. 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,
. 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 .. . te, feated on a river of the fame name,over which is a fione bridge, eight miles eaft bynorth of Swanfey, thirty north-weft of LlandafF,and 168 weft by north of London. The caftlehere is very ancient, tho we have no accountwhen it was founded. It was, however, rebuiltabout the year 1090 by Richard de Granville, oneof the twelve Norman knights, who affifted Ro-bert Fitz-Haimon in the conqueft of this coun-try ; and it was afterwards burnt in the year 1231by prince Llewellyn. It is fituated near the riverNeath, and is the caftle of the burrough and ma-nor of Neath, formerly a iordfhip marcher, andwas lately in the poffelTion of Herbert Mackworth,Efq; who has a pleafant feat, beautifully fituatedon an eminence near the faid caftle. Neath w-is formerly a place of greater extentthan it is at prefcnt, tho it is ftill pretty large. Itis governed by a portrieve, annualh fworn by thedeputy conftable of the caftle of Neath. SmallvefTels bring plenty of coals up to the bridge, to the y/.,
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