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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CRADLEY	Worcestershire	Dudley canal, 2½ miles ENE of Stourbridge; is connected by a branch railway with the West Midland at Stourbridge; has a post office under Brierley Hill; and carries on extensive manufactures in iron and hardware. The chapelry includes the town, some manufacturing dependencies, and some rural tracts. Acres, 732. Real property, £8, 471; of which £1, 100 are in mines. Pop., 4, 075. Houses, 779. The property is not much divided. The manor belongs to Lord Lyttleton. A saline spring, called the Lady well, in much medicinal repute, is in a picturesque wooded	Imperial
  GORNALL (Lower and Upper)	Staffordshire	Dudley. Value of-G., £215.* Patron, the Vicar of Sedgley. There are in L. G., chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists; in G. Wood	Imperial
  Hutton	Berwickshire	wooded, is charmingly picturesque. Sandstone is a prevailing g rock, and can be found, at comparatively little depth from the surface, in almost every part, whilst a stratum of gypsum occurs on Hutton Hall estate. The soil on the lands along the rivers is mostly a rich deep loam, incumbent upon sandstone; but on part of the central lands is thin, wet, and cold, overlying a strong tenacious clay. Some 65 acres are pastoral, about 260 are under wood, and all the rest of the land is regularly in tillage. Andrew Foreman, Archbishop of St Andrews from	Groome
  KENILWORTH	Warwickshire	woods in Kenilworth parish, excepting the site of the castle and its park, and with other privileges; it possessed, at the dissolution, an annual revenue of £534; it was then given to Sir Andrew Flamock; it went, by sale, to the Earl of Leicester; and it belongs now to the Earl of Clarendon. It was in the Anglo-Norman style, of large extent and of imposing aspect; but, with trivial exceptions, it has all disappeared. A gateway of it exists in good preservation, and is very picturesque; another fragment, of similar character, is not far from the gateway	Imperial
  LEAMINGTON	Warwickshire	wooded valley, amid a fertile tract of country, 2¼ miles E by N of Warwick, 3¼ NW of the Fosse way, and 23 SE of Birmingham. It took its name from its situation on the Leam; and it is called also LeamingtonPriors, from its having belonged to Kenilworth priory, and to distinguish it from Leamington-Hastings. The manor around it belonged to Turchill, the Saxon Earl of Warwick; went, after the Conquest, to Roger de Montmorency, who became Earl of Shrewsbury; passed soon to the Bishop of Liehfield and Coventry, and then to Geoffrey de Clinton; was given	Imperial
  NETHERTON	Worcestershire	Dudley; has a station on the railway, a post-office‡ under Dudley, and a good inn; and is a centre of extensive manufacturing establishments and of a extensive miningtrade. The chapelry was constituted in 1844. Rated property, £10,050. Pop., 10, 426. Houses, 1, 964. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to the Earl of Dudley. There are some good residences. Mineral springs, similar to those of Cheltenham, with baths and a commodious inn, are at Saltwells-Wood	Imperial
  OXFORD	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Wiltshire	Dudley, Earl of Leicester, who figures tragically in Sir Walter Scott's novel of " Kenilworth, "the grave of Dr. Radcliffe, one of the last persons honoured with a public funeral attended by the whole university, and amonumental tablet to Sir William Jones, by Flaxman; gave the title of Dean to John of Oxford, the partisan of Henry II. in his contest with Becket; was the churchto which Cranmer was forcibly brought, immediately before his death, to hear a Popish sermon; was also thechurch in which the Rev. J. H. Newman ministered, asvicar, in 1834-43; and is the church	Imperial
  OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY	Gloucestershire Oxfordshire Staffordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire	Wood, to Worcester; crosses the Birmingham and Gloucester railway at Abbots-Wood; and goes from Worcester northward, past Kidderminster, Stourbridge, and Dudley	Imperial
  RICHMOND	Surrey	wooded islets. The theatre was built in 1766; is a plain brick edifice; and was the scene of a stampede, caused by an outbreak offire in Nov. 1865. St. Mary's church is partly ancient, but chiefly modern; was restored and enlarged in 1866, at a cost of about £4, 500; and contains monuments of Thomson the poet, who was interred in it, Gilbert Wakefield the critic, Lord Brouncker, Viscount Fitzwilliam, Admiral Holbourn, E. Gibson the painter, Mrs. Yatesthe actress, Edmund Kean the tragedian, Lady Margaret Chudleigh, Major Bean who fell at Waterloo, the Rev. R. Delafosse	Imperial
  WALSALL	Staffordshire	Dudley; was visited by Queen Elizabeth, and by Queen Henrietta Maria; became a municipal borough in the time of Henry IV., and a parliamentary borough in 1832; is governed by a mayor, 6 aldermen, and 18 councillors, and sends one member to parliament; is a seat of sessions and county-courts, and a polling place; publishes three weekly newspapers; carries on many departments of iron manufacture, tanning, currying, brush-making, saddlery, harness-making, and an extensive coal trade; commands great traffic from neighbouring mines of coal and iron-stone, and neighbouring sources of limestone and brick-clay; was formerly	Imperial
  WORCESTERSHIRE, or Worcester	Worcestershire	WORCESTERSHIRE , or Worcester, an inland county; bounded, on the NW, by Salop; on the N, by Staffordshire; on the E	Imperial

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