Holyhead is a place of very remote antiquity, and appears, from the vestiges of military works still to be seen, to have been an important Roman station. The principal trade of this port consists in the importation of agricultural produce from Ireland; and the town is greatly increased and improved in consequence of its being the most convenient place of embarkation for Dublin. A steam-vessel leaves Holyhead for that city at 6 o'clock every morning. The distance is 20 leagues, and the voyage is generally performed in from six to nine hours. Holyhead is the principal station for the Government packets to Dublin. A religious house is said to have been erected here in the latter part of the 6th century; but the house for canons regular, called the College, appears to have been founded about 1137. The church, which is a handsome building, was erected about the time of Edward III. Holyhead contains also an assembly room, baths, a light-house, a convenient harbour, and a pier. The promontory of the head is an immense precipice, hollowed by the ocean into magnificent caverns, affording shelter for falcons and sea-fowls. Pop. of par. 3869. LIX. LONDON TO BIRMINGHAM BY OXFORD, WOODSTOCK, AND ON RIGHT FROM LOND. From Birmin. From London. ON LEFT FROM LOND. Plomer's Hill, J. Keates, Esq., and 3 miles distant, Bradenham House. Aston House, near which is Kingstone. Thame Park. 84 town-hall, erected in 1757, by John, Earl of Shelburne, a free grammar school, and an ancient church, ornamented with a fine altar piece, and a superb monument to Henry Petty, Earl of Shelburne, and Sophia, the first wife of the Marquis of Lansdowne. The Wycombe stream turns fifteen paper and corn-mills. Two M.P. Pop. 6480. West-Wycombe. Here is a handsome mausoleum, erected by Lord De Spencer. 313 Wycombe Park, Sir J. D. King, Bart. 804 Stoken Church (Oxon.) 364 Shirburn Castle, (Earl of Macclesfield,) containing two libraries, an armory, several fine specimens of painting and sculpture, and among other portraits, an original of Catherine Parr, Queen to Henry VIII. Nethercote House, R. P. Jodrell, Esq. Adwell House. Cuddesden Palace, Bishop of Oxford. Shotover House. 2 miles distant are the Roll-rich Stones, the most Wheatley Bridge. cr. river Thame. cr. river Charwell. OXFORD. WOODSTOCK is famous for its manufacture of gloves and other leathern articles, but that of polished steel has declinled. It has a handsome town hall, erected from a design of Sir W. Chambers, at the sole expense of the Duke of Marlborough, and is celebrated in history as the occasional residence of Henry I. and II., and of fair Rosamond. One M.P. Pop. of borough and parish 1412. Enstone has a church dedicated to St Keneln. 54 56 62 69 72 curious memorial of anti-40 Kompton Hill, (War-75 Blenheim, the magnificent seat erected in the reign of Queen Anne for the celebrated Duke of Marlborough. Sir J. Vanburgh was the architect employed, and half a million was granted by Parliament for the erection. The interior is splendidly adorned, and contains a valuable collection of pictures, a library of more than 17,000 volumes, and an elegant chapel. The gardens are extensive, the park, consisting of about 2700 acres, is richly wooded, and the grounds are laid out with great taste. Ditchley Park, Earl of Normanton. Chapel House. wickshire.) 39 Long Compton. 77 Tidmington Hall. 33 SHIPSTON, (Worcesters.) 83 3 miles dist. Foxcote Ho. Stratford on Avon, celebrated as the birth-place of Shakspeare. The house in which he was born is situated in Henley Street. The approach to the church, which is delightfully situated on the banks of the Avon, is by an avenue of lime-trees. In the chancel is the celebrated bust of the poet, in front of which he and his wife are buried. The town-hall in High Street was erected in 1769, at the time of the jubilee. A good statue of Shakspeare stands at the north end of the building. The interior is adorned with portraits of Shakspeare, Garrick, and the Duke of Dorset. In the High Street also are the remains of an ancient cross, and adjoining them is the guildhall, a portion of which is occupied as a grammar school, where it is said Shakspeare received his education. A railroad has been formed from Stratford to Moreton in the Marsh. Pop. of township, 3321. ON RIGHT FROM LOND. LX. LONDON TO BIRMINGHAM BY AYLESBURY, BUCKINGHAM, BANBURY, 1 mile distant, Belsize 112 House, and beyond it Rosslyn House. From Tyburn Turnpike to cr. river Brent. Brandesbury House, Sir To Dunstable, 11 miles. Northcote Court, W. Smart, Esq. and Ashridge Park. A monastery was erected here about 1283, which, after the dissolution, became the seat of 84 royalty, and was frequent- 81 ly the residence of Queen Elizabeth when Princess. 77 The conventical buildings were nearly all pulled down during the present century by the late Duke of Bridgewater. Weedon. Box-Moor. BERKHAMPSTEAD. This place is famous for 231 its paper mills. Box Moor Hall, E. Mead, Esq. Westbrook Hay, Hon. 261 G. D. Ryder, M. P. Ashlins Hall, J. Smith, Esq. Haresfoot, T. Dorien, North Church. 27 Esq. Woodcock Manson, Esq. Hill, A. Champneys, W. Ham TRING. Aston-Clinton (Bucks.) AYLESBURY, a town of great antiquity, is situated nearly in the middle of the county, on an eminence in the fertile tract called the Vale of Aylesbury. The church is an ancient and spacious structure, with a large churchyard. Here is a town-hall, county gaol, and a market-house. The inhabitants of this town and its vicinity rear a great number of early ducklings, which are sent to the London market. Two M. P. Pop. 5429. cr. river Thame. mond, Esq. |