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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
nd co. boundedon theN. by Huntingdonshire and North-amptonshire, on the W.by Buckingham-shire, on the S. by the same county andthat of Hertford, and on the E. by Hertfordand Cambridge. Its limits are winding andirregular, and its only natural ones are theOuse for a short space on the E. and W.and a rivulet on the S.W. border. Its formis nearly oval, about 36 m. long, and from18 to 22 broad, being 145 miles in circum-ference, and containing about 296,320square acres, having 80,000 acres in courseof tillage, and 168,000 acres in pasturage.It comprises 124 parishes, with 10 market-towns, in which are 13,640 houses and70,213 inhabitants, being 33,171 males,and 37,042 females, of whom 4155 familiesare returned as being employed in tradeand manufactures, and 9131 in agriculture. Plate 1. ;1 / whieh is laid down everv Varith andT/ae*.. ^ Containing upwards- of 30 Souses. J/ar/eet Towns. M> Parishes. a*+ Iri/iaJ)? Tlouses.3j.640£j jri/ia/ntants. jo.zjj v. Square Acres. 2J&370
Text Appearing After Image:
Explanation. ^Cities. Tofns. 161 Borough*, te number of .)/, in/-,-r., t/iey Se/ut /,Ilir/iuiiinif. n faris/i or //are eon ta inino a/*a ,ii-,/. ,•/ /,t houses. Tiun/u/.e Roads.Itirers. noundary of Counties. Boundary m Hundreds. t~m.\,n-io,//>/e lofto/s./ii. i /tat/ Urn .,- /•uottshed A,- H./i.IIAMUrr /:/../,e Mart.i lane i.S -1 BED BED Under the Romans, this district was in-habited by the Catieuchlani. It is in theNorfolk circuit, province of Canterbury,and bishopric of Lincoln; and is dividedinto nine hundreds, viz. Barford, Biggles-wade, Clifton, Flitt, Manshead, Iledborne,Stodden, Willey, and Wixamtree. Its prin-cipal rivers are, the Ouse, the Ivel,tke Lea,and the Ouzel. The Ouse has been madenavigable to Bedford, and divides the coun-ty into two parts ; in its course it receivesseveral smaller streams. The face of thecountry is in general varied with smallhills and valleys, and affords a few exten-sive level tracts. On the south, the ridgeof chalk-hills rises to a consider

Note About Images