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Rh ..LD. 130 oro Lcthcnand B.,.ah. In 16-15, a tattle was fougln .illago betv. rocs, under Mmitrosc, which the latter I. ii, i hi ilo of horses, ore inber. The par. has an area <ut 30 square miles, and contains both a Free and a irch. I.Hi'll J.I), a quMid tacra par. in the par. of East- wood and e v, ScoUand, not for from Pollock- bhaws. The cotton manufacture is carried on Thu living is in the p: - 4cy, and in the gift of il comniuni AULDll separate par. in the co. of i; now forms part of the par. of Whitatrk. AULT-HUCKNALL, a par. in the hund. of Scars- dale, in the co. of Derby, ' 'lie 8.E. of Chos- town, and 5| N.W. of Mansfield. It is situated iu :i pleasant country, mid contains the hinlts. .vthorac, Stainsby, Hurdwick, llarstoft, and Ast- with. The living is a vie. 1 in the dioc. of Lichli iliu vaL of 168, in the gift of the Duke of Devon who is lord of the manor. The church contains a monu- ment to Anne, first Countess of Devonshire, who died in 1598, and also one in memory of the philo Thomas Hobbcs, who died here in 1079. In this parish ia Hardwk-k Hall, the scat of the Duke of Devonshire, a fine old mansion in the Eli/a i. erected in 1570 by Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury. In iU architecture, furniture, and decorations, which have been carefully presc:. million, we have 10 of the taste and manners < old < ] 'reduced it as can bo wished. It - on the summit of a lofty ridge, from which the view over the surrounding country i- ivc, and in a line- park abounding in grand old oaks. A more than ] <>r f.imily i to this mansion, as one of the iiile in the custody of the Earl of Shrewsbury. The principal apartments arc the hall, which is tapestried, and now adorned with the statuo of Mury, by Westmacott; the chapel, also hung with tapestry; the dining-room, the mantel-piece of which is carved and bears a pious inscription; the spacious state-room, tapestried and canopied; the great picture gallery, which mn:i along tlio whole eastern , 116 feet in length, with 18 < iudows, and iiiing a very large and curious collection of por- aii'l my-' sons. Am .... i.r cjn. hand her great rival Mary, Kidiard 111, .lames V.,"L:nly Jane igh, &c. There is also the which was appr . In T
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ami tLio of the windows in thi -i rise to the proverbial expression, " Ilardwirk 1 window than wall." Not far oil' arc some remains of a much more ancient hall, in which ' night when on ' ALNIiV. a limit, in the par. of Castle Bytham, in thi
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4 miles to t mlunl. The liv. is apcrpot cur. unit'il will! : Canby. Al nlhnrn, parts ol Host'. In. -i n.il' i. the s., i living is a rect. in tie. in the pati J. A .ill' h is in tho early 1 , Thomas;' ,: con. i'SUAI.K. a ril. in ran, in tl H. Seotlai. Hill of Or linnd some tun leg to 1 in rn, a 1TJ- C.llle I .:i times. Thu passage is made to Jeachlcy at the mouth of t .nl! two miles long. It was at that tin: i xlward I., with the Prince Llew lidd. The listrict is chiefly marshy, but has ma t in- erest for the geologist. Tho living i cur. tho vie. of Henbtiry. Al'M 1-il.l.. *!'., a par. and market i ,-in div. of the huml. of Powder, in the co. <>; 28 miles to the S.V. of Launcostmi, 40 i'n.ui 1'lyn UK! 93 from KM t. r. It is situated on the coast of^H ana western exti ' he county, and M of very large extent, comprising 12,125 acn>, new parishes of Charlestown and < 'ormod out of it, under Sir R. Peel's Chun h }'., ment Act. Owing to its position in a disti i mineral wealth, the town, originally a poor village, |B risen to considerable importance. It was once o^H ice: iU present name is suppotcd to be t" that of the hermit St. Austol. Durii war the troops of the Earl of Essex were i|iun ind the town w.i^ taken by Charles I. in 1 town occupies the eastern slope of a hill, at the fw which flows a sm:i' It is not im-irp under the government of the parochial officen an' The streeta ore narrow, partly i lighted with gas; but great improvements have made during the last ten years, by the n.'tioiiof houses and handsome shops i < t, besides private residences in the suburbs. Tho T : house, whici structure overlooking the town on the north sidd t ly built, I*"' v. lii.-h is a capacious i the (own, the other : wn, 1 several smolting-houses for tho grain tin which is I in this county. Harbours have been con- Charlestown, Par, and Pentcwan, which n with the town by tram railways. Charlc.-' ilock and a shipyard, and Par harbour has a good 1 water. Coals are imported fi > ore and china-clay of the district ai substance is so remarkably pure and a lily tint many thousand tons are annua.. the potteries in the North of England;> to tho continent and Ann-nc.t for making can^^l I. aching, and other pi.. -sels are engaged in tlii> i in the pilchard fi^li rv. Ti in tho distnct is gi-anite, lich i v< ^l especially of tin. eopp! r, lead, and i- BOinc very productive iron i valuable tin stream-works. In one ol tic small mid, and in south of the town, topaz
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Polgooth, t the i; J mil. town :in.| |..irlly in another pu* I'Jn l.ithoms in depth. riche iiinmit of CarclaM a wild brown moor, a 1 a mine, being shaped 1; It is I posed to have licin in re than -Id' until ten years as;.. . In-ivcly, but i lay, of which an mum washed from the i! 1' which its I ist hollow, exravati 4 in the ' 1 ...ut a mill- in circumference, all workers, MIV.IIIC-. and mills, and presents a I ling magical contrast to the sitrroundin phyry, valuable porcelain ami frees',.: r products of the district. mines furnish employment to more than a thousand] ions. A few hands are cng^igi d in tin 1 in linen bleaching. St. Ai: -till is a I . and had tho Blackmoor court, tho ]