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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  ALTHORP	Northamptonshire	Spencers became possessed of the park at Althorp about the year 1512. This originated in a license from the king to John Spencer, afterwards Sir John Spencer. At that time the park is described as containing 300 acres of land, 100 acres of wood	Imperial
  CASTLEBAR	Mayo	wooded demesne, affording a pleasant promenade to the inhabitants of the town. The other seats are Spencer Park, that of Major	Lewis:Ireland
  ELLESMERE	Shropshire	Spencer, Edward Savage, and the Egertons. Its castle occupied an eminence; was under special governors during all the times of its being held by the Crown; but began to pass into neglect from the time of Edward III.; was afterwards suffered to go to ruin; and has entirely disappeared. The castle's site has been converted into a bowling-green; and commands a brilliant view over portions of nine counties. The town presents a pretty appearance; is a seat of petty sessions and a polling place; and has a post office‡ under Shrewsbury, a railway station, three chief inns	Imperial
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Glasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of	Groome
  Hamilton Palace	Lanarkshire	woods, gardens, and lawns. The wild white cattle are noticed under Cadzow. Near the Palace stands a mausoleum erected, at a cost of £130,000, from designs by David Bryce, in imitation of the castle of St Angelo at Rome. It includes an octagonal chapel adorned with sculptures by A. H. Ritchie, and lighted by a dome 120 feet high. Hither, in 1852, were transferred the remains of the Hamilton family. A moathill towards the N of the park is 30 feet in diameter at the base, and 16 high, and it has been referred to at least	Groome
  KILKENNY	Kilkenny	wooded head, or hill, near the river;" and by others, with more probability, from the dedication of its church to St. Canice, on the removal of the ancient see of Ossory from Aghavoe to this place, about the year 1052, which had been originally founded at Saiger, now Seir-Keran, about 402. Of the earlier history of the town little is recorded previously to 1173, when Donald O'Brien, King of Thomond, assembled his forces to dispossess the English invaders under Strong-bow, who had established themselves and erected a fortress here soon after their landing in Ireland. On this	Lewis:Ireland
  LAMBOURNE	Essex	Spencer of Norwich, who suppressed Keat's rebellion; and is now the seat of Col. W. M. Wood. Patch Park	Imperial
  LEAMINGTON	Warwickshire	LEAMINGTON , a town, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district and county of Warwick. The town stands on	Imperial
  Lennox Castle	Stirlingshire	wooded northern slope of the South Brae (758 feet), it commands an extensive and brilliant view, and itself figures as a striking feature in a gorgeous landscape. It was erected in 1837-41, after designs by David Hamilton of Glasgow, in a bold variety of the grand old Norman style; occupies a site adjoining that of the old mansion of Woodhead; and is the seat of the Hon. Charles Spencer	Groome
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Spencer, Smallthorne, and Wetley-Rocks. The deanery of Newcastleunder-Lyne contains the rectory of Newcastle-St. Giles, the vicarages of Audley and Wolstanton, and the p. curacies of Betley, Chesterton, Golden-Hill, Keele, Kidsgrove, Mowcop, New Chapel, Newcastle-St. George, Silverdale, and Talk-o'-the-Hill. The deanery of Penkridge contains the rectory of Church-Eaton, the vicarage of Lapley, and the p. curacies of Acton-Trussell, Bednall, Bradley, Coppenhall, Dunstan, Penkridge-St. Michael, Penkridge-Christchurch, Stretton, and WheatonAston. The deanery of Rugeley contains the rectories of Blithefield, Colton, Ridware-Hamstall, and RidwareMavesyn; the vicarages of Abbots-Bromley, Colwich	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  MONMOUTH	Monmouthshire	Spencer's "Fairy Queen, ''the materials of Shakespears tragedy of "King Lear, ''and the beautiful fiction of "Sabrina ''in Milton's "Comus." A tower of the priory, in very good preservation, still stands; is now used as a national school; and contains an apartment with decorated oriel window, reputed to have been Geoffrey's study, but evidently of a later date. The town numbers also, among its natives, the bishop John of Monmouth, the monk Thomas of Monmouth, the theologian Hopkins, and the first Duke of Lancaster Henry Plantagenet; and it gave the title of Duke to James, illegitimate	Imperial
  NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE	Northumberland	NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE , a town, four parishes, and a district, in Northumberland. The town stands on the river Tyne at	Imperial
  NORFOLK	Norfolk	NORFOLK , a maritime county in the E of England; bounded, on the N W, by the Wash, which divides it	Imperial
  NORTHAMPTON	Northamptonshire	NORTHAMPTON , a town and a district in Northamptonshire. The town stands on the river Nen, at ajunction with it of	Imperial
  NORWICH	Norfolk Suffolk	wood-work, and loftier than the nave and the transept. The Beanchamp chapel, on the S side, is now the Consistory court; Jesus' chapel, on the N E side, is used by the Bishop; and St. Luke's chapel, on the S, is now used as the parish church of St. Mary-in-the-Marsh. The cloister shows considerable beauty, and is the largest in England; exhibits bosses with sculptured figures; and has, over the W door, a carved representation of thee spousals of Adam and Eve. A small chamber, with a hagioscope, probably a hermitage	Imperial
  PLYMOUTH	Devon	PLYMOUTH , a great seaport in the S W extremity of Devon. It comprehends the three towns of Plymouth-proper on	Imperial
  Spencer's Wood	Berkshire	Spencer's Wood , 2m. from Swallowfield, Berks; P.O.	Bartholomew
  YOUGHAL	Cork	YOUGHAL , a sea-port, borough, and market-town, and a parish, in the barony of IMOKILLY, county of CORK, and	Lewis:Ireland

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