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Rh VEPEE. 776 WESTBUEY. soil is sand and loam, on a subsoil of rock. The living is a cur. annexed to Llangarron. The church is dedi- cated to St. Weonard. The Wesleyans have a chapel. There are National and free schools ; the latter endowed with 20 per annum. Sir H. Hoskins, Bart., is lord of the manor. WEPEE, or WEPRA, a tnshp. in the par. of Northop, co. Flint, 4 milea N.W. of Hawarden. It is a subport to Chester, on the river Dee. WERBURGH, ST. See Hoo, co. Kent. WEEEHAM, a par. in the hund. of Clack-close, co. Norfolk, 1J mile N.W. of Stoke Ferry, and 5 miles E. of Downham Market. The village is situated on the road from Lynn to Bury St. Edmund's. A Benedictine priory was founded here in the reign of John by the Earl of Clare, as a cell to the abbey of Mountstroll, in France, but in 1321 was transferred to the abbey of West Dereham. Its revenue at the Dissolution was 7 2s. Sd. The living is a perpet. cur.* in the dioc. of Norwich, val. with that of Wretton annexed, 110. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. There is a Wcsleyan chapel and a village school. The charities produce about 40 per annum. WEEK. See WARK, co. Northumberland. WERNETH, a tnshp. in the par. of Stockport, hund. of Macclesfield, co. Chester, 4 miles N.E. of Stockport. It is situated on the right bank of the river Etherow, adjoining the Derbyshire border. It includes Gee Cross and Campstall, and has water communication by means of the Peak Forest canal and river Mersey. The inha- bitants are chiefly engaged in the collieries, cotton-mills, print works, and other manufactures of Stockport. WEENETH, an ecclesiastical district in the par. of Prestwich-cum-Oldham, hund. of Salford, co. Lancaster, 1 mile S.W. of Oldham. It is a station on the Lanca- shire and Yorkshire railway. It is a suburb of Oldham. WEER, a hmlt. in the par. of Llanarth, co. Cardigan, 3 miles S.W. of Aberaeron. WERRINGTON, a par. and tnshp. in the hund. of Black-Torrington, co. Devon, 2 miles N. of Launceston. It is situated on the road from Launceston to Stratton, near the river Tamar, which here divides the counties of Devon and Cornwall, and on the Bade canal. It is chiefly the property of the Duke of Northumberland, who occasionally resides at Werrington House, the old seat of the Morrices and Drakes, who formerly held the manor. There are mines of manganese. The living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Exeter, val. 220. The church is dedicated to SS. Martin and Giles. WEEEINGTON, a chplry. in the par. of Paston, co. Northampton, 4 miles N.W. of Peterborough. WEEVIN, a tnshp. in the par. of St. Oswald, co. Chester, 3 miles N.E. of Chester, on the river Mersey and Dee canal. WESCHO HILL, a hmlt. in the tnshp. of Weeton and par. of Harewood, West Biding co. York, 6 miles N.E. of Otley. WESHAM, a tnshp. in the par. of Kirkham, co. Lan- caster, 1 mile N.W. of Kirkham, its post town and rail- way station. It is situated near the river Eibble and the Lancaster canal, and is joined with Medlar. WESSINGTON, a tnshp. in the par. of Crich, co. Derby, 3 miles N.W. of Alfreton, and 1J mile from the Wingfield railway station. The inhabitants are principally employed in the stocking manufacture. There is a Sunday-school licensed for divine wor- ship. The Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists have chapels. WEST, a ward in co. Westmoreland, contains the pars, of Askham, Bampton, Barton, Brougham, Cliburn, Clifton, Crosby Eavensworth, Lowther, Norland, and Shap, comprising 118,120 acres. It gives name to a Poor-law Union and superintendent registry district. WEST, a hund. in co. Cornwall, contains the pars, of Boconnoc, with Broad Oak, Cardinham, St. Cleer, Duloe, St. Keyne, Lanreath, Lansalloes, Lanteglos-by- Fowey, Liskeard, St. Martin, Morval, St. Neot, Pelynt, St. Pinnock, Talland, St. Veep, Warleggon, and St. Winnow, besides the disfranchised borough of Looe, comprising 92,600 acres. It gives name to a deanery in the archdeaconry of Cornwall and dioc. of Exeter. WEST, a par. in the Isle of Westray, Orkney Islands, coast of Scotland, 7 miles N.E. of Eomsay. WEST, a hmlt. in the par. of Stauton Lacy, co. Salop, 2 miles N.W. of Ludlow. WEST ABERDEEN, a par. in the city and co. o.' Aberdeen, Scotland. See ABERDEEN. WEST-ACRE. See ACRE, WEST, co. Norfolk, and the like for other places with this prefix, not occurring in the following order. WESTALBY, a hmlt. in the par of Wickenby, co. Lincoln, 3 miles N.W. of Wragby. WESTALL, a hmlt. in the par. of Cheltenham, co. Gloucester. WESTANWICK, a tnshp. in the par. of Stoke-on- Tern, co. Salop, 3 miles S. of Market Drayton. WESTBARNS, a hmlt. in the par. of Dunbar, co. Haddington, 2 miles W. of Dunbar. WESTBERE, a par. in the hund. of Bleangate, latha of St. Augustine, co. Kent, 3 miles N.E. of Canterbury, and 1 mile from the Sturry station on the Ramsgate branch of the London and South- Eaatern railway. It is situated in the vale of the river Stour, and includes a considerable tract of marsh. The manor anciently belonged to St. Augus- tine's monastery at Canterbury. The village is situated on the old road from Canterbury to Margate. Westbere gives name to a deanery in the archdeaconry and dioc. of Canterbury. The living is a rect. * in the dioc. of Canterbury, val. 225, in the patron of the lord chancellor, and is held together with that of Aldington. The church is dedicated to All Saints. WESTBOROUGH, a par. in the wap. of Loveden, parts of Kesteven, co. Lincoln, 7 miles N.W. of Grant- ham, 7 S.E. of Newark, and 3 W. of Hougham station on the Great Northern railway. The Romans had a settlement here. It is situated on the river Wetham, and has an ancient cross in the centre of the village. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Lincoln, in two me- dieties, the first mediety, val. 470, and the second, an impropriation with Dry Doddington, val. 76. The church is dedicated to AH Saints. The Wesleyans have a chapel. G-. Neville, Esq., is lord of the manor. WESTBOUENE. See BOURNE, WEST, co. Sussex. WESTBOUENE PAEK, an ecclesiastical district in the Kensington div. of Ossulstone hund., co. Middle- sex, 3J miles N.W. of St. Paul's, London. It is situated near the Paddington canal and Great- Western railway, and now forms part of the metropolis. WESTBOUENE- WITH-SINGLETON, a hund. in the rape of Chichester, co. Sussex, contains the pars, of Binderton, West Bourne, Compton, East and West Dean, Middle Lavant, East, North, and Up Marden, Eacton, Singleton, and Stoughton, comprising 33,780 acres. WEST BRIDGE, a hmlt. in the par. of Kinghorn, co. Fife, Scotland. WESTBEOOK, & tythg. in the par. of Boxford, co. Berks, 4 miles N.W. of Newbury, on the river Lam- bourne. WESTBUEY, a par. in the hund. and co. of Buck- ingham, 5 miles N.W. of Buckingham, and 3 S.E. of Brackloy. Tho village is situated on the river Ouse. The living is a vie. in the dioc. of Oxford, val. 1U6. The church is dedicated to St. Augustine. The paro- chial charities produce about 22 per annum. WESTBUEY, a par. in the hund. of Ford, co, Salop, 8| miles S.W. of Shrewsbury. It is a station on the Shrewsbury and Welshpool branch line of railway. The par. includes the chplry. of Minsterley, with 14 tnshps. The surface, which is hilly in parts, ii drained by a branch of the river Severn. The soil is heavy, but fertile, producing good wheat crops, and tho substratum abounds in coal and lead ore, of which several mines are in operation. At Snailbeach, where is an extensive lead mine now at work, a pig of lead was discovered about twenty years back marked with the name of the Boman Emperor Aurelian. About one mile