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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Aberdeen	Aberdeenshire	Quay, is a granite five-arch structure, opened on 2 July 1881, having cost £25,000.-The Auld Brig o' Balgownie, built about 1320, either by Bishop Cheyne or by King Robert Bruce, crosses the Don, 2½ miles N by W of Castle Street. A single Gothic arch, narrow and steep, of 67 feet span and 34½ high above the black deep salmon pool	Groome
  BALLYMODAN	Cork	Poole, Esq.; Hare Hill, of J. Beamish, Esq.; Mount Prospect, of Mrs. Bradshaw; Overton, of Colonel Clerke; Richmount, of J. Sealy, Esq.; and Clancoole, of Mrs. Gillman. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Cork, and in the patronage of the Bishop; the rectory is impropriate in the Duke of Devonshire. The tithes amount to £800, payable in moieties to the impropriator and the vicar. The church, a plain neat edifice, situated in the town of Bandon, was erected at the expense of the first Earl of Cork, in 1618, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have lately granted	Lewis:Ireland
  BIRKENHEAD	Cheshire	BIRKENHEAD , a seaport town, a township, and seven chapelries, in the district of Wirrall, Cheshire. The town stands on the	Imperial
  CARRICKFERGUS	Antrim	CARRICKFERGUS , a sea-port, borough, market-and post-town, and parish, and a county of itself, locally in the county	Lewis:Ireland
  CARRIGALINE	Cork	pool. The parish is situated on the road from Cork to Tracton, and contains 14,254 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £16,606 per annum-; the surface is pleasingly undulated, and the soil is fertile; a considerable part is under an improved system of tillage, and the remainder is in demesne, meadow, or pasture land. There is neither waste land nor bog; coal, which is landed at several small quays	Lewis:Ireland
  EXETER	Cornwall Devon	EXETER , a city and a district in Devon, and a diocese in Devon and Cornwall. The city stands on the	Imperial
  GUILSFIELD	Montgomeryshire	Pool-Quay r. station and the river Severn, and 3 NNW of Welshpool; is a very pretty place; and has a post	Imperial
  KINGSBRIDGE	Devon	quay at Dodbrooke; presents a very clean and respectable appearance; is a seat of county courts and petty sessions, and a polling place; publishes a weekly newspaper; and has a head post office, ‡ two banking offices, two hotels, a town hall, a church, four dissenting chapels, a grammar school, national schools, a literary and scientific institution, a workhouse, and charities £449. The town hall was built in 1850, at a cost of £1, 500; is in the Italian style; and contains a news room. The church is ancient and cruciform, with tower and spire; and has undergone	Imperial
  LIMERICK	Limerick	quays are already contracted for, to be finished in 1838: they are to extend 3030 feet, from Kelly's Quay to the custom-house. A cut from the Abbey river continues the navigation, partly in the river and partly by an artificial canal for 15 miles, to Lough Derg, which was transferred by Government to a private association, called the Limerick Navigation Company, on their undertaking to expend £3000 in the rebuilding of Baal's bridge, which had previously interrupted the communication between the canal and the tide-water of the river, and still continues	Lewis:Ireland
  Liverpool	Lancashire	pool." It is very doubtful whether the town existed at the time of the Conquest. Camden (1551-1623) refers to it as being more famous for its beauty and populousness than for its antiquity. In 1172 the military operations in Ireland gave it great importance as a convenient point of embarkation for troops. With this exception the early history of Liverpool contains little that is interesting or important. The first charter was granted in 1173 by Henry II.; in 1207 the charter was confirmed by King John, and 20 years later the town was constituted a free borough	Bartholomew
  LIVERPOOL	Lancashire	pool, where the quay and the landing-place were situated, was 1 11 feet in width; and the front facing	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	pool. Greenwich reach extends thence, past Greenwich hospital, to a total length of about 1¼ mile; Blackwall reach goes thence along all the E side of the Isle of Dogs; the two other reaches go eastward thence to Woolwich; and these four reaches have an average breadth of from 400 to 500 yards. Ships of 800 tons burden come up to the pools; and large barges can go nearly 130 miles above London bridge. Colliers, steamers, and small craft lie along-side quays	Imperial
  LYNN, KINGS-LYNN, or LYNN-REGIS	Norfolk	LYNN , KINGS-LYNN, or LYNN-REGIS, a town, a parish, three sub-districts, and a district, in Norfolk. The town	Imperial
  MIDLETON	Cork	MIDLETON , an incorporated market and post-town, and a parish, in the barony of IMOKILLY, county of CORK, and province	Lewis:Ireland
  PLYMOUTH	Devon	Quay at Sutton-pool; was built in 1820, at a cost of £8,000; and contains a principal room	Imperial
  Poole	Dorset	Poole harbour, 5 miles (by omnibus) W. of Bournemouth, 30 miles E. of Dorchester, and 118½ miles SW. of London by rail - par. (Poole St James), 160 ac., pop. 7179; bor. (embracing also Hamworthy par., and Longfleet and Parkstone townships, Canford Magna par.), 5111 ac., pop. 12,310; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks, 2news-papers. Market-days, Monday and Thursday . Poole harbour, an irregular inlet, 7 miles by 4½ miles, formed by the projection of the Isle of Purbeck, is one of the best harbours on the S. coast. Vessels of very large tonnage can reach the quays	Bartholomew
  POOLE	Dorset	POOLE , a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Dorset. The town stands on a neck of Poole bay orharbour, adjacent to the E end of a quondam Roman road to Wareham, and to the terminus of a branch of the Southwestern railway, 22 miles E of Dorchester; took its name from the pool-like bay on which it is situated; washeld as part of Canford, by William Longespee; passed to the Plantagenets, the Lacys, the Montacutes, and others; went afterward to the Webbs and the Guests; sent 4ships, in the time of Edward	Imperial
  Pool Quay	Montgomeryshire	Pool Quay , vil. with ry. sta., Guilsfield par., and eccl. dist., partly also in Welshpool par. and bor., Montgomeryshire - dist	Bartholomew
  POOL-QUAY	Montgomeryshire	POOL-QUAY , a village and a chapelry in Guilsfield parish, Montgomery. The village stands on the river Severn and on the Cambrian	Imperial
  YORK	Yorkshire	YORK , a city, a district, an ainsty, and a diocese, in Yorkshire. The city stands on Watling-street, on the	Imperial

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