vil., 3% miles SE. of Grantham; P.O.; in vicinity is
Somerby Fark, seat.

Somcrcotcs, vil., Alfreton par., Derbyshire, 2 miles
SE. of Alfreton; P.O.

Somercotes, North, par. and vil., Lincolnshire—
par., 4752 ac. land and 3870 water, pop. 1219; vil., 10
miles NE. of Louth; P.O., T.O.

Somercotes, South, par. and vil., Lincolnshire—
par., 2597 ac., pop. 435; vil., 2 miles S. of North Somer-
cotes ; P.O.

Somerden, hundred, partly in Aylesford lathe but
mostly in Sutton at Hone lathe, Kent, 18,473 ac., pop.
4384; contains 4 pars, and a part.

Somerford, township, Astbury par., Cheshire, 3
miles NW. of Congleton, 1261 ac., pop. 78; contains
Somerford Park, seat.

Somerford, Great (or Broad Somerford), par. and
vil. with ry. sta. (Somerford), Wilts, on river Avon, 3
miles SE. of Malmesbury, 1527 ac., pop. 550; P.O.

Somerford, Little, par. and vil., Wilts, adjacent to
Great Somerford, 1376 ac., pop. 379; P.O.

Somerford Booths, township, Astbury par., Che-
shire, adjacent to Somerford township, 1306 ac., pop.
216; contains Somerford Booths Hall, seat.

Somerford Hall, seat, 1 m. E. of Brewood, Stafford.

Somerford Keynes, par. and vil., Wilts, 4 miles S.
of Cirencester, 1573 ac., pop. 322.

Somergill, stream, in E. of Radnorshire, running to
the Lugg near Presteigne.

Somerhill Honse, seat of the Goldsmid family, 1%
mile S. of Tunbridge, Kent.

Somcrlcy Park, seat of the Earl of Normanton,
Hants, on river Avon, 2 miles NAV. of Ringwood ; the
picture gallery contains many masterpieces of art.

Somerleyton, par. and vil. with ry. sta., Suffolk—
par., 1410 ac., pop. 597; vil., 6 m. NW. of Lowestoft;
P.O., T.O.; near the vil. is Somerleyton Hall, seat.

Somers Town, 2 eccl. dists. (Christchurch and St
Mary), St Pancras par. and bor., Middlesex, in N. of
London, pop.—Christchurch, 5153 ; St Mary, 9889.

Soiucrsall Herbert, par., Derbyshire, 3 miles NE.
of Uttoxeter, 715 ac., pop. 107; P.O.

Soiuersby, par., Lincolnshire, 6 miles NE. of Horn-
castle, 600 ac., pop. 43; contains Soiuersby Honse,
seat. Lord Tennyson (born 1809), the poet, is a native.

Somerset, maritime co. in SW. of England, bounded
N. and NE. by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of
the Severn, and from NE. round to SAV. by the counties
of Gloucester, Wilts, Dorset, and Devon; greatest
length, N. and S., 43 miles; greatest breadth, E. and
AV., 67 miles; area, 1,049,812 ac., pop. 469,109. The
coast line is generally low and marshy in the E., but
lined with lofty slate cliffs in the AV. The interior
consists of ranges of hills separated by valleys, or by
extensive low marshy flats. The principal ranges are
the Mendip Hills, the Polden Hills, the Quantock Hills,
the Brendon Hills, and Exmoor. The chief rivers are
the Avon and the Parret (with its tributaries the Yeo or
Ivel, Isle, and Tone), the former forming the boundary
on the NE., the latter traversing the centre of the co.;
the other streams are the Yeo, Ax, and Brue. Both
soil and climate are well adapted for agriculture, par-
ticularly in the low alluvial tracts; and in the Yale of
Taunton heavy crops of the finest wheat are raised.
The rich meadows rear large numbers of cattle, and the
hilly grounds are pastured with numerous flocks of
sheep. (For agricultural statistics, see Appendix.) In
the E. of the co. are some small isolated coal-
fields, the most southerly in England, the quarries
which furnish the famous Bath stone, and a large
development of magnesian limestone; the W. of the
co. consists chiefly of slaty rocks, forming the wild
moorlands of Exmoor. The chief minerals worked
are lead, iron, and slate. The principal mfrs. are
woollen and worsted goods, gloves, lace, linen, crape,
silk, paper, glass, and bath-bricks. There are salmon,
herring, and other fisheries in the Bristol Channel.
An important chain of internal communication is formed
by the Yeo and Parret navigation and the Glastonbury
Canal. The co. contains 40 hundreds, 2 liberties, 489
pars, with parts of 3 others, the pari, and mun.
bors. of Bath (2 members) and Taunton (1 member), and
the mun. bors. of Bridgwater, Chard, Glastonbury,

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