The new international encyclopaedia . ELSEA, winchd-se. A small Eng-lish town, one of the Cinque Ports, seven milesfrom Hastings, in Sussex. It was formerly animportant walled town. In the Roman periods Old Winchelsea stood at the mouthof the Rother, two miles from the present was frequently inundated by the sea and wassubmerged in 1250 and iinally destroyed in Winchelsea. built on a regular quadrangular])lan, was founded by Edward I. This town waspractically ruined i)y the gradual recession ofthe sea, amounting to a mile and a half sincethe sixteenth century. Tlie
The new international encyclopaedia . ELSEA, winchd-se. A small Eng-lish town, one of the Cinque Ports, seven milesfrom Hastings, in Sussex. It was formerly animportant walled town. In the Roman periods Old Winchelsea stood at the mouthof the Rother, two miles from the present was frequently inundated by the sea and wassubmerged in 1250 and iinally destroyed in Winchelsea. built on a regular quadrangular])lan, was founded by Edward I. This town waspractically ruined i)y the gradual recession ofthe sea, amounting to a mile and a half sincethe sixteenth century. Tlie salt marshes thusformed are now drained. WINCHENDON. .\ town, including severalvillages, in Worcester County. 68 milesnorthwest of lioston. on the Boston and Maineand tlic Boston and Albany railroads (Alap:Massachusetts. C 2). It has a pu1)lic librarywith about 7000 volumes, a line high schoolbuilding, the gift of Captain Ephraim IMurdock,and Monument Park. Winchcndon is cliielly anindustrial town, the most important manufac-. < ir Q UJ II-< O cc LlJ Hcn LU Io z WINCHENDON. 553 WINCHESTER. tures being cotton goods, woodenware, saws, toys,and machinery. The water-works are owned andoperated by the town. l()|)ulat,i()n, in 1890,43;)0; in ioOO, .WOl. Wineliendon was in 1752 and was known as Ipswich Canadauntil 17(i4, when it was incorporated as a town-ship under its present name (from Winchendon,Knf,hind). Consult Marvin, llislori/ of the Townof WimhriKliDi (Winchendon, 1808). WINCHESTER. The capital of Hampshire,England, on the Itchen^ (ifl miles by rail south-west of London (Map: England, E 5). In thefourteenth century it was tlie principal seat ofEnglands woolen niaimfactures and had an ex-tensive Continental trade, Init since the fifteenthcentury its prosperity has gradually city consists of one main street, crossed bya number of streets running at right angles to it,and was in early times surroiuidcd by a wall,of which remains exist. T
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