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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  LOCKS HEATH LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	FAREHAM UD (Local Government District)

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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BIRMINGHAM	London Staffordshire Warwickshire Worcestershire	locks, screws, bolts, files, buckles, fire-irons, bridle-bits, iron chains, awl-blades, axle-trees, and nails. Trades of a prominent kind on small objects, either useful or fanciful, are very numerous and exceedingly various. The trades in buttons, in buckles, and in locks alone, have each many different branches. The gun trade is of great extent, and includes many departments. Glass-working, besides crown and sheet window-glass, plate glass, stained glass, chandeliers, candelabra, lustres, and similar objects, produces such things as beads, bugles, buttons, hour-glasses, and many kinds of toys. Gold and silver plating and electro-plating	Imperial
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	CANTERBURY , a city in Kent, and a diocese in Kent and Surrey. The city partly forms a district of itself	Imperial
  Coventry Canal	Staffordshire Warwickshire	thence NW. to Fradley Heath, 4 miles NE. of Lichfield; is 32 miles long, rises 96 ft., and has 14 locks.	Bartholomew
  COVENTRY CANAL	Staffordshire Warwickshire	Heath, 4 miles NE of Lichfield. It was formed in 1790; is 32¼ miles long; and rises 96 feet, with 14 locks	Imperial
  Dunbar	East Lothian	Dunbar (Gael. dun-barr, ` fort on the point '), a town and a parish on the north-eastern coast of Haddingtonshire	Groome
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	EXETER , a city and a district in Devon, and a diocese in Devon and Cornwall. The city stands on the	Imperial
  Forfarshire	Angus	Forfarshire, a large maritime and agricultural county, nearly corresponding to the ancient district of Angus, occupies the south-eastern corner	Groome
  Inveraray	Argyll	Inveraray (Gael. Inbhir-Aoraidh, of unknown etymology), a town and a parish in Argyll district, Argyllshire. A royal, parliamentary, and	Groome
  KILKENNY	Kilkenny	KILKENNY (County of), an inland county, in the western part of the province of Leinster, bounded on the east by	Lewis:Ireland
  LANCASHIRE	Lancashire	LANCASHIRE , a maritime and northern county; bounded on the N, by Cumberland and Westmoreland; on the E, by Yorkshire; on	Imperial
  LIVERPOOL	Lancashire	LIVERPOOL , a large seaport town on the S verge of Lancashire; the second for population and for commerce in England	Imperial
  Lomond	Dunbartonshire Stirlingshire	Lomond, (Gael. ? Laomain, the name of an old Celtic hero), a large lake, partly in Stirlingshire and partly in Dumbartonshire	Groome
  LONDON	London London	LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  MAIDSTONE	Kent	MAIDSTONE , a town, a parish, two sub-districts, a district, and a hundred, in Kent. The town stands on the	Imperial
  MAYO	Mayo	MAYO (County of), a maritime county of the province of CONNAUGHT, bounded on the east by the counties of Sligo	Lewis:Ireland
  Melrose	Roxburghshire Selkirkshire	Melrose, a post town and burgh of barony, in the southern section of the parish just described, between the Tweed	Groome
  STOCKTON-HEATH	Cheshire	HEATH , a village in Great Budworth parish, and a chapelry partly also in Runcorn parish, Cheshire. The village stands on the Bridgewater canal, 1 mile S of Warrington r. station; has a post-office under Warrington, and a police station with lock	Imperial
  Wednesfield	Staffordshire	locks and keys; the township contains the two eccl. dists. of Wednesfield and Wednesfield Heath (local government dist., called also	Bartholomew
  WEDNESFIELD	Staffordshire	locks, keys, and traps is very largely carried on. Edward the Elder beat the Danes here in 910.-The chapelries are W. and W.-Heath	Imperial
  Willenhall	Staffordshire	Heath), 2168 ac., pop. 18,461; town, 1368 ac., pop. 16,067; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank. In the reign of Elizabeth, Willenhall was a prosperous seat of iron manufacture. The industries now comprise iron and brass founding, lock	Bartholomew

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