Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A New Gazetteer, or Topographical Dictionary of the British Islands and Narrow Seas, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprising Concise Descriptions of About Sixty Thousand Places, Seats, Natural Features, and Objects of Note, Founded Upon the Best Authorities; With a Reference Under Every Name to the Sheet of the Ordnance Survey, as Far as Completed
Note - The Appendix to the 2nd volume contains a brief sketch of the three kingdoms, being, for the most part, a summary of the counties, with particulars derived from the latest Returns, and tabular views; also a Chronology of the chief events and persons mentioned in the Gazetteer, and an abstract of the results of the Census for 1851.
England, ireland, scotland, wales, which are referred from the body of the work to the Preface, have been placed in the Appendix to the Second vol.
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