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A Guide to All the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places
A Guide to All the Watering and SeaBathing Places Author:John Feltham Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [ 69 3 BRISTOL, HOT-WELLS, CLIFTON. Bristol, long accounted the second city in England for trade, wealth, and population, though now surpassed in al... more »l those respects by Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, lies in 51§dec; rees of north latitude, and 2 degrees 46 minutes west longitude from London, at th; e southern extremity of Gloucestershire, and the northern of Somersetshiie ; distant twelves miles from Bath; and by one road 117, by another 119, miles from the metropolis. Bristol, though its site is partly in two counties, was erected by Edward III. into an independent city and county of itself. 'I'he Froom'and the Avon wind their way through it: the latter is the principal mer; and at eight miles from its efflux into the Bristol Channel, or Severn Sea, this city is built in a most delightful and healthy country, surrounded According to the enumeration taken by authority of parliament in Kill, Bristol contains 71,279 inhahitants, and about 11,009 houses ; but as this account harely includes the parishes within the walls, the real population of Bristol, taking in the out-parishes, cannot be less than 100,000. From the little interest felt by the churchwardens and others employed to make tlie return, this number certainly fell very short of the truth. Instead of previously announcing their intention by the delivery of blank schedules, they abruptly applied at the door of each house, and being received (among the working- classes especially) by females, who suspected their purpose to be that of taking down names for the militia- hallot or a | nll -tux, they met with more anxiety to conceal than readiness to disclose the full number of resi -70 ' General Description. [bristol with verdaut hills, which in the north and east rise to a towering height, and shel...« less