfordshire to Oxfordshire, entering Buckinghamshire a little distance above Tring in Hertfordshire, and taking a sweep round by Prince's-Risborough to Chipping-Wycombe, and then into Oxfordshire. This rich vale of Aylesbury lies under these hills, and is composed, for the greater part, of a rich, deep loam, exceeded by no district in England for its fertility. The northern part of the county is of a more mixed character: there is much good land in it, and a good deal of clay; but it partakes, in many places, of the sandy nature of the adjoining part of the county of Bedford. There is not much waste land in Buckinghamshire: Wickham Heath, of about 1500 acres, Iver Heath, about 1150 acres, and Stoke Heath, about 1600 acres, are the three most considerable wastes. The agriculture of the hills is wheat, barley, and oats; that of the vale of Aylesbury, grazing, with corncrops, and that of the northern part of the county, grazing, corn-growing, and woodland. The cattle of this county are not peculiar to it; the horses are black, and of the half-cart, half-coach breed; the neat cattle that are fatted here are brought out of Lincolnshire,