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Rh BECKINGTON. 217 BEDALE. thwap. of Bassetlaw, in the co. of Nottingham, 3 miles to 10 W. of Gainsborough, and 4 N. of Sturton railway sfc on. It is situated on the border of Lincolnshire, on thwst bank of the river Trent. The living is a vie. in 10 dioc. of Lincoln, val. 110, in the patron, of tho Puendary of Southwell. The church is dedicated to 11 Saints. The AVesleyan and Primitive Methodists ha: chapels here. There" is a free school with a small eniwment. Beckingham was the birthplace of Dr. A .iam Howcll, author of a History of the World and ot: r works. He died in 1683. The Duke of Newcastle is rd of the manor. ECKINGTON, a par. in the hund. of Frome, in the co >f Somerset, 3 miles to the N.E. of Frome. Bath is its ost town. It lies on the confines of AViltshire, on the i' tho river Frome, and includes tho hamlet of liige. This place was formerly the seat of a considerable ch i manufacture, and woollens are still made to a small ex at. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Bath and AY Is, of the val., with the rect. of Sanderwick, which is Sa.sbury. The church is dedicated to St. Gregory.^ It 'a monumental brass of the year 1475, an ancient
 * u xed to it, of 540, in the patron, of the Rev. S. L.
 * n:il and Sunday schools. The parochial charities it to 23 a year. II ' K JAY, a tnshp. in tho par. of Clungunford, hu. of Purslow, in the co. of Salop, 8 miles to tho V. of idlow. K 'IvLEY, a par. partly in the hund. of Bullingdon, . of Oxford, and partly in the hund. of Asheudon, i. of Buckingham, 5 miles to the N.E. of Oxford, town. It includes the hmlt. of Horton-with- ley. A Roman way passed through the parish, and ':or belonged to King Alfred. The living is a t. uar. in the dioe. of Oxford, val. 112, in the in e early English style, is dedicated to St. Mary, and ci>! lins monuments of the Cookes, of Studloy Priory. i t ' are some almshouses founded by one of that family, tht jcome of which is now about 90 a year. A castle '1 in this place in the reign of Henry II., of which are still some vestiges. The chief residence is . Park, a little to the cast of tho village. '.< KLEY, a par. in the hund. of Goldspur, rape of .s, in the co. of Sussex, miles to tho N.AV. of Staplehurst is its post town. It is situated on the f'i bank of the river Rother, which here forms tho il:uy between Kent and Sussex. The district con- t:u some iron-sand, and ironworks wero formerly lished here. Hops are cultivated in the parish. living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Chichester, of thu vubf i'851, in the patron, of the Master and Fellows of iity College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to AUBaints. There is a chapel belonging to the AVes- tCKS, a hmlt. in tho par. of MarshGcld, hund. of i Thornbury, in the co. of Gloucester, not far from field. ICCKSIDE, a vil. in the -ward of AUerdale-tihovo- iglass. KCKWITH, a hmlt. in the par. of Pannall, wap. of Lo ir Claro, in the West Riding of the co. of York, 5 mill from Ripley. itCONTREE HUNDRED, one of the 20 hunds. or :pdivisions of the co. of Essex, situated in the south div. f the co., and bounded on the N. by the hunds. ot A iltham and Ongar, on the E. by the lib. of Havering, on ' S. by the river Thames, and on theAV. by tho co. of ddlesex. It contains the pars, of Barking, East OL. i. Ham, AVest Ham, Dagenham, Little Ilford, Low Leyton, Walthamstow, Wanstead, and Woodford St. Mary. The forests of Lower Epping and Hainault are within this hundred, which comprises an area of about 36,000 acres. BECTIVE, a par. in the bar. of Upper Navan, in the co. of Heath, prov. of Leinster, Ireland, 3 miles to the N.E. of Trim. It is situated in a fertile and cultivated district on the west bank of the river Boyne. It was the site of an abbey of the Cistercian order, founded about the middle of the 12th century by one of the kings of Meath. This house was largely endowed, and flourished till the Dissolution. The abbot was a lord in parliament. At the close of the 12th century a curious quarrel occurred between the monks of Bective and the canons of St. Thomas's abbey, Dublin, concerning the possession of the remains of Hugh do Lacy, a baron who came over to Ireland with Henry II., became governor of Meath, and on his d_cath was buried at Bective abbey, his head, however, being deposited at Dublin. The question was decided in favour of the latter place. In 1039 this parish was granted by Charles I. to Lord Chancellor Bolton,in whose family it remains. Excellent limestone abounds here, and is used both for building and farming purposes. The living is an impropriate rect. in the dioc. of Meath. There is no church. The ruins of the abbey stand by the river, and consist of several square towers, part of the great hull, and some fine Gothic arches and sculptured pillars which formed part of the cloisters. There are remains of an old church or chapel. Bective House, the seat of the Boltons, is a modern mansion standing in pleasant grounds on the banks of the Boyne. Bective gives the title of earl to the Marquis of Headfort. BECTIVE BRIDGE, a vil. in the par. of Balsoon, bar. of Lower Deece, in the co. of Meath, prov. of Leinster, Ireland, 4 miles to the N.E. of Trim. It ia seated on the east bank of the Boyne, which is here crossed by a stone bridge connecting the village with Bective on the opposite side of the river. Cattle fairs arc held here on tho 16th May and the 1st November. BEDALE, a par. and market town, partly in the eastern div. of tho wap. of Hang, and partly in the wap. of Hallikeld, in tho North Riding of the co. of York, 8 miles to the S.W. of Northallerton, 38 miles by railway from York, and 229 miles by the Great Northern line from London. It is a station on the Northallerton and Leyburn branch of the North-Eastern railway. The town is seated in a beautiful and fertile valley on the banks of a small stream of the same name, a branch of the river Swale, into which it falls near Scruton. The par. comprises the chplries. of Bnrrill-cum-Cowling and Crakehall, tho tnshps. of Aiskew, Firby, and Lang- thorne, and tho limit, of Rands-Grange, all, except Langthome, in the wap. of Hang. The district, which is in a good state of cultivation, abounds in pleasant sci-nery, and has long been celebrated for its horse-breed- ing establishments. The town consists chiefly of one street, and the houses are not regularly built. Bcdale is the scat of a Poor-law Union, and contains the Union poorhouse. There is a savings-bank. Tho living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Ripon, of the val. of 2,200 gross, or 1,700 net, in the patron, of H. Beresford- Peirse, Esq., and Lord Beaumont alternately. The church is dedicated to St. Gregory. It is a large edifice in the early English style of architecture, with an em- battled tower, and frequently served as a place of retreat during the border wars. It contains an interesting monument to Brien Fitz-Alan, who was governor of Scotland in the 13th century, and is supposed to have founded Bedalc Castle, which stood near the church. There are no ruins of the castle ; but its site has been traced by the foundations discovered within the grounds of Bedale Hall. The Methodists have a chapel in the town, and there is a Roman Catholic chapel at Aiskew. There are charitable endowments amounting to 247 per annum, consisting chiefly of the revenue of a school, a hospital, and. almshouses. The endowments of the free grammar school, founded it is said before the reign of Henry VIII., are now partly applied to the support of the National school. The hospital was established in
 * Hi. of the Rev. T. L. Cooke. The church, an edifice
 * t, in the co. of Cumberland, 8 miles to the S. of