A new description of all the counties in England and Wales [electronic resource] : containing I. In...
A new description of all the counties in England and Wales [electronic resource] : containing I. In what diocese; the circumference in miles; Number of Acres and Houses; the Air, Soil, Rivers, Commodities, chief Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and the Hundreds in each county. II. Market-Towns, Market days, and their Distances from the City of London. III. Members of Parliament. IV. Fairs, fixed and moveable. V. A brief and succinct History of all the Cities in England and Wales. VI. Coaches, Carriers, and Waterbound, to all Parts of the Kingdom; what Days they go out of Town, and from whence. Vii. Roads from London to the chief Towns, and Cross Roads; each County distinct by itself, alphabetically. Viii. The Distances of the principal Towns from the Shire-Towns in every County. IX. The rates of coachmen, Carmen, and Watermen in and about the cities of London and Westminster, &c. &c. The whole very plain, easy, entertaining, and more exact than in any other Work.
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London : printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, over-against the Magnus's Church, London-Bridge, 1752.
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1752.
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261,[25],30p.,plate : map ; 12°.
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London : printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, over-against the Magnus's Church, London-Bridge, 1752.
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The sixth edition revised, and much improved. To which is added, a compleat index, ..
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England
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1752.
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A new description of all the counties in England and Wales [electronic resource] : containing I. In what diocese; the circumference in miles; Number of Acres and Houses; the Air, Soil, Rivers, Commodities, chief Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, and the Hundreds in each county. II. Market-Towns, Market days, and their Distances from the City of Lon...
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Advertisement to the reader signed: R.R.
Includes 'A table of the fixed fairs'.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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ESTC T113685.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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