Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road and Railway Guide Book Through England and Wales: With a General Travelling Map ; Charts of Roads, Railroads, and Interesting Localities; Engraved Views of Picturesque Scenery; and a Comprehensive General Index, Embracing a List of Hotels and InnsA. and C. Black, 1859 - 544 pàgines |
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Pàgina 43
... town of Wilton , at the conflux of the Wiley and the Nadder , long noted for the manufacture of carpets ; but this business has now declined . The town returns one member to Parliament . Pop . 1851 , 8607. Adjoining the town is Wilton ...
... town of Wilton , at the conflux of the Wiley and the Nadder , long noted for the manufacture of carpets ; but this business has now declined . The town returns one member to Parliament . Pop . 1851 , 8607. Adjoining the town is Wilton ...
Pàgina 44
... town , on a the capital of Dorset , a town 119 of great antiquity on the Frome . Its ancient name was Durnovaria , signifying the passage of the river . It was strongly fortified . Several Roman antiquities have been discovered in it ...
... town , on a the capital of Dorset , a town 119 of great antiquity on the Frome . Its ancient name was Durnovaria , signifying the passage of the river . It was strongly fortified . Several Roman antiquities have been discovered in it ...
Pàgina 46
... town , has a town hall - an ancient Gothic building , for- merly a chapel - a handsome church , & c . Chard was the scene of the defeat of the Royalists under Col. Pen- ruddock during the civil wars . Pop . 1851 , 2291 . Stockland ...
... town , has a town hall - an ancient Gothic building , for- merly a chapel - a handsome church , & c . Chard was the scene of the defeat of the Royalists under Col. Pen- ruddock during the civil wars . Pop . 1851 , 2291 . Stockland ...
Pàgina 62
... town has acquired a considerable name . The country around the town is rather flat . The roads from Southampton to Poole , and from Salisbury to Christchurch pass through Ringwood . At the distance of nine miles from Ringwood is the ...
... town has acquired a considerable name . The country around the town is rather flat . The roads from Southampton to Poole , and from Salisbury to Christchurch pass through Ringwood . At the distance of nine miles from Ringwood is the ...
Pàgina 63
... town , and pleasantly situated . It is a corporate town and Parliamentary borough , and has returned two members to Parliament since the reign of Elizabeth . The parish church , dedicated to Thomas à Becket , contains many handsome ...
... town , and pleasantly situated . It is a corporate town and Parliamentary borough , and has returned two members to Parliament since the reign of Elizabeth . The parish church , dedicated to Thomas à Becket , contains many handsome ...
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Black's Picturesque Tourist and Road and Railway Guide Book Through England ... Adam and Charles Black (Firm) Visualització completa - 1857 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
12 miles Abbey Ambleside ancient antiquity bank Bart Bath beautiful Bishop borough Branch Bridge BRIST Bristol building built Buttermere called Canal Castle celebrated chapel church contains Cockermouth Coniston Court Crag cross Cumberland curious Duke Earl east Edward eminence enter erected Exeter extensive Fell formerly Gothic Grasmere Hall handsome Helvellyn Henry Henry VIII Hill House Junction St Kendal Keswick King lake Langdale late Leeds LEFT FROM LOND Lodge London Lord Loughrigg Fell M.P. Pop magnificent Manchester mansion manufacture members to Parliament miles distant monuments mountains neighbourhood numerous parish Park Patterdale Penrith picturesque Pike Priory Railway reign remains residence RIGHT FROM LOND river river Avon river Calder river Wye road Roman ruins Saxon scenery seat side situated Skiddaw station stone Street summit Tarn Thames thence three miles tourist tower town trade vale valley vicinity village Water Westmorland Whitehaven William Windermere Wood
Passatges populars
Pàgina 283 - HOPE rules a land for ever green : All powers that serve the bright-eyed queen Are confident and gay ; Clouds at her bidding disappear ; Points she to aught ? the bliss draws near, And fancy smooths the way. Not such the land of wishes...
Pàgina 297 - Of vast circumference and gloom profound This solitary Tree ! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay ; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.
Pàgina 300 - Gavel; for on its highest point is a small triangular receptacle in the native rock, which, the shepherds say, is never dry. There we might have slaked our thirst plenteously with a pure and celestial liquid, for the cup or basin, it appears, has no other feeder than the dews of heaven, the showers, the vapours, the hoar frost, and the spotless snow. While we were gazing around, 'Look,' I exclaimed, 'at yon ship upon the glittering sea!
Pàgina 271 - And not a moonbeam enters here. But they without its light can see The chamber carved so curiously, Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain, For a lady's chamber meet : The lamp with twofold silver chain Is fastened to an angel's feet.
Pàgina 297 - THERE is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale, Which to this day stands single, in the midst Of its own darkness, as it stood of yore...
Pàgina 226 - Their temperature is lower than those of .'Mli, and they are more agreeable for bathing. They are administered internally to persons in whom the digestive organs are feeble, and are found very efficacious in the cure of gout and rheumatism. The Crescent at Buxton is an extensive and elegant structure, comprising two hotels, a library, an assemblyroom, &c.
Pàgina 312 - Cushions or tufts of moss, parched and brown, appear between the huge blocks and stones that lie in heaps on all sides to a great distance, like skeletons or bones of the earth not needed at the creation, and there left to be covered with never-dying lichens, which the clouds and dews nourish ; and adorn with colours of vivid and exquisite beauty.
Pàgina 237 - About half a mile from the station is the large and populous town of Warrington, on the north bank of the Mersey in Lancashire. It is one of the oldest towns in Lancashire, and was a Roman station. A bridge was built here over the Mersey by the Earl of Derby, for the purpose of enabling Henry VII. to pay him a visit with greater convenience. The principal manufactures are cottons, shoes, and fustians, and in the vicinity are pin, glass, and iron-works.
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Pàgina 296 - ... exposure, and its consecrated connexion with the final hopes and fears of the adjacent pastoral hamlet, — but for these considerations the first movement of a stranger's feelings would be towards loud laughter ; for the...