wiki-illiam #109: q8

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8. In a descriptive handbook, published 150 years ago, to what places were the following words applied:

i: "It is the largest piece of artificial water in the kingdom"?
ii: "… employed in the salmon and eel fisheries, and manufacture of paper, soap, candles and leather"?
iii: "… several important mines … producing tin, copper, nickel, with clay, and china stone for the Staffordshire potteries"?
iv: "Excellent bacon and hams are cured here, and vast numbers of small cattle pass this way to be fattened for market in Norfolk and Essex"?
v: "A bath-house has been built over some valuable springs which rise from the pits, and are very beneficial in cases of scrofula and similar complaints"?
vi: "… one mass of dilapidation and filth; the old crumbling houses being used by the poor wherever they can find something like a roof to cover them"?
vii: "… by day it will be found dirty and irregularly built, without order or management, decent roads or footpaths, no supply of water"?
viii: "… there are no roadside inns worth the name; the ale is wretched stuff, and it is safest to take provisions with you on an excursion"?
ix: "… formerly noted for wire works, but now a seat of the linen trade, especially diapers, drills, ducks, ticks etc"?
x: "No particular manufacture, but celebrated for its cakes and brawn"?

Bradshaw: completed

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