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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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unded on the north by Cumberland,Westmoreland, and Yorkshire, on the eastand on the south by Cheshire. Its extremelength is about 74 miles, and its width from15 to 44 miles. By a return made to theHouse of Lorda, and printed in the year1818, it is stated that the area of thiscountycomprises 1831 square statute miles, equalto 1,171,840 statute acres, of which above370,000 are in a state of tillage, 450,000in pasturage, and nearly 400,000 in wood-lands, and uncultivated ; the number ofinhabitants to each square mile, containing640 acres, being 452. It is divided into 6hundreds, viz. Amoundemess, Blackburn,Leyland, Lonsdale, Salford, and West-Der-by ; and contains 6 boroughs, viz. Clitheroe,Lancaster, Liverpool, Newton, Preston, andWigan ; 21 market-towns, Blackburn, Bol-ton, Burnley, Bury, Cartmel, Chorley, Coin,Dalton, Eccleston, Garstang, Haslingdon,Hawkshead, Hornby, Kirkham, Manchester,Ormskirk, Poulton, Prescot, Rochdale, Ul-verston, and Warrington, beside 62 parishes • Plate JZT
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