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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BLACKBURN	Lancashire	Harwood subdistrict, containing Great Harwood, Little Harwood, and Rishton townships in Blackburn parish, and Clayton-le-Moors chapelry in Whalley	Imperial
  BOLTON	Lancashire	Great Bolton.—The district comprehends also Sharples subdistrict, containing Sharples township and the detached part of Little Bolton township; Edgeworth subdistrict, containing Edgeworth, Entwistle, and Quarlton townships; Turton subdistrict, containing Turton, Bradshaw, and Longworth townships; Tonge-with-Haulgh subdistrict, containing Tonge, Haulgh, Breightmet, and Harwood	Imperial
  BOLTON-LE-MOORS	Lancashire	Great Bolton, Little Bolton, Sharples, Quarlton, Edgeworth, Entwistle, Longworth, Turton, Bradshaw, Haulgh, Tonge, Breightmet, Harwood, Lostock, Darcy-Lever, Blackrod, Anglezarke	Imperial
  BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, or Bucks	Buckinghamshire	Great Harwood. Beech and oak are the principal timber; and the former, called in Saxon "buccen," gave name to the county	Imperial
  Calder, Mid	Midlothian	greatly improved within the past few years, all the old thatched and most of the tiled houses having given place to others of a more modern style, several fine villas having been built to the E, and a plentiful supply of water having been introduced. At it are a post office, with money order and savings' bank departments, a branch of the Clydesdale Bank, gas-works, an hotel, the ancient parish church, a U.P. church (1765), and 2 public schools; whilst fairs are held here on the second Tuesday of March and the Friday after the second Tuesday of October	Groome
  Calder, West	Midlothian	Harwood, Murieston, Linhouse, and two or three lesser burns flow northward or north-eastward to the Almond; whilst in the S, on the Carnwath boundary, lies Cobinshaw reservoir (1½ mile x 3 1 / 3 furlongs). The northern district is mainly low country, well cultivated and highly embellished; the southern consists of high, bleak moorland, incapable of cultivation. From less than 500 feet above sea-level along Breich Water, the surface rises south-eastward to the Pentlands, attaining 987 feet in Pearie Law, and 1700 in Craigengar on the boundary with Linton. The rocks to a great	Groome
  DURHAM	County Durham	DURHAM , a city and a district in the county of Durham, and a diocese in the NE of England. The	Imperial
  Great Harwood	Lancashire	Great Harwood , town and township with ry. sta., in par. and 4 miles NE. of Blackburn, NE. Lancashire, 2863 ac., pop. 6287; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank	Bartholomew
  Harwood, Great	Lancashire	Harwood, Great , town and township with ry. sta., in par. and 4 miles NE. of Blackburn, NE. Lancashire, 2863 ac., pop. 6287; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank	Bartholomew
  HARWOOD (GREAT)	Lancashire	HARWOOD (GREAT) , a town, a township-chapelry, and a sub-district in Blackburn parish and district, Lancashire. The town stands	Imperial
  Hobkirk	Roxburghshire	great additional extent of pasture land has since been brought under cultivation, and bears fair grain crops. Plantations cover some 800 acres, and much of the uplands is still pastoral or waste. The chief antiquities are ancient fortifications on Bonchester Hill, and vestiges of ancient camps or fortifications on Ruberslaw, at Wauchope, and in several other places. The Rev. Robert Riccalton, author of two volumes of essays and sermons, was minister of Hobkirk from 1725 till 1769; and the poet Thomson, spending with him some part of his early life, is said to have planned his Seasons here	Groome
  LANCASHIRE	Lancashire	Great Harwood, Haslingden, Heywood, Hindley, Kirkham, Leigh, Lytham, Middleton, Much Woolton, Newchurch, Newton-in-Mackerfield, Ormskirk, Over Darwen, Padiham, Prescot	Imperial
  MALDON	Essex	Harwood; of the latter, the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.-The two sub-districts are All Saints and St. Peter. The sub-d. of All Saints contains the parishes of All Saints, WoodlhamWalter, Woodham-Mortimer, Hazeleigh, Purleigh, Stow Maries, Cold Norton, North Fambridge, Latchingdon Snoreham, and Mundon. Acres, 24,773. Pop., 4,714. Houses, 1,001. The sub-d. of St. Peter contains the parishes of St. Peter, St. Mary, Heybridge, Langford, Great	Imperial
  Muirkirk	Ayrshire	Muirkirk, a town and a parish in the NE of Kyle district, Ayrshire. The town, lying near the right bank	Groome
  Roxburghshire	Roxburghshire	Roxburghshire, an inland county in the middle of the Scottish marches, and perhaps the most characteristically Border county of all	Groome
  SCARBOROUGH	Yorkshire	SCARBOROUGH , a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in N. R. Yorkshire. The town stands	Imperial

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