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Place name County Entry Source Bullocks Hall Northumberland Bullocks Hall , township, Warkworth par., N. Northumberland, 7 miles SE. of -Alnwick, 210 ac., pop. 11. Bartholomew BULLOCK'S HALL Northumberland BULLOCK'S HALL , a township in Warkworth parish, Northumberland; adjacent to the Northeastern railway, 7 miles SSE of Alnwick. Acres Imperial DERBY Derbyshire DERBY , a town and a district in Derbyshire. The town stands in a valley on the banks of the Derwent Imperial FAULKBOURN Essex Hall, now the seat of the Rev. W. T. Bullock, was originally built in 1440, by Sir R. Montgomery; retains Imperial ISLINGTON Middlesex bullocks, 34, 980 sheep, 1, 425 calves, and 900 pigs, besides resting places for 3, 000 bullocks and 8, 160 sheep; includes slaughterhouses, a meat market, water posts, and other app1iances; has, in the centre, a clock tower, 150 feet high, surrounded by banking houses, railway offices, an electrictelegraph station, and other business apartments; and has also two taverns at the N side, and public houses at the angles. Both business and amusements are connected with the Agricultural Hall Imperial NEATH Glamorgan Bullock Webster, who proposed to turn it into a university; and was put up for sale in 1860. Remains of the castle, including a good gateway and towers, still exist in the centre of the town, but amount to a mere shell, and are surrounded by low dwellings of artizans. The ruins of theabbey are extensive; retain an original crypt, and otheroriginal portions of so fine a character as to have induced Leland to describe the pile as "once the fairest inall Wales; " consists largely of parts of the church, inearly English and early decorated architecture; and include buildings Imperial QUEEN'S County Laoighis QUEEN'S County, an inland county of the province of LEINSTER, bounded on the east by the counties of Kildare Lewis:Ireland RADWINTER Essex Hall, Bendysh Hall, and the Hill are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £566.* Patron, alternately Trustees of Lord Maynard's heirs and Rev. W. T. Bullock Imperial ROSCOMMON Roscommon ROSCOMMON (County of), an inland county of the province of CONNAUGHT, bounded on the north by the county of Leitrim Lewis:Ireland
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