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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er chiefly grown is oak, ash,beech, elm, &c. The highest ground inNorthampionshire is in the neighbourhoodof Daventry, where the rivers Nen andCherwell, flowing into the Eastern sea,and the Learn into the Western, rise withina small distance of each other. A littlefurther northward, the Avon and the Wel-land, running into opposite seas, have theirsprings. About Towcester, in the south,the country is hilly and the soil intermixedwith clay and a sort of coarse grit-stone,lis principal river is the Nine or Nen,which, rising in the west, flows first acrossthe county to the eastern side, and thenturning northward, runs the whole lengthof the county. From Northampton it ismade navigable, and brings up coals, whichare sold at a high price. It receivt s manysmall streams rising from the north-westside, and at Peterborough it crosses tothe Isle of Ely, and falls into the sea inLincolnshire. This extreme part of thecounty is very liable to inundations, andforms the commencement of the fenny
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NOR ENGLAND AND WALES. NOR .Tact, -which extends through the Isle ofEly to the Lincolnshire washes. The Ousejust touches on the S.E. extremity of thecounty, forming a tract of rich meadowsabout Stony-Scratford. Its products arethe same as those of other farming coun-ties, but it is peculiarly celebrated for itsgrazing-land, particularly the tract lyingfrom Northampton to the Leicestershireborder. Horned cattle are here fed to anextraordinary size, and many horses of thelarge black breed are reared. Much ofthe arable land is still in open fields, andmany sheep are fed on the higher grounds.Considerable quantities of woad for thedyers use are also cultivated. Exceptlime-stone, the mineral productions arebut few, and of no great value. This coun-ty is not remarkable for trade or manufac-ture, except for boots and shoes, whichare made in various parts for exportation.At Daventry is a large manufactory of silkhose. The exports of the county are wheat,flour, beans, limber, bark, fat cattle,

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