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Identifier: topographicaldic00capp (find matches)
Title: A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom, containing every city, town, village, hamlet, parish, district, object and place in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the small islands dependent
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Capper, Benjamin Pitts
Subjects: Great Britain
Publisher: London G.B. Whittaker
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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county lies inOxfordshire, and a part of Wiltshire is inthis county. It is in the Oxford circuit, in theprovince of Canterbury, and the diocese ofSalisbury. It sends 9 members to parlia-ment ; being 2 for the county, 2 for Wind-sor, 2 for Reading, 2 for Wallingford, and 1for Abingdon. It is divided into 20 hun-dreds, viz. Bcynhurst, Bray, Charlton,Compton, Cooknam, Faircross, Farringdon,Gantield, Hormer, Kintbury-Eagle, Lam-bourn, Moreton, Ock, Reading, Ripples-mere, Shrivenham, Sunning, Theale, Wan-tage, and Wargrave. It has 12 market towns,viz. Abingdon, Farringdon, Hungerford,East-Ilsley, Lambourn, Maidenhead, New-bury, Ockingham, Reading, Wallingford,Wantage, and Windsor. Its principal riveris the Thames; it has also the Kennet,(great part of which is navigable,) the Lod-don, the Ocke. and the Lambourn, a smallstream which, contrary to most other rivers,is highest in summer, and sinks gradually aswinter approaches. The western and mid-dle parts of the county are now fertile ; the
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BSR BER eastern is chiefly occupied by Windsorforest and its appendages, and it has muchland uncultivated. A range of chalk hillscrosses from Oxfordshire, and bounds thenoted vale of White-Horse, so called fromthe gigantic figure of a horse, of great an-tiquity, rudely formed on the naked side of achalk hill, by cutting away the turf; its ori-gin is uncertain. This vale produces excel-lent corn, and has besides several good dairyfarms. About Newbury peat is dug, andused for fuel, the ashes making a rich ma-nure. Much barley is malted in this coun-ty, and sent to London. The air is esteemedhealthy even in the vales. It is well storedwith timber, particularly oak and beech.Its principal manufactories are woollen,paper, and sail-cloth. Besides its navigablerivers it has the Kennett and Avon canalfrom Reading to.Hungerford. The RomanWatling-strcet,from Dunstable, enters Berk-shire at Strcatley, and crosses the county toMarlborough. Another Roman road, fromHampshire, enters this county, an

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