| 31|Quarry Hill, Kent, 14. | 115|Queen’s Camel, Somerset, 166. A parish containing 94 houses, and |584 inhabitants. This was formerly a considerable town, having two |markets weekly, but was nearly destroyed by fire about two |centuries since. | 80|Quemerford, Bridge, Wilts, 184. | 83|Quidhampton, Wilts, 136, 208. | | |R. | 42|Radfield, Kent, 6. | 127|Radipole, Dorset, 171. A parish containing 26 houses, and 151 |inhabitants. | 114|Radstoke, Somerset, 188. A parish containing 100 houses, and 509 |inhabitants. | 89|Rag Lane, Wilts, 185. | 34|Rainham, Kent, 5. A parish containing 119 houses, and 722 |inhabitants. It consists of one principal street, and the church |contains several ancient monuments, particularly an elegant marble |statue of one of the Earls of Thanet. | 33|Rainham, Mark, Kent, 5. | 49|Rake, Sussex, 29. | 72|=Ramsgate=, Kent, 13. This town is situated in a valley, |commanding a delightful prospect of the British Channel. Anciently |it was but a mean fishing village, but has acquired its present |respectability from its inhabitants, about a century back, |entering largely into the Russia and East country trade, and of |late years from its fashionable resort as a sea-bathing place. A |spacious new street has been erected for the accommodation of its |numerous summer visitors, and it has now become the rival of |Margate. | |The pier, built of Portland and Purbeck stone, at the expence of |several hundred thousand pounds, is the most magnificent structure |of the kind in the kingdom. It extends eight hundred feet into the |sea before it forms an angle, and is twenty-six feet broad at the |top. Its south front is a polygon, its angles five on a side, each |four hundred and fifty feet, with octagons of sixty feet at the |ends, and the entrance two hundred feet; this great work was began |in 1749. The harbour is capable of admitting vessels of five |hundred tons, and the pier forms the grand promenade. | |The bathing place lies in front of a long line of high chalky |rocks at the back of the pier, composed of a reddish sand, soft |and pleasant to the feet; it is furnished with machines in the |same manner as Margate. The rooms for the accommodation of the |bathers are commodious, and there are four warm salt water baths, |also a plunging and shower bath, with convenient rooms attached. |The assembly room is a neat fabric, near the harbour, with all the |various coffee, tea, billiard, card, &c. rooms annexed; the whole |is under the direction of the master of the ceremonies of Margate. |There are several good hotels, and numerous lodging houses, suited |to every sort of company. It has a handsome chapel erected in |1785.