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manufactories. Lowestoft has lately been much frequented as a bathing place, for which its sands are well adapted. The town is greatly indebted to Sir SM. Peto, Bart., of Somerleyton Hall, who purchased the harbour in 1844, and originated a company for the improvement of the port and town, the deepening of Lake Lothing, &c. He carried also the branch railway from Reedham to Lowestoft, thus placing the latter in a very advantageous commercial position. Pop. 1851, 6580.

GREAT YARMOUTH, a considerable seaport town and a place of great antiquity. The old town is situated on the eastern bank of the Yare, and is connected with the new town, called Little Yarmouth, by means of a bridge. The old town had walls, and consists of four parallel steeets, and of about 150 narrow cross lanes, called rows. The best dwelling-houses are situated along the quay, which is considered the finest in the kingdom, having in the centre a noble promenade, planted on each side with trees. The principal buildings are the old church, erected in 1123, and recently restored, several chapels, banks, a town-hall, theatre, assembly-room, bathing-house, &c. There are several charitable institutions, the principal of which is the Seamen's Hospital, and extensive barracks, containing a large armoury. There is an extensive manufactory for crapes and other silk goods. Ship-building, and the various trades connected with it, are carried on to some extent. The rivers Yare, Waveney, and Bure, which unite in Breydon Water, contiguous to the town, secure to Yarmouth an extensive inland trade. The exportation of grain and malt is considerable; but the principal business of this port consists of the herring and mackerel fisheries. An extensive timber trade with the Baltic is also carried on, and Yarmouth Roads have long been the principal rendezvous for the collier trade. Customs Revenue, 1850, £38,372:11:11. It is one of the termini of the Eastern Counties Railway, and thus holds communication with all important parts of the kingdom. Two M.P. Pop. 1851, 30,879. Near Yarmouth is a beautiful fluted column, 140 feet high, in memory of Lord Nelson.

SOUTHEND (Essex) is situated on an acclivity at the mouth of the Thames opposite to Sheerness. It has of late years risen into some importance as a bathing-place. Here is an assembly-room, a theatre, library, meeting-house, baths, bathing machines, &c. Near this place a stone marks the termination of the jurisdiction of the corporation of London over the Thames. Steam vessels sail thither regularly during summer.

On the Naze, a projecting piece of land, on the east coast of Essex, 18 miles from Colchester, is the village of Walton, of late in some repute as a bathing place.

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HARWICH, a railway station, 60 situated on a tongue of land opposite the mouth of the Stour and the Orwell, has a spacious harbour, capable of

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of the line. It was a place of importance during the war. as almost the only means of communication with the north of Europe. The chief employments are ship-building and other kindred trades

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furnished with storehouses. &c., a church, town hall and gaol, custom bouse, &c. la 68 summer it is much frequented as a bathing-place. Landguard fort, defending the harbour, was erected by 691 James I. 2 M.P. Pop. 1851.

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4 miles across the Orwell. Felixstowe, Sir. S. Fludget,

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CLXXIX. LONDON TO SOUTHEND, THROUGH BARKING, RAINHAM, STANFORD LE HOPE, AND HADLEIGH, 394 Miles.

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CLXXX. LONDON TO SOUTHEND THROUGH ROMFORD, BRENTWOOD, BILLERICAY, AND RAYLEIGH, 41 Miles.

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BILLERICAY is situ- 414 From Whitechapel Ch. ated on an eminence commanding fine views 23 to BRENTWOOD (p. 470) 18

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of the Thames and the coast of Kent. Here is a church said to have 18 been founded in the time of Edward III. The tower may be of that age, but the body of the 5 chapel is comparatively modern. Pop. 1284.

Shenfield.

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SOUTHEND (p. 479.)

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Rayleigh was formerly a town of some importance. It has an old 231 church, and some traces

of an old castle. 5 m. 33 distant is Rochford, near which is Rochford Hall, 361 where Anne Boleyne was

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CLXXXI. LONDON TO BEDFORD, BY RAILWAY, 63 Miles.

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CLXXXIII. LONDON TO WARE AND HERTFORD, BY RAILWAY, 26 Miles.

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Hertford, the county town of Herts, is situated on the south bank of the river Lea. A castle was erected here in the tenth century, of which a few remains still exist. But the present castle was!

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