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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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lies are returned as beingemployed in trade and manufactures, and9427 families in agriculture. Durham sendsfour members to parliament, viz. two for thecounty and two for the city. It is dividedinto four wards, viz. Chester, Darlington,Easington, and Stockton, besides the* twodetached districts, called Norhamshire andIslandshire, in Northumberland. The mar-ket-towns are Darlingston, Stockton, Sun-derland, Hartlepool, Bishops-Auckland,Bernard-Castle, Sedgefield, Wolsingham,and South-Shields. Its principal rivers arethe Tees, Wear, and Tyne; these, and seve-ral smaller streams abound with excellenttrout and salmon. When the Romans in-vaded England, this county was inhabitedby the Brigantes. During the Saxon Hep-tarchy it formed part of the kingdom ofNorthumberland; and when Christianitywas embraced, the kings of Northumber-land, out of devotion, gave this part oftheir territory to St. Cuthbert, and his suc-cessors, bishops of Lindisfarne, for ever;which grant was further confirmed by WiL
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dur ENGLAND AND WALES. DUR liam the Conqueror, who also made it acounty palatine ; its bishop being investedwith as great powers within his see, as theking is over the rest of the country. Theair of this county is not regular, but gene-rally good and wholesome; on the hills itis very cold and sharp. The north and westsides are but barren, and thinly inhabited ;but the south and east parts are more plea-sant, and tolerably fertile; containing somebeautiful meadows, woods, and pastures;but the farms are usually of small extent.The chief traffic of this county is in coals,which is found in seams, for the most partnearly 15 feet thick, yielding about 1,480,000chaldrons, of 28 cwt. each, annually, andoccupying a subterraneous area of 22 m. inlength, by half as much in breadth. Thereare also some extensive iron-works in thenorthern parts; and the western districtproduces a considerable quantity of lead,mill-stones, and grindstones. The exportsof coal, salt, and different commodities, atSund

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