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Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.Mogg, Edward S.

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Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.

Name: Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.
Author: Mogg, Edward S.

Mogg, Edward S.

England -- Maps; Great Britain -- Maps; Roads -- Great Britain

|manufactory is cloth; and it has a market on Tuesday.
     |
   89|Cain Hill, Wilts, 199.
     |
   71|Cambreach, Wilts, 182.
     |
  115|Camel Hill, Somerset, 166.
     |
  116|Camel West, Somerset, 166. A parish containing 38 houses, and 224
     |inhabitants.
     |
     |Cams, East, Hants, 222.
     |
  103|Canford Bottom, Dorset, 90.
     |
  101|Canford Bridge, Dorset, 90.
     |
  100|Cann, Dorset, 138. A parish containing 32 houses, and 203
     |inhabitants.
     |
   55|CANTERBURY, Kent, 8, 11. A city, and the metropolitan see of all
     |England. It is situated in a pleasant valley, between hills of a
     |moderate height and easy ascent, among which are several springs.
     |The river Stour passes here, and dividing into several small
     |streams, forms islands of various sizes, in one of which the
     |western part of the city stands.
     |
     |It was the _Durovernum_ of the Romans; and the Britons called it
     |_Caer Kent_, that is, the city of Kent. It is mentioned as a city
     |in Antonine’s Itinerary, and its ancient importance appears from
     |the strong military causeways leading to Dover and Lymme through
     |the city, as well as the many Roman vestiges and coins found in
     |and about the neighbourhood; and its archiepiscopal and
     |metropolitan dignity seems also to have been settled very early.
     |
     |This city was given entirely to the bishops by William Rufus; and
     |it was held in particular veneration after the murder of Becket,
     |in the reign of Henry the Second; to whose shrine, so great were
     |the offerings, that Erasmus says, the whole church and chapel in
     |which he was interred, glittered with jewels.
     |
     |The cathedral has been several times destroyed by fire: the
     |present structure was built about the year 1174; but not entirely
     |completed till the reign of Henry the Fifth: kings, princes,
     |cardinals and Bishops, are buried in it. During the great
     |rebellion it suffered much; Cromwell made a stable of it for his
     |dragoons; but after the restoration it was repaired. The body of
     |the church measures 178 feet from the western door to the choir
     |steps; and the breadth, including the aisles, 71 feet, and the
     |vaulted roof 80 feet. It was new paved with Portland stone, in
     |1788. The choir is the most spacious of any in the kingdom, being
     |180 feet in length from the western door to the altar. The altar
     |piece was designed by Sir James Burrough, master of Caius College,
     |Cambridge; and the great stained window is the most beautiful of
     |the kind in England. In 1784, an elegant organ was put up, built
     |in the Gothic style. Behind the altar is the beautiful chapel of
     |the Holy Trinity, in the middle of which stood the shrine of St.
     |Thomas à Becket; part of the flat is curiously inlaid with mosaic
     |work, and contains the episcopal chair, composed of three pieces

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Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.Mogg, Edward S.

History

Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.

Mogg, Edward S.

England -- Maps; Great Britain -- Maps; Roads -- Great Britain

|manufactory is cloth; and it has a market on Tuesday.
     |
   89|Cain Hill, Wilts, 199.
     |
   71|Cambreach, Wilts, 182.
     |
  115|Camel Hill, Somerset, 166.
     |
  116|Camel West, Somerset, 166. A parish containing 38 houses, and 224
     |inhabitants.
     |
     |Cams, East, Hants, 222.
     |
  103|Canford Bottom, Dorset, 90.
     |
  101|Canford Bridge, Dorset, 90.
     |
  100|Cann, Dorset, 138. A parish containing 32 houses, and 203
     |inhabitants.
     |
   55|CANTERBURY, Kent, 8, 11. A city, and the metropolitan see of all
     |England. It is situated in a pleasant valley, between hills of a
     |moderate height and easy ascent, among which are several springs.
     |The river Stour passes here, and dividing into several small
     |streams, forms islands of various sizes, in one of which the
     |western part of the city stands.
     |
     |It was the _Durovernum_ of the Romans; and the Britons called it
     |_Caer Kent_, that is, the city of Kent. It is mentioned as a city
     |in Antonine’s Itinerary, and its ancient importance appears from
     |the strong military causeways leading to Dover and Lymme through
     |the city, as well as the many Roman vestiges and coins found in
     |and about the neighbourhood; and its archiepiscopal and
     |metropolitan dignity seems also to have been settled very early.
     |
     |This city was given entirely to the bishops by William Rufus; and
     |it was held in particular veneration after the murder of Becket,
     |in the reign of Henry the Second; to whose shrine, so great were
     |the offerings, that Erasmus says, the whole church and chapel in
     |which he was interred, glittered with jewels.
     |
     |The cathedral has been several times destroyed by fire: the
     |present structure was built about the year 1174; but not entirely
     |completed till the reign of Henry the Fifth: kings, princes,
     |cardinals and Bishops, are buried in it. During the great
     |rebellion it suffered much; Cromwell made a stable of it for his
     |dragoons; but after the restoration it was repaired. The body of
     |the church measures 178 feet from the western door to the choir
     |steps; and the breadth, including the aisles, 71 feet, and the
     |vaulted roof 80 feet. It was new paved with Portland stone, in
     |1788. The choir is the most spacious of any in the kingdom, being
     |180 feet in length from the western door to the altar. The altar
     |piece was designed by Sir James Burrough, master of Caius College,
     |Cambridge; and the great stained window is the most beautiful of
     |the kind in England. In 1784, an elegant organ was put up, built
     |in the Gothic style. Behind the altar is the beautiful chapel of
     |the Holy Trinity, in the middle of which stood the shrine of St.
     |Thomas à Becket; part of the flat is curiously inlaid with mosaic
     |work, and contains the episcopal chair, composed of three pieces

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Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.

Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.

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