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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Acton	Yorkshire	Acton , township, Featherstone par., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 3½ miles W. of Pontefract, 968 ac., pop. 706.	Bartholomew
  BROMYARD	Herefordshire	West Midland at Bransford Bridge to the Shrewsbury and Hereford at Leominster, was authorized in 1861, and was near completion in June 1869.—The parish contains also the townships of Winslow, Linton, and Norton. Acres, including Brockhampton, 8,611. Real property, £16,689. Pop., 2,995. Houses, 616. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Brockhampton, in the diocese of Hereford. Value, £600.* Patron, the Bishop of Worcester. The subdistrict contains the parishes of Stoke-Lacy, Morton-Jefferies, Felton, Little Cowarne, Ullingswick, Wacton, Bredenbury, Grendon-Bishop, and Pencombewith	Imperial
  CHESTER	Cheshire	Acton, Andlem, and Wybunbury; the p. curacies of Burly Dam, Wrenbury, Alsager, Crewe-Green, Haslington, Bunbury, Burwardsley, Calveley, Tilston, Crewe-Railway, Doddington, and Weston; and the donative of Minshull. The deanery of Malpas contains the rectories of Aldford, Coddington, Handley, Malpas, Lower Malpas, Marbury, Tattenhall, and Tilston; and the p. curacies of Harthill, Whitewell, Bickerton, Chadd, and Shocklach. The deanery of Middlewich contains the rectories of Astbury, Brereton, Smethwick, Davenham, Lawton-Church, Swettenham, and Warmingham; the vicarages of Middlewich, Over, Sandbach, and Whitegate; and the p. curacies of Buglawton, Congleton, Congleton-St. Stephen, Congleton-St. James, Eaton, Mosley, Odd-Rode	Imperial
  DENBIGHSHIRE, or Denbigh	Denbighshire	west side of the vale of the Clwyd and two other small tracts to the 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	Imperial
  DUNGANSTOWN	Wicklow	West Aston, the residence of Lieut.-Col. Acton; Oatlands, of W. Shepard, Esq.; Sheep hill, of J. Shepard, Esq.; Sea Park	Lewis:Ireland
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Acton, Assington, Bures-St. Mary, Great Cornard, Edwardston, Stoke-by-Nayland, Sudbury-All-Saints, Ballingdon, Little Waldingfield, and Wiston; and the p. curacies of Kersey, Levenheath, Lindsey, Nayland, Sudbury-St. Gregory, Sudbury-St. Peter, and Wattisham. The deanery of Thedwaster contains the rectories of Ampton, Bradfield-Combust, Bradfield-St. Clare, Bradfield-St. George, Rushbrooke, Drinkston, Felsham, Fornham-St. Genieve, Gedding, Hessett, Rattlesden, Rougham, Stanningfield, West	Imperial
  FELTON	Northumberland	Acton and Old Felton, and East and West Thirston-with-Shothaugh. Acres, 12, 830. Real property, £12, 224; of which	Imperial
  GLOUCESTER and BRISTOL	Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire	Acton, Siston, Little Sodbury, Tormarton, Tortworth, Weston-Birt, Wickwar, and Yate; the vicarages of Great Badminton, Bitton, Hawkesbury, Marshfield, Puckle-church, Old Sodbury, Tytherington, and Wapley-with-Codrington; and the p. curacies of Coal-Pit-Heath, Hanham-Abbots-with-Christchurch, Tresham, Hillesley, Kingswood, Oldland, Abson, Westerleigh, Wick, Range-worthy, Chipping-Sodbury, Acton-Turville, West	Imperial
  HAMMERSMITH	Middlesex	west end, was built in 1829; and is in the Doric style. St. Stephen's church, in Acton road, Shepherd	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	West Bromwich, the three p. curacies of Smethwick, the three p. curacies of Tipton, the two p. curacies of Handsworth, and the p. curacy of HarborneSt. John. The deanery of Himley contains the rectories of Himley and Kingswinford, the vicarage of Sedgley, and the p. curacies of Brierley-Hill, Brockmoor, Coseley, Ettingshall, Upper Gornal, Lower Gornal, KingswinfordSt. Mary, Pensnett, and Quarry-Bank. The deanery of Leek contains the rectory of Norton-in-Moors, the vicarages of Biddulph and Leek-St. Edward, and the p. curacies of Buddulph-Moor, Brownedge, Cheddleton, Endon, Horton, Ipstones, Leek-St. Luke, Longnor, Meerbrook, Milton, Onecote	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 Hackney, Stepney, St. Barnabas-Homerton, St. BotolphBishopsgate, St. George-in-the-East, Whitechapel, Bethnal-Green, Wapping, and West	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	Acton, Hampstead, Clerkenwell, and other places. About 150,000 acres are either arable land, meadow, or pasture. The soil is variously clayey, sandy, and gravelly; and has, in most parts, been worked into a fertile loam, by manuring and culture. Most farms average about 100 acres, but many comprise from 200 to 600 acres; and they are usually held on lease of 14 or 21 years. meadow lands form a large aggregate, usually yield two crops of good hay, and are let at from £4 to £6 an acre. The chief crops on the ploughed lands are wheat	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
  SHROPSHIRE, or Salop	Shropshire	west-north-westward, past Bishops-Castle, toward Montgomery; a line goes from the W one southward to Minsterley, and was in the course of being prolonged in 1868 toward Montgomery; a line, coming in from Montgomeryshire, crosses the W wing of the county, past Oswestry, into junction with the NW line from Shrewsbury; a line deflects from the preceding at Oswestry, and goes north-eastward, past Ellesmere, into junction at Whitchurch with the N line from Shrewsbury; a line in course of formation in 1868, connects the two preceding from Ellesmere south-eastward to Wem; and a line goes from	Imperial
  TORMARTON	Gloucestershire	Acton-Turville and West Littleton, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £800.* Patron, the Duke of Beaufort	Imperial

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