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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Acton	Middlesex	Acton . par. and town with ry. sta., Middlesex, W. suburb of London, 2305 ac., pop. 17,126; also contains South	Bartholomew
  BRIDGNORTH	Shropshire	south aisles, with a southern tower; has a handsome new carved screen of Hollington stone, and a carved oak pulpit; and commands interest for being the place where Richard Baxter began his ministry. There are chapels for Independents, Baptists, and Methodists; a free grammar school, with three exhibitions at Oxford; a blue coat school; an hospital and alms-house, with jointly £257 a year; a literary institute; subscription reading room; a theological library, founded by Dean Stackhouse: and a public library, with nearly 5,000 volumes. The town has a head post office,‡ a railway station with telegraph	Imperial
  CHESTER	Cheshire	CHESTER , a city and two sub-districts in Great Boughton district, Cheshire; and a diocese in Cheshire and part of	Imperial
  DENBIGHSHIRE, or Denbigh	Denbighshire	south-east; rocks of millstone grit occur in the vicinity of these last tracts; rocks of the coal measures form a considerable tract around Wrexham and Ruabon; rocks of the Permian class, chiefly conglomerate sandstone and red marl, form a belt east of the coal measures; and rocks of the Trias class, chiefly new red sandstone, form a tract to the eastern boundary, around Holt, and another tract along the Clwyd, from above Denbigh to the sea. Iron ore occurs in the Ruabon and Berwyn hills, and at Bromba; lead ore is worked at Minera and elsewhere; slate, limestone	Imperial
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	ELY , a city and several territorial tracts in Cambridgeshire; and a diocese in the counties of Cambridge, Bedford, Huntingdon, Norfolk	Imperial
  GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL	Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire	South Cerney, Chedworth, Driffield, Northleach, Preston, and Sherbourne; and the p. curacies of Ampney-St. Mary, Ampney-St. Peter, Baunton, Cerney-Wick, Cirencester, Watermoor, and Compton-Abdale. The deanery of Fairford comprises the rectories of Barnsley, Eastleach - Martin, Hatherop, Meysey - Hampton, and Quenington; the vicarages of Bibury, Coln-St. Aldwyn, Down-Amney, Fairford, Kempsford, Lechlade, and Southrop; and the p. curacies of Aldsworth, Winson, Eastleach-Turville, and Marston-Meysey. The deanery of Hawkesbury comprises the rectories of Alderley, Cold Ashton, Boxwell-with-Leighterton, Charfield, Cromhall, Doynton, Didmarton-with-Oldbury, Doddington, Dyrham-with-Hinton, Frampton-Cotterell, Horton, Iron-Acton	Imperial
  HEREFORD	Herefordshire	HEREFORD , a city, a sub-district, and a district in Herefordshire; and a diocese partly also in Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Salop	Imperial
  KENSINGTON	Middlesex	KENSINGTON , a metropolitan suburb, a parish, a sub-district, a district, and a division in Middlesex. The suburb lies on	Imperial
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Acton-Trussell, Bednall, Bradley, Coppenhall, Dunstan, Penkridge-St. Michael, Penkridge-Christchurch, Stretton, and WheatonAston. The deanery of Rugeley contains the rectories of Blithefield, Colton, Ridware-Hamstall, and RidwareMavesyn; the vicarages of Abbots-Bromley, Colwich, and Rugeley; and the p. curacies of Armitage, Brereton, Cannock, Heywood, Hixon, Norton-Canes, Ridware-Pipe, and Great Wyrley. The deanery of Stafford contains the rectories of Haughton, Ingestre, Stafford-St. Mary, Standon, and Tixall; the vicarages of Milwich, Ranton, Seighford, and Weston-upon-Trent; and the p. curacies of Birchfield, Castle-Church, Derrington, Forebridge, Fradswell, Gayton, Marston, Salt, Stafford-St. Chad, StaffordChristchurch, Stow, and Whitgreave	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Acton, All Saints-Bishopsgate, BowSt. Mary-Stratford, Bromley, Christchurch-Spitalfields, Ealing, Finchley, Hackney, Hammersmith, Limehouse, Mile-End-New-Town, Northolt, Old Ford, Paddington, Mile-End-Old-Town, Poplar, Ratcliffe, Shadwell, South	Imperial
  MACCLESFIELD	Cheshire	MACCLESFIELD , a town, a township, four chapelries, two sub-districts, a district, and a hundred, in Cheshire. The town stands	Imperial
  MARYLEBONE	Middlesex	MARYLEBONE , a parish, a district, and a borough, in Middlesex. The parish forms a compact portion of the metropolis; lies	Imperial
  MIDDLESEX	Middlesex	MIDDLESEX , an inland county, within the basin of the Thames; bounded, on the N, by Herts; on the E, by	Imperial
  MIDLAND AND SOUTHWESTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY	Middlesex	South Western Junction at Acton, 4 miles northnorth-eastward, to the London Extension of the Midland at Hendon. It was authorized	Imperial
  NEWRY	Armagh Down	Acton, Scarva, Tanderagee, and Gilford to Portadown, where it is connected with the Bann, whence it proceeds in the bed of that river to the lake. It was commenced in 1730, and connected with Lough Neagh in 1741, but in consequence of the inconveniences arising from the accumulation of mud and sand in the mouth of the river, near Newry, it was deemed adviseable to prolong the navigation towards the bay to Fathom: this portion of the work, which is two miles in extent, was completed in 1761; the entire length of the navigation, including that of Lough Neagh	Lewis:Ireland
  POYNTZ-PASS, or FENWICK'S PASS	Armagh	south is Drumbanagher Castle, the handsome residence of Lieut.-Col. Maxwell Close, built in the Italian style, with a large portico in front; on an eminence above the town is Acton	Lewis:Ireland
  SHROPSHIRE, or Salop	Shropshire	south-by-westward thence into Herefordshire near Leintwardine. Roman stations were at Uxacona or Oakengates, Uriconinm or Wroxeter, and Rutoninm or Rowton; and ancient camps were at the Walls, Bury-Ditches, Bury-Walls, Borough-Hill, Brocards-Castle, and Bucknell. Offa's dyke and Wat's dyke run along much of the W border. Old castles are at Shrewsbury, Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Hopton, Stoke, Clun, Oswestry, Cawse, Whittington, Knockyn, Red Castle, and Acton	Imperial
  South Acton	Middlesex	South Acton *, eccl. dist. and ry. sta., Acton par., Middlesex, pop. 7194; the sta. is 2 miles NW. of Hammersmith	Bartholomew

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