A description of England and Wales, containing a particular account of each county, with its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, (14586447967)

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Title: A description of England and Wales, containing a particular account of each county, with its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, fossils, caverns, plants and minerals, agriculture, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, cities, towns, palaces, seats, corporations, markets, fairs, manufactures, trade, sieges, battles, and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals, the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings, and of abbeys, monasteries, and other religious houses, besides a variety of cuts of urns, inscriptions, and other antiquities ..
Year: 1769 (1760s)
Authors: Newbery and Carnan, publisher
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Publisher: London : Printed for Newbery and Carnan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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of the Stradlings, near which-there are dug up feveral ancient Roman coins,among which were fome of i^milianus and Ma--rius, which are very fcarce. This is feated on aiveminence, having a fine park to the weft, and onthe fouth pleafant gardens, defcending in terraftesfrom the caftle wall, to the Severn fea. The firft^mention of it, made in hiftory, is in the fifth ofWilliam Rufus, and in the year icgr, when Jef-tin ap Gurgan, the Britifh prince of Morgannwg,by the treachery of Enion ap Cadiver, lord ofDyvet, loft his life and territories, which weretaken by the Normans, Their leader Fitz Hai-mon divided the country among the twelveknights, his aflbciates in this expedition ; whenthis caftle fell to the fhare of Sir William LeighEfterlins:, otherwife Stradlingj and it has beentheir family feat 648 years. But they becomingextind, it is now in the family of the Manfels,It is very large, and m.akes a very good appear-ancc, though the difierent parts of the fhudure are )i/j7i7v/i.,-^<).
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GLAMORGANSHIRE. 89 iare extremely antique Of this ftru£lure we havegiven a view. At the diflance of feven miles, north-weft ofCowbridge, is Bridge-End, which is feated onthe Ogmore. That river divides it into two parts,which are joined together by a ftone bridge. Ithas a confiderable market on Saturdays, for corn,cattle and provifions ; and two fairs, the firft onHoly-Thurfday, and the other on the 17th ofNovember, for horned cattle, flieep and hogs. Aberavon is a town on the road from Bridge-End to Neath, and is feated on the river Avon,,about two miles from the fea. It is a boroughtov/n, about two furlongs in length, governed bya portrieve, but has neither market nor fair. Four miles fouth-eaft of Aberavon is Kynfig-,where was formerly a caftle belonging to Fitz-Haimon. About two miles to the north-weft is MoRGA>r,where Robert, earl of Gloucefter, in the year1147, founded an abbey for Lrftercian monks, de-dicated to the Virgin Mary, which was valued atthe diflblution at 181 1. a