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Title: A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial ..
Year: 1776 (1770s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: London: : Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by J. Towers, and by R. Baldwin
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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navigable tillthe year 1730, when it was made fo by a& of parliament, quitefrom Stroud, to its conflux with the Severn. One of the riversAvon rifes in Northamptonfhire, and runnmg through War-wickfhire, and feparating Gloucefterfhire from Worcefterfhire,falls into the Severn near Tewkefbury. The other Avon, dif-tinguifhed by the name of Avon-weft, rifes not far from Tet^bury, near the borders of Wilt£hire, and feparating Gloucefter-ihire from Somerfetfhire, falls into the Severn near Briftol. This county is generally divided into three diftricls. The eas-tern part of the county, bordering upon Warwickshire, Oxfords-hire, and Berkshire, is called Catefwould j the middle part,the vale of (gloucefter, and the triangular part, included be-tween the Wye, the Severn, and a fmall river called the Leden,is called the Foreft of Dean. The vale of Gloucefter manUfeftly derived its name from its fituation, and t.he foreft wasprobably called the Foreft of Pean, from Deaia, the principal town
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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 273 town in thediftri£t ; fome have fuppofed the word Dean to be acorruption of drden, a name ufed by the ancient Gauls andBritons to fignify a wood ; and there is a wood in Warwick-shire called Arden to this day. This city is divided into thirtyhundreds, and contains one city and twenty-five market towns.It lies in the province of Canterbury, is a diocefe of itfelf, andcontains 280 parifh.es. The principal manufacture of this county is wbollen cloth ;and it was computed, that before our wool began to be clandef-tinely exported to France, 50,000 pieces of cloth were madeyearly in this county, which being eftimated at ten pounds apiece, the fine with the coarfe, amounts to 500,0001. GLOUCESTER. This city is 101 miles from London, and (lands on a pleafanthill, with houfes on every defcent, and is a clean well builttown, with the Severn on one fide, a branch of which bringsChips to it. It is beautified with a cathedral, befides five parithchurches, and is exceed

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