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Rh BURTON-TJPON-TOEirr. 432 BURWASH. was tin a hi ndownii nli B 1 Vilii.ini 1'ai;. 1, :in whom tin manor now us. The lord of tin 1 in ' " tin pri- frranted to the abbot*. Tin Tn-nt, which 1. two channel tin* -old bridge marly n third lit' a mile in length, built o I' stone, with thirty-six Tidation is believed to haw- b. en coeval with tliat nf tin abbey. It wa repaired in tin reign of Hi my II., and a chapt I wan erected at tin wot end 1'}' i.l 1 1., in .-"mm. inor.ition, it is said, of his victory the Earl of Lancaster, who attempted t" hold the passage of tin.- river against the king. During tin- i-ivil wur in the reign of Charles I., Burton was ww ial tinn - taken and retaken by the royalists and purliamentarians ; and the old church and the manor-house were much damaged. The town ha- two principal sin its. one of which runs parallel with the river, and is crossed at right angles by the other. The streets are pav< d and lighted with gas, thi' houses mostly well built, and the town abundantly supplied with water. There is a hand- some townhall with assembly rooms, erected by tin Marquis of Anglescu. In the 16th century this place was noted for its alabaster works. It is now chiefly 1 1 -1> bratcd for its ale, which is named after the town, sive breweries, especially those of Messrs. Bass and Co. and Messrs. Allsopp. It was not till about 1700 that the first brewery was established here, and it is only within the lust fifteen yean that the town has assumed" its pre- sent aspect of one vast brewery. Besides several minor establishments, Messrs. Allso'pp have just meted a colossal brew i ry adjoining the railway station, which in constructed to convert no less than 130,000 quarters of malt . iiimally into ale; and Messrs. Bass and Co. have facilities for brewing 4,000 barrels a day, for which they pa t..tln excise near 160,000 a year in malt and hop duty. The hitter firm has also extensive malting establishment.- and a steam cooperage recently constructed. There are also cotton-mills and iron-works. The conveyance of goods is facilitated by the Grand Trunk canal, which meets the Trent near the town. The government of the town is administered, under n recent Act of 1'arliaim nt, by commissioners elected by the different wards. Hi in y VIII. conferred on the townsmen the privilege emption from serving in the office of sheriff or on juries. Burton is the seat of a Poor-law Union, the head of a I 'i unity Court district, and a polling-place for the north division of the county of Stafford. The Union poor- house is in the township of Hominglow. The living is a pel-pet, cur. in the dioc. of I.ichfiel.l, val. .Cl'.i'j, in the 1 .. 1 1 ion. of the Marquis of Anglesca, who is lay impropriator. The church, a modern edifice in the Italian style, with a tower, is dedicated to SS. Man- and Modwen, and was erected in 17-0, on the site of the ancient church, whieh was taki !i iL.wn on in count of the injury it had sustained in the Civil War. St. Modwen, the patron t the abbey, was an abbess expelled from one of 1 1 ish monasteries in the 9th centur}'. She came '..-land, and is said to have performed a skilful or miraculous cure on Alfred the Great, and On lli< privilege of an asylum from Ethelwolf, his latin r. Tw. i have been erected in thi in !-_'.;, ilidi..ited to tin' Holy Trinity ; the other in INi::, mil. d ( hrist Chinch. The former is situated in li.-iiiliiiL'low-stn-i t, and is i onsidi red a good example of the florid (iothie stvle ; tin hitter is in tin form of I and in tin -tyle. The- livings are Ix.th perpet. curs.,* the formci in the patron, of tin Man|iii- of Anglesca; tin latter, al. !/><>, in tin- patron, ol tin rtOB. There an < h:i|>< Is hi-loimiiig t<> tin- man Calln and 1'rimitive M.-tln di-t-. Tin r. i- :i in > gi.nnniar school, founded by William lleaiic, Ahl,ot ot Burton, in which, from i ndownn nt, is about 460 i. and was n-adju-tecl by. .id. i o| I 'hali- ccry m 18M. Another in. s.ln-ol. -, was establish..; ,,il in 17-* by Itiehaul All-opp. end ha* ii i:^iii.-.l and sul>M-<|uent Mncd tical " In Id The endowments of about 30 a year. There are also Na i'.riti.-h schools; ahn.-hou-. s |.,| six poor i I, .undid by l-ai.-n 1'aiK'i in l'i.il,uitha p. i annum; . Elizabeth 1'awlctt in 1591, with a revenue of ab There are several other charities. The annual the charitable endowments of the pai i.-h is above J The town possesses a subscription library and re room, a dispensary, and a savings-bank. Of tin nothing? r mains but sunn the chnn I. | d the manor-1 or abbot's apartments, which is, however, much i " Besides these ruins and the venerable bridge, But several other objects of interest for their antiquity. piincip.il are the old house of the prebendary, the a scat of the Every family, and, near tin town, tin mill erected before the Norman Conquest, and nn ntioned in Domesday Book. Isaac Hawkins Browne, a -riti-r, who obtained some note in the IMth century, i born at Burton in 1700. Thursday is the inuiki t <" Fairs, chiefly for the sale of cattle and i i on the 6th r:cbruary, the fith April, Holy Thursday, tii 16th July, and the 20th October. The lust is a n horse fair, and continues about a w 1 1 k BURTON-UPON-UKK, a tn.-hp. in the par. of sham, wap. of East Hang, in tin North Hiding of t" of Tork, 1 mile to the N. of Masliam. A castle anc existed here, which was the seat of the Earls of. marie, who held the lordship of Holdcrness. Its site! now called Aldborou^h. BUKTON. V1->T. :. par. in tin North Clay i the wap. of Bassetlaw, in the co. of Nottingham', 3 i tu tin S.W. of Gainsborough, its post town. It lies < the border of Lincolnshire, on tin V. side of the ] Trent, not far fioin the Main In si- r. Sin theld, and i-olnshire railway. 'Hie living i.-, a pi rpet. cur. in ' dioc. of Lincohi, val. 66, in the patron, of John row, Esq. The church is dedicated to 8t. H parochial charities arc of .-mall am BURTON, WKST, a tythg. in the par. and liun&fl Bury, rape of Arundel, in !> I mill - tu the N. ol Arundel. It is near the ri. r Aiun. BUKTONWOOD, a chplry. in the ) ,, of AV.-,; ton, bund, of West Derby, in the co. ]ilat:- caster, 4 miles to tin N.W. ol Vaiiingt n, its postt The Liverpool and Manchester railway passes no The living is a perpet. cur. in tho d. worth 96, in the gift of tho Rector of W There is an endowed school with nn incom. year. BUl;V.l;liSI.KV, a chplry. in the par. of Bun' liund. of Broxton, in the co. palatine ot to the S.W. of Tarporley. Tattcnhall is it.- ITic Crewe nnd Chester branch of the London and N. Western railway runs a little northward of this p The living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of ( 60, in the patron, of trustees. Tho church, t 17-i">, is dcilii-atid to St. .Mm. Then tabli i m I., wine] its producing about 40 per a i. num. i; I 'l:V.irniN. a par. in the bund, ol St.. the co. of Salop, 10 miles to tl I'.riilgnorth is its post town. ThelhiM the dioo. of lien loid. al. 11-JN. in tl,, .1 Churton, ineumln nt. The clnr The principal residence is I Hall, tin -.at ol Vi.-eoimt liovne. I '.I' l:VASCi >T. Sf. Ui 81 01, r-ihshirc. r.l'l;VASH. a par. in the- huiul. of Hawk. . tending also int" lie Imnd-. ..I Hen! well, rape of HastiiiL'-, iii the co. of Sus-i -x. 7 n N.W. of Battle. HM: Green i- tin p. -t t,,n. It situated ill a hilly district on tin- liel Kother, tin Hi-tings branch of the South-Kastem Tin par. mi, tains -.,nie -Joo a. r. s of hop-, A i hali : yeart and nn attempt was made to render IJurwash a ft able watering-place, but without success, i -till call, d Kurwash I'.-tty Sessions, were f. in d to Hurst Un.ii some twenty years ago.
 * 'iid is brewed in enormous quantities in several exten-