. 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. hamlet, in the parish of Hale, union ofWhitehaven, Allerdale ward above Derwent, of Cumberland ; containing 72 inhabitants. WILTON (St. James), a parish, in the union ofThetford, hundr
. 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. hamlet, in the parish of Hale, union ofWhitehaven, Allerdale ward above Derwent, of Cumberland ; containing 72 inhabitants. WILTON (St. James), a parish, in the union ofThetford, hundred of Grimshoe, W. division of Nor-folk, 4 miles (W.) from Brandon-Ferry. The parish isbounded on the south by the Lesser Ouse, which sepa-rates it from the county of Suffolk; it comprises bymeasurement 2600 acres. The living is a dischargedvicarage, united to the rectory of Hockwold, and valuedin the kings books at £6. 7- 6. The church is in thedecorated and later styles, and consists of a nave andchancel, separated by a handsome carved screen; it hasa massive embattled tower, surmounted by an octangularspire of freestone. There is a place of worship for Wes-leyans. Near the church is an ancient cross. WILTON, or Welton, a tything, in the parish ofMidsummer-Norton, union of Clutton, hundred ofChewton, E. division of Somerset, 8^ miles (S. W.)from Bath; containing 1480 inhabitants. WILT WILT. WILTON (St. George), a parish, in the union ofTaunton, hundred of Taunton and Taunton-Dean,W. division of Somerset ; containing, with the hamletsof Galmington and Shurford, 799 inhabitants. Theliving is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of theRev. Dr. Cottle, with a net income of £104 : the titheshave been commuted for £225. 8., and there are nearly6 acres of impropriate glebe. The church, which hasbeen enlarged, was originally a chapel to the vicarage ofSt. Mary Magdalene, in Taunton, to which town Wiltonforms an extensive suburb. The house of correction,capable of containing 1*5 pr
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