|parishes, and containing 890 houses, and 4851 inhabitants; its |manufactures chiefly consist of druggets, serges, kerseymeres, and |malting. It has two churches and a chapel. The houses are old, and |mostly built of timber. The Romans enclosed it with a vallum and |ditch, in which there is now a road almost round the town; and on |a small hill within the town are to be seen the remains of its |strong castle. It is well fortified by nature, and was made almost |impregnable by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury. Brass figures of |household gods, coins, bricks, and urns, evidently Roman, have |been dug up here. | |Near the castle rises a rivulet, which falls into the Avon near |Bramham; and the town is greatly improved by the Kennet and Avon |Canal, which here presents a beautiful appearance. The new Gaol, |at the western extremity of the town, is also worthy of notice. | |This borough was incorporated by Charles the First, and sends two |members to parliament. The markets are on Monday for butchers’ |meat, and on Thursday for horses, cattle, corn, wool, provisions, |poultry, &c. | 143|Devon Gate, Devon, 170. | 44|Dial Post, Sussex, 66. | |Ditchampton, Wilts, 208. (_Population included with Wilton_) | 14|Ditton Common, Surrey, 25. | 13|Ditton Marsh, Surrey, 24. | 237|Dobwalls, Cornwall, 125. | 71|Dock Yard, Portsmouth, Hants, 32. (_see Portsmouth_) | 54|Dog Kennel, Sussex, 39. | 120|=Dorchester=, Dorset, 109, 171. A borough, market, and county |town, standing on an elevation on the river Frome, comprising |three parishes, 364 houses, and 2546 inhabitants. Its principal |manufactures are serge and broad cloth. Its ancient name was |_Durnovaria_, signifying the _passage of the river_, and it was |strongly fortified, having four gates and a deep ditch; and in the |time of the Saxons two mints were established here. | |The town is built in the direction of the four cardinal points, |and the buildings are good. The foundation of the Roman wall |appears quite round the town; but to the east there is a street |built upon it, and the ditch is filled up. On the south-west side |of the wall there is an agreeable walk between a row of trees; but |the winding of the river to the north spoils the square of the |town that way. It has a newly erected town hall and market place, |and a commodious county gaol, built after Mr. Howard’s plan, on |the site of an ancient castle. The streets are neatly paved, and |the houses in general built regularly of stone. | |Dorchester sends two members to parliament, and the assizes for |the county are held here. Several Roman antiquities, and the |remains of military ways, have been discovered in this town,