. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . ms here, fo that about threeparts of the town are forrounded with water. Burton, called alfo BuRton Stather, is 168 milesfrom London, and ftands ver y well for trade, on the eaft fide ofthe Trent, whereon it has feveral mills, and the houfes arepleafantly intermixed with trees; and many fcenes about theplace are exceedingly rural anid romantic. Here are twochurches, one of which is f
. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . ms here, fo that about threeparts of the town are forrounded with water. Burton, called alfo BuRton Stather, is 168 milesfrom London, and ftands ver y well for trade, on the eaft fide ofthe Trent, whereon it has feveral mills, and the houfes arepleafantly intermixed with trees; and many fcenes about theplace are exceedingly rural anid romantic. Here are twochurches, one of which is fo low in refpect of the precipice ovetit, that a perfon may almoft leap from it on the fteeple. Crowland is 94 miles from London, and is famous for itsabbey, which was firif, built by Ethelbald, King of Mercia, inthe year 716. It was afterwards burnt by the Danes in 870;but King Edrcd, about the year 948, rebuilt it, and it continuedin great wealth and fplendour till the general difiblution. Greatpart of the abbey-church is ftill ftanding, though in a decayedcondition, particularly the fteeple, with the fine windows of thegreat weftern ifle, adorned with carved work, and images aslarge as the life, ■ The. \~f~:—^fifeO? ■j i f tllliri-rnjE I* H $8551!
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