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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ch, that it was acommon clause in the indentures of chil-dren apprenticed in Hereford, that theyshould not be compelled to eat salmon morethan twice in a week. The Lug rises inRadnorshire, and running past Leominsterreceives, near that town, the Arrow, andfalls into the Wye at Mordiford. The Mun-now rises on the east of the Hatterel moun-tains, and after receiving several smallstreams, becomes the boundary betweenHerefordshire and Monmouthshire, andfalls into the Wye at Monmouth. TheArrow has its source in Radnorshire, and,as just mentioned, falls into the Lug nearLeominster. The Frome rises in the northpart of the county and falls into the Lugnear its junction with the Wye. The Temepasses alternately through parts of thiscounty and Shropshire, and falls into theSevern. Pearls have occasionally beenfound in the muscle shells of the Teme.The Leddon rises above Bosbury, andpassing Ledbury, to which it gives name,enters Kington. A canal runs acrossthe north part of the county from Shi op
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HEP ENGLAND AND WALES. HER shire, passing Leominster to Gloucester-shire, and falls into the Severn. Somesprings on the Herefordshire side of Mal-vern hills were formerly deemed medicinal,and several petrifying, or, perhaps, incrust-ings prings are met with in the hilly partsof the county, which contain limestone. Asmall well, near Richards-castle, in Wol-phey hundred, discharges small bones whendisturbed, resembling the vertebrae andother bones of frogs. The returns madeunder the act of 55th Geo. III. report thatthe total amount of property assessed in1815, was £604,614, and the rental of land£453,607; and the amount of poors-rates,for the year 1815, on an average of threeyears, was £95,491, being at the rate of3s. )f<J. per pound, on the total amount ofassessed property. The scale of mortality,was as 1 to 63 of the existing population.Agriculture is the leading feature of thecounty, and its principal produce consistsof wheat, oats, barley, beans, and peas.Hop plantations preva

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