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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Berwickshire	Berwickshire	great directing minds for many years; commended itself eventually to the approbation of the general body of the farmers; and, embracing all the departments of tillage, fertilisation, rotation, and stock-husbandry, as expounded by science and tested by experience, has rendered Berwickshire one of the most skilfully cultivated and highly productive regions in the world, as shown by the comparative tables of our Introduction. The improvement in the breeds of cattle and sheep, begun about the end of last century, went forward till it displaced the old breeds and substituted for them more productive breeds, better adapted to the soil	Groome
  COVENTRY	Warwickshire	great hall, 63 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 34 feet high, with timbered roof and minstrels' gallery. The county-hall was built in 1785; has Doric columns; and is commodious. A corn exchange was built in 1866; and a memorial cross of Sir Joseph Paxton	Imperial
  Edinburgh	Midlothian	great hall 105 feet long, 70 wide, and 77 high, a natural history hall 130 feet long, 57 wide, and 77 high, a S hall 70 feet long, 50 wide, and 77 high, and a NE room 70 feet long and 50 wide. In 1871 it was further enlarged to the extent of more than one-third of the whole design, and completed in the spring of 1874. It contains in that part the continuation and completion of the great hall, now 270 feet long, a refreshment hall 50 feet long and 30 wide, an eastern annexe 62 feet long	Groome
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Great Catworth, Abbots-Hemingford, Keystone, Little Stukeley, Molesworth, and Woolley; the vicarages of Brampton, Easton, Ellington, Fenstanton, Godmanchester, Great Stukeley, Hartford, Grey-Hemingford, Leighton-Bromswold, and Spaldwick; and the p. curacies of Bythorn, Old Weston, Hilton, and Long Stow. The deanery of St. Neots contains the rectories of Eynesbury, Offord-Cluny, Offord-D'Arcy, Swineshead, and Yelling; the vicarages of Abbotsley, Buckden, Diddington, Everton, Tetworth, Great Gransden, Great Paxton	Imperial
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Glasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of	Groome
  HALIFAX	Yorkshire	Paxton, and includes walks, seats, lakes, fountains, mounds, embankments, parterres, and a grand terrace with eight beautiful Italian statues. A statue of the donor, in testimony of their gratitude for the gift, by the inhabitants of Halifax, was erected in 1860. The town hall was erected after designs by the late Sir Charles Barry, -said to have been the last designs which he prepared; was opened in Aug. 1863, by the Prince of Wales; cost about £50, 000; is in the Italian style, of very ornate character; forms a parallelogram, of about 140 feet by 90; has a corner	Imperial
  HUNTINGDONSHIRE, HUNTINGDON, or HUNTS	Huntingdonshire	Great Stukeley Hall, Hemingford House, HolmeWood House, Paxton Hall, Paxton Park, Priory Hill, Ramsey Abbey, Ripton Hall, Riversfield, Staughton House	Imperial
  NEOTS (St.)	Huntingdonshire	Paxton, Southoe, Diddington, Graffham, Buckden, Offord-Cluney, Offord-Darcy, Great Paxton, and Toseland, electorally in Huntingdon, Graveley, electorally in Cambridge	Imperial
  OUSE, or Great Ouse (The)	Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Norfolk	Great Barford, and thence north-north-eastward to a point ¾of a mile below Little Barford; in Hunts, first 2½ miles northward along the boundary, past St. Neots, next north-north-eastward, past Great Paxton	Imperial
  Paxton, Great	Huntingdonshire	Paxton, Great , par. and vil., Huntingdonshire, on river Ouse, 3 miles NE. of St Neots, 1120 ac., pop. 261; near	Bartholomew
  PAXTON (Great)	Huntingdonshire	PAXTON (Great) , a parish, with a village, in St. Neots district, Hunts; on the river Ouse and the Great Northern	Imperial
  Paxton House	Berwickshire	great-great-great uncle, was a member of the Mirror Club, and at Paxton was visited by Henry Mackenzie ('The Man of Feeling	Groome
  PAXTON (Little)	Huntingdonshire	PAXTON (Little) , a parish, with a village, in St. Neots district, Hunts; on the river Ouse, 1¾ mile N by W of St. Neots r. station. It has a post-office under Huntingdon. Acres, 2,040. Real property, £2, 982. Pop., 247. Houses, 51. The manor belongs to Lord Overstone. Paxton Park is the seat of Sir W. Booth, Bart.; and Paxton Hall, of R. A. Reynolds, Esq. There are extensive paper mills. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Great	Imperial
  SCARBOROUGH	Yorkshire	SCARBOROUGH , a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in N. R. Yorkshire. The town stands	Imperial
  Tweed	Berwickshire Peebles Shire	Paxton House. Nor do these exhaust the old keeps many of them with historic names - that studded the whole valley `from Berwick to the Bield,' and frowned defiance across the border at the line of strengths on the English side. These peels are a peculiar feature of the whole line of the river as well as of the courses of its tributaries, marking `barbarous times when Border raids were in continual activity, and when no one on either side of the marches, or debateable land, could lay down his head to sleep at night with out the chance of having	Groome

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