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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CHICHESTER	Sussex	end of the 14th century; still contains an ancient lavatory and reader's pulpit; and is now used as a schoolroom. The grammar school was founded in 1497, by Bishop Story, for the education of the sons of freemen of the city; and numbers among its pupils Archbishop Juxon, who was a native, the poet Collins	Imperial
  CLONAKILTY, or CLOUGHNAKILTY	Cork	end, and was rebuilt in 1818, at an expense of £1300, of which £500 was a loan from the late Board of First Fruits, and the remainder was contributed by the Earl of Shannon and the Rev. H. Townsend. In the R. C. divisions this place gives name to a union or district, comprising the parishes of Kilgarriffe, Kilnagross, Templeomalus, Carrigrohanemore, Desart, Templebryan, and parts of the parishes of Kilkerranmore and Inchidony: the chapel is a spacious building, and there is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A classical school was established in 1808, under the patronage	Lewis:Ireland
  Collins End	Oxfordshire	Collins End , hamlet, Oxford, 5 m. NW. of Reading.	Bartholomew
  COLLINS-END	Oxfordshire	COLLINS-END , a hamlet in the south-east of Oxford; under the Chilterns, near the Thames, 5 miles NW by W of Reading	Imperial
  CORK	Cork	Collins, priest of the. parish, who contributed liberally towards the erection of the building, and also to its support. The Lancasterian school, at the end	Lewis:Ireland
  Dumfriesshire	Dumfries Shire	Dumfriesshire, a coast and Border county in the S of Scotland. It is bounded N by Lanark, Peebles, and Selkirk	Groome
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Collins to the temperance cause. It has, on the W side, a bronze panel with a medallion portrait of Sir William. The Kelvingrove or West End	Groome
  LIVERPOOL	Lancashire	end of 1865, by Sir Charles Fox, to a numerous and influential meeting in Liverpool, and approved. Harbour and Docks. —Capt. Collins	Imperial
  Lochar	Dumfries Shire	Collin, Blackshaws, Bankend, and Greenmill all lie on or near the margin of the morass; and the village of Trench stands on one of the roads which traverse it. Lochar Water, rising, as Park Burn, at an altitude of 480 feet above sea-level, flows 18¼ miles south-south-eastward along the boundary between Kirkmahoe, Dumfries, and Caerlaverock on the right, and Tinwald, Torthorwald, Mouswald, and Ruthwell on the left, till it falls into the Solway Firth at a point 2¾ miles E by N of Caerlaverock Castle. It traverses Lochar Moss from end	Groome
  Musselburgh	Midlothian	end of the S side of the High Street. The inhabitants are said to have formed a guard round the house during the earl's illness, and to have received for their devotion some reward, in the form of town privileges, from the Earl of Mar, the succeeding regent. It is also said that the motto of the burgh, 'Honesty,' was derived from Mar's openly expressed opinion that the burghers were 'honest fellows' in acting as they did on this occasion. At the W end of the High Street stands the house in which Dr Smollett was received	Groome
  NOTTINGHAM	Nottinghamshire	NOTTINGHAM , a town, three parishes, an extra-parochial tract, and a district, in Notts. The town occupies a rocky eminence	Imperial
  OXFORD	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Wiltshire	end to end, an arcaderoofed with ornamented stucco work. The walks or groundsconnected with the college extend along the Cherwell; include avenues of trees, along raised dykes; command avariety of interesting views; and are kept in excellentorder. One of the avenues is called Addison's walk. Among the members of Magdalen have been Cardinals Wolsey and Pole, Archbishop Boulter, Bishops Hough, Horne, and Latimer, John and George Earls of Bristol, Arthur and Henry Princes of Wales, Deans Colet and Field, Sir T. Bodley, John Hampden, Heylin, Lilly, Withers, Addison, Linacre, Chandler, Collins	Imperial
  SKIBBEREEN	Cork	end, erected in 1827, at an expense of £1200, towards which £900 was contributed by the late Board of First Fruits. The R. C. chapel, situated near the sessions-house, is a spacious and handsome edifice in the Grecian style, erected in 1826, at an expense of £3000: the interior is fitted up with great taste, and the altar, which is ornamented with a painting of the Crucifixion, is very chaste: it was built under the direction of the late Dr. Collins	Lewis:Ireland
  WINCHESTER	Hampshire Surrey	end of the S aisle. St. Peter's-Cheese-hill is nearly square; and has Norman, transition Norman, early English, decorated English, and later English portions. St. Cross church is noticed in the article Cross (St.). St. Bartholomew's is said to have been built with fragments of Hyde abbey; and has some fine Norman portions, recently restored. Christchurch was built in 1861, at a cost of £3,500; and is in the early decorated English style. St. John-the-Baptist's chapel is late early English. The Wesleyan chapel, in St. Peter-street, was built	Imperial

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