The general gazetteer: or, Compendious geographical dictionary : containing a description of all the empires, kingdoms, states ... in the known world ; together with the government, policy, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants ; the extent, bounds, and natural productions of each country ; and the trade, manufactures, and curiosities, of the cities and towns ; their longitude, latitude, bearing and distance in the English miles from remarkable places ; as also the sieges they have undergone, and the battles fought near them : including an authentic account of the counties, cities, and market-towns in England and Wales ; as also the villages, with the days on which the fairs are kept
Brookes, R. (Richard), époque 1750