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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ASAPH (St.)	Flintshire	great piety, who died and was buried here in 596. The most notable of the bishops, after Asaph, were Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Welsh Herodotus; Anian, the black friar of Schonan; John de Trevor, the Crusader, who pronounced the deposition of Richard II.; Edmund de Birkenhead, and Goldwell, who sat in the council of Trent; Pocock, the Wickliffite; Morgan and Davis, translators of the Bible; Owen, who introduced sermons in Welsh; Griffith, the author of the "Form of Adult Baptism;" Isaac Barrow, who educated his nephew of his own name, the distinguished mathematician; Beveridge, the author of "Thesanrus Theologicus	Imperial
  CHESTERFIELD	Derbyshire	Whittington, and two townships of North Wingfield. Acres, 27, 966. Pop., 28, 983. Houses, 5, 810. -The district comprehends also the sub-district of Bolsover, containing the parishes of Heath, Sutton-cum-Duckmanton, and part of Bolsover; the sub-district of Eckington, containing the parishes of Eckington, Killamarch, and part of Staveley; the sub-district of Dronfield, containing five townships of Dronfield parish, and Great	Imperial
  CORBRIDGE	Northumberland	Great Whittington, and Little Whittington. Acres, 13, 130. Real property, £10, 582. Pop., 2, 170. Houses, 444. The manor	Imperial
  Devil's Causeway	Northumberland	Devil's Causeway , Roman road, Northumberland, stretching N. from Roman Wall past Great Whittington, Hartburn, and Longhorsley to Longframlington.	Bartholomew
  GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL	Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire	Great Rissington, Little Rissington, Wick-Rissington, Shipton-Sollars, Shipton-Oliffe, Upper Slaughter, Stow-on-the-Wold, Sutton-under-Brails, Upper Swell, Westcote, and Windrush; the vicarages of Aston-Blank, Great Barrington, Little Barrington, Bledington, Guyting-Inferior, Longborough, Lower Swell, and Turk-Dean; and the p. curacies of Clapton, Lower Slaughter, Addlestrop, Little Compton, Farmcote, Yanworth, and Cold Salperton. The deanery of Winchcomb comprises the rectories of Bishops-Cleeve, Cheltenham, Colesbourne, Dowdeswell, Hasfield, Leckhampton, Sudeley, Swindon, Whittington	Imperial
  HIGHGATE	Middlesex	great pomp to the city. Henry VII., after the battle of Bosworth field, on his way to the metropolis, was received here by the corporation and citizens of London. Queen Elizabeth visited Highgate in 1589; Mary, Queen of Scots, was detained a short time at the neighbouring house of the Earl of Arundel; James I. spent a night here, in 1624, prior to a stag hunt in St. John's wood; and many other sovereigns and distinguished persons have halted here, or passed through, on their way to the north. Many travellers used, at taverns here, to enjoy a curious	Imperial
  HOLLOWAY	Middlesex	Great North road, in the hollow S of Highgate, on the Tottenham and Hampstead railway, adjacent to the Great Northern railway, 3¾ miles NNW of St. Paul's; has stations on the railways, and post offices ‡ under London N; comprises two parts, Lower H. on the S, Upper H. on the N, jointly about 1 1 / 2 mile long; and consists largely of ranges of handsome houses, many of them villas or detached buildings, with gardens in front. The city prison is here; was built, in 1851, under the direction of Mr. Bunning, the city architect	Imperial
  ISLINGTON	Middlesex	Great Northern, is in Caledonian road; and, at the census of 1861, had 18 inmates. Whittington college, a magnificent charitable	Imperial
  LANCASHIRE	Lancashire	LANCASHIRE , a maritime and northern county; bounded on the N, by Cumberland and Westmoreland; on the E, by Yorkshire; on	Imperial
  LANCASTER	Lancashire	LANCASTER , a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district in Lancashire. The town stands on the	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	great battle was fought on "a field" here by three kings, who slew one another on the spot. Another tradition alleges that the town existed in the Roman times; that it was the scene of a slaughter of Christians during the Diocletian persecution in 286; and that it took its name of ''the field of the dead ''from that slaughter. It probably was no more than a small village in the time of Oswy, king of Northumbria. That monarch, about 656, having defeated and slain Penda, the heathen king of Mercia, introduced Christianity among his subjects, and made Lichfield	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Great Tower-street, contained the Boar's Head tavern, which was made famous by Shakespeare, rebuilt after the great fire, and removed at the making of King Williamstreet to London bridge-Cannon street, on a line thence westward, was the place, at the London Stone, where Jack Cade proclaimed himself in 1447. Leadenhallstreet, going eastward on a line with Cornhill, took its name from Leaden Hall, on the site of the present meatmarket; contained the seat of the Nevilles, which passed to Lord Mayor Whittington	Imperial
  MANCHESTER	Lancashire Manchester	MANCHESTER , a city, a township, a district, a parish, and a diocese in Lancashire. The city stands at an intersection	Imperial
  OSWESTRY	Shropshire	OSWESTRY , a town, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a hundred, in Salop. The town stands on the	Imperial
  PERSHORE	Worcestershire	Whittington, and part of the parish of Fladbury. Acres, 17, 781. Pop., 6, 507. Houses, 1, 392. The district comprehends also the sub-district of Eckington, containing the chapelries of Defford, Besford, Bricklehampton, and W ck, and the parishes of Eckington, Elmley-Castle, Cropthorne, Strensham, Birlingham, Great	Imperial
  SHROPSHIRE, or Salop	Shropshire	SHROPSHIRE , or Salop, an inland county, of the W of England; bounded, on the NW, by Denbighshire; on the N	Imperial
  Whittington, Great and Little	Northumberland	Whittington, Great and Little , 2 townships, Corbridge par., Northumberland, 7 miles NE. of Hexham; Great Whittington, 1494 ac., pop. 219; Little	Bartholomew
  WHITTINGTON (Great and Little)	Northumberland	WHITTINGTON (Great and Little) , two townships in Corbridge parish, Northumberland; 7 and 6½ miles NE of Hexham. Acres, 1,477 and 348. Pop., 224 and 19. Houses	Imperial
  WORCESTER	Herefordshire Oxfordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire	Whittington, £300;* of Holy Trinity, not reported; of St. Paul, £150. Patron of St. Albans, St. Helen, St. Nicholas, and St. Paul, the Bishop of W.; of All Saints, the Lord Chancellor; of the others, the Dean and Chapter of W. St. Albans' church is very ancient, and was recently restored. All Saints was rebuilt in 1742. St. Andrew's is of the 11th century, greatly	Imperial

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