. 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. of Cumberland, 3 miles (E. by N.) from Wig-ton ; containing 745 inhabitants. A school for thepoor is partly supported by the interest of £3000 raisedby subscription. WOODSIDE-WARD, a township, 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. of Cumberland, 3 miles (E. by N.) from Wig-ton ; containing 745 inhabitants. A school for thepoor is partly supported by the interest of £3000 raisedby subscription. WOODSIDE-WARD, a township, in the parish ofElsdon, union of Rotiibury, S. division of Coquet-dale ward, N. division of Northumberland, l£ mile(N.) from Elsdon j containing 134 inhabitants. It lieson both sides of the Keenship burn, and contains bymeasurement 6467 acres, of which about 215 are arable,41 woodland, and the remainder pasture. Much of thescenery is romantic, and the outline of the hills is veryfine. A little north of High Carricks, coal was workedin 1810, in pits about ten fathoms deep, bat much in-terrupted by dykes ; limestone, also, crosses the roadfrom High Cairn ks to Head-hope, on the south side ofwhich place it. breaks out in grassy knolls. There arestill a few peel houses remaining, and until recentlyother antiquities existed, including a cairn, removed be-fore 1810 from the High Carricks Seal and Arms. WOODSTOCK, a bo-rough and market-town,hav-ing separate jurisdiction, andthe head of a union, locallywithin the liberty of the cityof Oxford, county of Ox-ford, 8 miles (N. N. W.)from Oxford, and 62 (W. ) from London ; contain-ing 1412 inhabitants. Thistown is of Saxon origin, andwas called by that peopleVudestoc, signifying a woodyplace. It appears to have been chosen at an early pe-riod as an abode of royalty, and the manor-house, asit was called, is supposed to have been built upon thesite of a Roman villa. Alfred the Great resided herewhilst translating Boethius : Et
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