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Title: A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial ..
Year: 1776 (1770s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: London: : Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by J. Towers, and by R. Baldwin
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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quay to take in butter, cheefe, andother goods for London, which renders this place not inconfider-able. Mar§hfield is 104 miles diftant from London, in the roadto Briftol, and on the borders of Wiltftiire. It is governed bya bailiff, and confifts chiefly of one ftreet of old buildings, neara mile long ; it has a large church and an alms-houfe, with achapel belonging to it, well endowed, for eight poor people.Here is alfo a charity fchool, maintained by the Lord of the Ma-nor. This town carries on a confiderable trade in cloth and malt,and is famous for its cakes. Great Dean, or Michael Dean, is the principaltown in the Foreft of Dean, and is diftant from London 116miles. It confifts chiefly of one ftreet, and has a good church,with a handfome fpire ; its principal manufacture was formerlycloth, but now it is pins; the hills round this town aboundwith iron ore, and there are feveral furnaces for melting it, andforges for beating the iron into flats: the woikmen are very in- duftrious
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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 279 duftrious in difcovering (he beds of the old cinders, which notbeing fully exhaufted of the metal, are purchafed of the ownersof the land at a good price, and being burnt again in the fur-naces, afford better iron than the ore new dug from themines. WofTON under Edge (lands on a pleafant and fruitfuleminence, at the diftance of J08 miles from London. Thechief magiftrate who is chofen yearly at the court leer, is calleda mayor, and is ever after an alderman. It is a pretty town,,and has a handfome church, with feveral monuments in it of the-family of Berkeley. There is at this place a free-fchool, and;an alms-houfe for fix poor men and fix women. The town isfupplied with water, which was brought hither at the expenceof an alderman of London, Hugh Perry, Lfq. Wotton hasbeen long noted for making woollen cloth; and its parifh is j 2miles in circuit. Newent took its name from an inn called the New-Inn*which was fet up for the accommodation of paffengers on the

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