. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. SamuelHigginson in 1697, and Jane Higginson in 1707, withproperty now producing about £250 per annum ; and aschool in connexion with the Presbyterians, was foundedand endowed by Thomas Benyon in
. A topographical dictionary of England : comprising the several counties, cities, boroughs, corporate and market towns, parishes, and townships, and the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with historical and statistical descriptions ; and embellished with engravings of the arms of the cities, bouroughs, bishoprics, universities, and colleges, and of the seals of the various municipal corporations. SamuelHigginson in 1697, and Jane Higginson in 1707, withproperty now producing about £250 per annum ; and aschool in connexion with the Presbyterians, was foundedand endowed by Thomas Benyon in 1707. The interestof £2200, arising from bequests by Elizabeth Turton in1794 and others, is distributed among persons in re-duced circumstances; and a considerable sum is like-wise laid out in bread. In 1828, the late Earl of Bridge-water, who was rector of the parish, bequeathed £2000for charitable uses. At the northern extremity of thetown is an extensive house of industry, built and prin-cipally supported from the funds of several bequests leftfor general purposes of relief. Whitchurch is the birth-place of Dr. Bernard, chaplain and biographer of Arch-bishop Ussher ; and of Abraham Wheelock, a celebratedlinguist, who died in 1654. WHITCHURCH, or Felton (St. Gregory), a pa-rish, in the union and hundred of Keynsham, E. divisionof Somerset, 3 miles (N.) from Pensford; containing WHIT WHIT. Corporation Seal. 416 inhabitants. The name Filton, orFelton, is derivedfrom a very old town situated to the north-west of thepresent village, in a forest or chace once called Filwood :a church having been erected on the site of an ancientchapel dedicated to St. White, the inhabitants of Filtongradually removed into its vicinity, upon which the newvillage and the parish assumed the designation of Whit-church. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income,£88; patrons and impropriators, Sir J. Smyth, Bart.,and the Langton family. WHITCHURCH (AllSaints), a parish, the headof a union, and fo
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