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Identifier: topographicaldic01capp (find matches)
Title: A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom ..
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Capper, Benjamin Pitts
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Publisher: London : Printed for Richard Phillips
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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H, a parish in Cliester ward,Durham, 12 miles from Vvalsiiigham, and272 from London; containing 42 houses apd215 inhabitants. It is a curacj. Hlnswouth, a township in the parish ofBirstall, Morlej wapentake, we^t riding ©fYork, 6 miles from Halifax, and 191 fqo;nLondon; contaiiung«fl23 houses and 5S5inhabitants. Huntingdon, a hamlet in the parish qfHolmer, hundred of Grimsworth, Hereford,2 miles from Hereford, and 157 from Londonjcontaining 18 houses and ^9 inhabitants. Huntingdon, the county town of Hun-tingdonshire, situate near the river Quse,over which it has a good free-stone bridge ofsix arches, and consists of four parishes,containii;g 350 houses and 2035 inhabitan);**viz. 99;* males and 1042 females, of wboip879 were returned ss principally einphiyejiin trade and nianufai ture. From its ancientconvenient neigiibourhood for hunting, it issupposed to have derived is name frc)^IliiKloti (hizt-ri, and it was original^ built ona spot that was an entire forest. 1 he town. riattXW.
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DiiUrfl,;tJan--.i.jJot. W RriiMpiJinJfr STrrttJiladtfriarf.lMuli. Ihoptr drC ft Ttttlp. HUN HUN is recorded to have formerly had 15 pa-rish cliurclies, but now there are onlytv.o: there are also the buryingr-grounds uftwo other parishes j in one of which i3an ancient teeple. Near the ciiurcli ofSt. Mary was anciently a priory of blackcanons. On an eminence near t!ie town tooda casi le, erected by Edward the Elder, andenlar^ed by David I. of Scotland, earl ofHuntingdon. There are two places of wor-ship for dssencrs in the town, one belongingto the Sect ratronized by the latecnuiittssof liiimingilon, and the other to the qnakers.Towards the eostern side, where the principalpart of the tov\u formerly stood, the kmeswhich divide the enclosures from each otherstill retain their ancient names; and in apiece of grruund, called the Priory Close, twostone coffins were di;g up during tiie bitcentury. It now chiefly consists of oneprincipal street and several lanes,well paved,and lighted during

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