4|Appleton[D] to & pa|Wantage 10| 61| 447| 22|Appleton to|Liverpool 11| 195| 1439| 44|Appleton to|Bedale 6| 228| 83| 43|Appleton-le-Moors to|Helmsley 8| 231| 269| 43|Appleton-le-Street to|York 18| 218| 860| 46|Appleton Roebuck to|Tadcaster 5| 189| 638| 44|Appleton on Wisk to|Darlington 11| 232| 553| 30|Appletree ham|Southam 9| 77| 83| 44|Appletrewick[E] to|Burnsall 1| 224| 425| +--+-------------------------+------------------------+-----+---------+ [A] APPLEDORE is situated on the banks of the river Rother, in the hundred of Blackburn, lathe of Scray, and was a place of some maritime consequence in the reign of Alfred. The town is at present chiefly inhabited by graziers and others employed in the marshes, to which it is very near. The church is built on the foundation of a castle or fort, which had been erected by the Danes, who sailed up to this town in the year 893. _Market_. Tuesday.--_Fairs_. Jan. 11, and 4th Mon. in June for cattle and pedlery. [Sidenote: Principally inhabited by Graziers.] [B] APPLESHAW.--Great Show Fair, Friday and Saturday before Weyhill Fair. Nov. 4 and 5, all for sheep. [C] APPLETHWAITE. All the fisheries on the lovely lake of Winandermere belong to the inhabitants of this thriving village, and subject only to a tithe of the fish caught to the Rector of Winandermere, who makes composition for the same, by a sum prescribed by each boat. The red char, esteemed so great a delicacy, is said to be peculiar to the lakes of Winandermere and Ullswater; this delicious fish is taken in nets during the months of October and May, when they are potted and sent to different parts of the kingdom. About the beginning of September a grand regatta is given on the lucid waters of the lake, attended by families of the first distinction. [Sidenote: Lake of Winandermere.] [Sidenote: Grand Regatta.] [D] APPLETON. This village was the birth place of the famous physician and chemist, Edmund Dickinson, who was born in the year 1624. At 20 years of age he went to the university of Oxford; in 1655, (he published a work to prove) that the Greeks borrowed the story of the Pythian Apollo, and all that related to the Oracle of Delphos, from the Holy Scriptures. In consequence of some excellent cures, he was appointed Physician to Charles II., and afterwards became a convert to the doctrine of the Transmutation of Metals; and wrote a work, the object of which is to prove, "that the method and mode of the creation of the universe, (according to the principles of true philosophy,) are strictly and concisely laid down by Moses." He died in 1707. [Sidenote: Birth place of the learned Edmund Dickinson]