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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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er bymeans of the rivers Thames, Lea, Coin,Brent, and the New-River. The mediumtemperature of the air, taken at London, is52°, and the wind is understood to blowsix months in the year from the S.W. Thesoil in some places is loamy, in others gra-vel, clay, or sand. The clay ground aroundLondon is convertible into bricks, of whichthe houses are in general built; the depthof this soil is various, but on an averageabout 5 or 6 feet, and will produce 1,000,000bricks, being valued at £500, per acre.The principal part of the land which liesround London, owing to the great plentyof manure, is converted into rich pasture ;whilst toward Bucks, there are some consi-derable tracts of arable land, which producegreat crops of corn. On the banks of the ri-vers Thames, Coin, and Lea, there are veryextensive meadows. The number of cowskept by the cow-keepers in Middlx. for thesupply of the inhabitants of the metropoliswith milk, amounts to 8500, besides 1500kept in Surrey and Kent; these yield on an
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MID ENGLAND AND WALES. MID average 8,000,000 gallons of pure milk perannum. The produce of hay for the Lon-don market is the principal object of thefarmers in this county ; their method ofmaking it is very excellent, and the supplyfurnished is sufficient for 30,000 horses.The whole county may be considered as asort of demesne to the metropolis, beingcovered with the villas of the principalnobility and gentry, intersected by theinnumerable roads leading to it, or laid outin gardens, pastures, and enclosures of allforts, for its convenience and support.The increase of buildings and other im-provements within the last century is asto-nishing, and Chelsea, Islington, Padding-ton, Pancras, Stepney, Poplar, &c. former-ly villages at a distance from the metropo-lis, are now completely united with it.This county abounds with seats of the no-bility and gentry, many of them of supe-rior architecture, and several of them en-compassed by fine parks, besides the royalpalaces of Kensington, and

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