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MELKSHAM , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:Westbury See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Wiltshire, See also:England, 954 M. W. of See also:London by the See also:Great Western railway. ,Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (19o1), 2450. It lies in a valley sheltered by steep See also:chalk hills on the See also:east, its old-fashioned See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone houses lining a single broad See also:street, which crosses the Upper See also:Avon by a See also:bridge of four See also:arches. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church preserves some remnants of See also:Norman See also:work and a Perpendicular See also:south See also:chapel of rare beauty. Melksham possesses See also:cloth-See also:mills where coco-See also:nut fibre and See also:hair cloth are See also:woven, See also:flour-mills and dye-See also:works. On the See also:discovery of a saline See also:spring in 1816, See also:baths and a See also:pump-See also:room were opened, but although two other springs were found later, the See also:attempt to create a fashionable See also:health resort failed. The surrounding See also:deer-See also:forest was often visited by See also:Edward I. Lacock See also:Abbey, 3 M. distant, was founded in 1232 for See also:Austin canonesses, and dissolved in 1539. Portions of the monastic buildings remain as picturesque fragments in and near the See also:modern See also:mansion called Lacock Abbey.
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