A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations
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- Royal College of Physicians of London - Contributor
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1831 - S. Lewis and Co., London
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English
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- Internet Archiveb28406679_0004
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- Open LibraryOL25911144M
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England at the start of the 1830s, a period of great changes.Turnpike roads and canals were overtaken by the coming of the railways. Towns are described, their history and charities recorded along with the census figures for many parishes and villages. It is fascinating to compare the different editions and see how places developed.
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