Identifier: topographicaldic01capp (find matches)
Title: A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom ..
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Capper, Benjamin Pitts
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Publisher: London : Printed for Richard Phillips
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Duke University Libraries

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under them is a large tract of st^rileland, which gives it a very dreary appear-ance; though the chalky enrth is used, as amanui-e for other grounds. Fronrthe south-east corner to the middle of the county, nmsa line of good dairy land : the western sideis, for the most part, flat and sandy, andchiefly cultivated in the Norfolk mode. Thenorth and east parts have a deep sciil, whichproduces large crops of corn, and is furnish-ed vvitii a considerable quantity of wooil.There arc many parks about the principalseals. - The princi\:al prodixcts are corn andbutter; much of the former of which is sentdown Uiie Ouse to Lynn, and the latter goesto London by land carriage ; some ; arishesare particularly cultivated for .vegetables.Its most valuable mineral product is fullersenrth, a kiud of mixed clay of great use incleansing woollens, which is found :nore parti-cularly in tlie neighbourhood olWoburn. Thiscoimty has very little benefit fro;., trade andOianufactures; the poor are chiefly employed
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J^ibtUhedJeoiKi.iScS, hy JtJhi^p^ Jtridtfe Jtr^rt BFart/rw^ Xamit^n *Vmarket t .wnsnre Ampthill, Beilford, Biggleswade, Dun-ftaiile, Leisiiton-Buzzard, Luton, Pottou,gbefibrd, Tuddington, and Woburn. In thiscounty are many remains of Roman, Saxon,and Norman antiquities, and a few Romanstations, viz. Sa/idi/s near iotton, tlie Mn-gjoiW!(W of Antoninus, bjothers supposed tohave been the ancient Salencr, containing 30acres, where many urns, coins, &c. haveI n dug up ; and another at Maiden Bower, Ifiom Dunstable, of about 9 acres, whichV uuden supposes to have been a Roman sta-T :, from corns of the emperors havingla foimd there. Leighton-Buzzald, or v.deseEt, is supposed to have been a nan camp: and a Roman amphitheatreII. >v be traced near Bradford ^lagna. TheIv iuaa road called Ickenild-street, crossestliecoimty; enters at Leig

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