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WOOD-BURCOTE. 857 WOODCOTE. duce, groceries, wine, and spirits. The principal public buildings arc the custom-house, public lecture hall, erected in 1851, with mechanics' institution and reading- room attached ; the old sessions-house for St. Ethel- dred's liberty, built in 1587, and lately restored ; a bridewell, three commercial banks, and- a savings- bank ; there are also corn-mills, a brewery, mailings, iron-foundry, whiting factory, and a rope walk. Quarter sessions are held regularly, as also a county -court monthly, and petty sessions every Thursday. The town has a small local trade, being advantageously situated in a corn and grazing district. Its population in 1851 was 5,161, but in 1861 it had decreased to 4,513. The living is a perpet. cur. endowed with the rectorial tithes, in the dioc. of Norwich, val. 390. The church, d_edicated to St. Mary the Virgin, is a structure of the time of Edward III., and was repaired in 1839 at the expense of G. Thomas, Esq. Prior to the Reformation it had an image of the Virgin and four altars, and con- tains several brasses, now defaced, monuments to Jeffery Pittman, a benefactor to the town, and to the Carthews of Woodbridge Priory. There is besides a church built in 1845, and dedicated to St. John. The Independents, Wesleyans, and Society of Friends have chapels. There is a free grammar school, founded by Dorothy Seckford in 16G2, and remodelled and incorporated in the Seck- ford charity, 1865, which charity has more than 3,000 per annum, the greater part being the endowment of Seckford's hospital or almshouses, founded in 1587 by Thomas Seckford, Esq., Master of Bequests, for 62 widowers or bachelors. The present structure, which Stands near the site of the old pile, has a chapel and a terrace walk in front. The new cemetery, situated a little to the S.W. of the town, was tastefully laid out in 1856, and has two mortuary chapels in the Norman style of architecture. Woodbridge gives name to a Poor-law Union, comprising 46 parishes, but the union poor- house is situated in the parish of Nacton. It is also the head of a New County Court district and superintendent registry. In the immediate vicinity of the town are many seats, and at Mr. Whincopp's is a collection of British, Roman, and Saxon antiquities discovered in the neighbourhood. At Kingston, commonly called Kyson, in the blue clay, Mr. Colchester first dis- covered the two rare fossils hyrteotherium and meyacus, or monkey. C. Saxton, a native of this town, pub- lished the first county maps in the reign of Elizabeth. Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet, died here in 1849, and lies buried in the graveyard of the Friends' meeting- house; Urabbo was also a surgeon's apprentice here. Thursday is market day, when business ia chiefly done in corn. Fairs are held on Lady-day, chiefly for horses, the first Tuesday in April, and on Michael- mas-day, and the day following, in lieu of the 23rd of October. WOOD-BURCOTE, a hmlt. in the par. of Towcester, CO. Northampton, 1 mile S. of Towcester. WOODBURN, a rivulet in co. Antrim, Ireland, on which are largo calico works, about 2 miles from Car- rickfergus. VOODBURN, EAST and WEST, hmlts. in the par. of Corsenside, co. Northumberland, 4 miles N.E. of Bellingham, on the river Reed. The Wansbeck Valley railway has a station here. WOODBURY, a par. in the E. div. of Budleigh hnnd., co. Devon, 3 miles S.E. of Topsham, 7 S.E. of Exeter, and 6 N.E. of Exmouth. At Woodbury Road is a station on the Exeter and Exmouth branch of the London and South- Western railway. It is a large rillagc, or rather decayed market town, situated on the <f the navigable river Exe, which bounds the i on the W. Petty sessions are hold here every alternate Thursday. The population in 1861 was 1,966. Overlooking the village is an ancient earthwork, called Woodbury Castle, being an irregular double-ditched camp of British origin, on the summit of Wood- bury common, from whence is a view of the val- leys of the Exe and Otter. The par. includes the chplry. of Woodbury Saltcrton, recently constituted a separate ecclesiastical district, and the hmlts. of Ebford, Exton, Grindle, Gulliford, Nutwell, and Woodmar.ton. There are several scats, as Nutwell Court, Upper Nutwell, and Ebford Barton. The living is a perpet. cur.* in the dioc. of Exeter, val. 150, in the patron, of the Vicars Choral of Exeter cathedral. The church, dedicated to St. Swithin, contains monuments to the Prideaux and Pollexfen families, and the matrix of an ancient brass to the Haydons. There is besides a small church entirely free, built by subscription in 1851. The Unitarians have a chapel at Gulliford. There are National and endowed schools for both sexes. A plea- sure fair is held on Whit- Wednesday. The Hon. T. Rolle is lord of the manor. WOODBURY, a hmlt. in the par. of Gamlingay, co. Cambridge, 6 miles S.W. of Caxton. WOODBURY, or WOODLEY, a tythg. in the par. of Romsey Extra, co. Hants, adjoining Romsey. WOODBURY-SALTERTON, an ecclesiastical dis- trict, formerly a chplry. in the par. of Woodbury, co. Devon, 6 miles S.E. of Exeter, and 4 from Topsham. The ecclesiastical district, which has a population of 498, comprises portions of the parishes of Woodbury, Colaton-Raleigh, and Aylesbeare consolidated. The church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was built in 1844, at the cost of Miss M. Pidsley, of Greendale. There are also free schools, built and endowed by the same lady in 1846. WOODGHESTER, a par. in the hund. of Longtree, co. Gloucester, 2J miles S.W. of Stroud. This place is sup- posed to derive its name from having been the site of a Roman station, where a tesselated pavement 48J feet square, with a bath, pottery, coins, and other signs of a large Roman villa, were found. The village is situatod on an eminence forming part of the Cotswold range of hills. There are several woollen mills. Spring Park, the seat of the Earl of Ducie, anciently belonged to the Maltravers, from whom it came to the Arundels, Huntlcy s, and D uciea. The living is a rect. * in the dioc. of Gloucester and Bristol, val. 350. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, contains a monument to Sir G. Huntley. The Priory, late the seat of Sir S. Wathen, is now a monastery. The Bap- tists have a chapel. There are several schools partially endowed. WOODCHURCH, a par. in the hund. of Lower Wirrall, co. Chester, 3J miles S.W. of Birkenhead, and 7 N.W. of Great Neston. The par. comprises the tnshps. of Arrow, Barnston, Irby, Landican, Noctorum, Pensby, Prenton, Thingwall, and Woodchurch. Tho living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Chester, val. .829. The church of the Holy Cross contains four modern painted windows, and an old sculptured font. There are free, National, and Sunday schools. The charities produce about 65 per annum, of which 50 is the endowment of Greave's free school. WOODCHURCH, a par. in the hund. of Blackbourne, lower div. of Scray lathe, co. Kent, 5 miles N.E. of Tenterden, and 4 from Appledore railway station. It is situated on the borders of the Shirley Moor, containing, in 1841, a population of 1,278, and in 1861, of 1,262, the decrease being mainly owing to emigration. The soil is heavy. Part of the land is in hop-gardens. Traces of an ancient Roman road have been discovered in this parish. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Canter- bury, val. 610. The church, dedicated to All Saints, contains brasses of a priest, date 1320, an old font, and numerous monuments, including those of Sir Simon Woodchurch, knighted by Edward I. at the siege of Caerlaverock, and surnamed Malleut Scolorum, and Sir John Clarke. WOODCOMBE, a hmlt. in the par. of Miuehead, co. Somerset, near Minehead. WOODCOT, a lib. in the par. of South Stoke, hund. of Dorchester, co. Oxford, 5 miles S.E. of Wallingford. It has a chapel dedicated to St. Leonard. WOODCOTE, a chplry. in the par. of Sheriff-Hales, Newport div. of South Bradford hund., co. Salop, 3 miles S.E. of Newport. WOODCOTE, a tnshp. in the par. of St. Chad, co.