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1 1 >N. 291 V.I. KIN K. lil.AXT'iN. or IlI.AKI.- :;shp. ill the par. ' 'f Doncaster, in the West . of York, miles to the E. of ]>on- OMter. I'.I.A 1 ! I" >N, :i vil. in tin' tnshp. of Winlat'.n, and par. Culliii. -it 6 -IT ward, in the' < of Durham, 4 miles to the W. of N It is Bituatcd near the river Tyne, and is a station on the istlo and Carlisle railway. It u not far from Axwcll Turk, the seat of Sir T. Clavering, liart. There are extensive coal works in the vicinity. BLAYNE, a hmlt in the par. of LJandebie, hund. of Iskenm n, in the no. of Carmarthen, South Wales, 4 nvr. UI.AVNKV. c.r 11I.AKNAU, a parcel of the par. of Uanfihangcl-Cwmdii, hund. of Crickhowell, in the co. of Brecknock, South Wales, 6 miles to the N. of < howcll. It is situated at the foot of the Black Monn-

BLAZE, or BLAZEY, ST., a par. in the eastern div. of the hund. of Powder, in the co. of Cornwall, 4 miles to the E. of St. Austell. It lies near the coast English Channel, on the banks of a small river which falls int.. the Buy ,,f ,s(. Austell, or Par Bay. The patr< i owes its name, and to d, ia said to have landed at this spot. The district is rocky, the surface consisting chiefly of i : sUtc. Tin and copper are abun- dant, .-mil the inhabitants are mostly employed in work- ing the mines. The living is a vie. * in the dioc. of Exeter, of the val. of 120, in the patron, of Major Carlyon. The church is dedicated to St. Blaise, whose effigy it contains. It has also a monument to Henry Scobell, treasurer and paymaster of the farmtiu in the reign of Queen Anne. There is also a district church at Par, or Biscovey, the living of which is a perpet. cur. val. 150, in the patron, of the crown and the Bishop of Exeter alternately. Them HI. ing to the Wesleyans, the Primitive and the Association Methodists. The parochial charities produce about 4 per annum. The principal seat in the vicinity ia Trogrclmn, a residence of Major on. Koselyon wag the seat of the I Scobells, but is now only a farmhouse. This par! the birthplace of the benevolent Ralph Allen, of Prior Park, near Bath, the original, as it is said, of Fielding's Allworthv, in "Tom Jones." He died in 1764. BLEAUON, a ]>ar. iu the hund. of Winterstoko, in the eo. of Somerset, 6 miles to the W. of Axl Weston-su < its post town. It is situa; the i i iiich is here navigable, and i limits, of Oldmixton and Shiplct. The Bristol ami r railway runs through the parish. Thelivi rect. in the dioc. of Bath anil Wells, of tin animal val. 11 the patron, of the Bishop of Winchester. The church in . Bleadon was held by Meric Casaubon, a le. on of a grc iter tatlfir, Isaac Casaubon. 'I in 1071. There are remains of ' *ond several barrows in the neighbourhood, i'ns, and other relics have been found. I'.I.KAN, HI. KAN CIU'IICH, ,,1-ST. cn.SMfS AND I I AN IN Jill, BLEAN, a par. in I Whi: 'in of St. Augustine, in the co. of Kent, 2 miles to the N.W. of Canterbury. The Whit it. The pa: ' if woodland which belongs 1" the crown. I; re, and part Hlean is the seat of a law Union. The lisin- i-i a vie. 111 the dim bun-, of t of K 1 turch is <: in, anil has several monun I'.I.KAN, HIi, II .,,,.1 I.nW. l,inlls.'in the tnshp. of i par. of Aysgarth, wap. of Hang, in the . not far from Axkrigg. iir.Nlilil i is. or subdivisions of tlie lathe <,| Si , in the CO. of Kent, situated in the eastern div. of the co., and. bounded on the X. by the Thames, on the tho liundM. of and Pn D the W. ).y the lumd It contains the par 1 loath, nth, tSturr This lnind. covers an urea of about 18,800 actn. H1.K.>I'.Y, a limit, in the par. i of Wraggoo, in tho co. of Lin- i'_v. It once formed a separate pui BLEASliY, a par. in the wap. of Thuri^arton, co. of Nottingham, 3 n. post town. It lies on the west lank of tl and is a station on tho N : mcoln i of the Midland railway. 'I "n, and Notown arc i living is a vie.* in the di . in the patron, of th' Church of Southwell. The chnn i licated to ' I .y Hall. About a mile from ford ferry i Bleasby ia Rufibrd hounds. BLKASIi.M.!. of Amoundemess, in the co. i 16 E. of Garstang. '1 ivo tract o Fell, the highest jmint, to the he; It formerly con-t now almost intn cnr. in the dioc tho patron, of tho Vicar of Lane endowments of the township the produce of a bequest by 1702, and which is appJ school and parth I'.I.KATAKN, a limit, in i Brough. It is seated on tl. country abounding in 1 tigcs of a convent founded in i 1 '.viand .' of Bleatiini I'.I.KCIIINdlMiN.

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Milxlivisions of tho co. of (ilouccster, western div. of tho eo., and IH.I. S. by tin.' hund. of Wrsthn: . a limit, in ; . in the co. of < on the son' .mid. of . CO. ': iiim, ."; mi I'linee's IJi.shori MI. Itidge. The living is a vie.* in ti i 17-">, in ' h is dcdicjili 1 to tin ll..ly ' Crone tamily. ! ng a ]HH> i id woo to tii thyme "They v.-hn live and do n! tall into th' Thopof.l Lei.. w tl nd.iwmi nts of Bledlow amount to SOpw r.i.KHNiH H , i lil.Kl.NK, a hmlt. united with Llan, in the J