lAZETTEER, 



Great iquantitics oi"' timber and corn from the ad- 

 jacent country are fent in bargc^ by its river and 

 the Thames to London. 



GwtEK, (Glouc. E.) 2i village with a fmall har- 

 bour on the Br^fto Channel, and a few fmall coaft- 

 ing veflels, with which it is ranked as a port in the 

 cullom-houfe accounts. 



GuENNAP, {Corn. E.) a village in the center of 

 the greatell copper mines in the fouth-weft part of 

 England. 



Haddington, the capital of the fiiire of the 

 fame name, has had a woolen manufadlure during 

 almolt two centuries : but, notwithftandingfeveral 

 efforts to fupport it, it has funk almoft to nothing. 



Halesowen, [Shrop. E.) a fmall town, with a 

 manufafture of nails. 



J'alesworth, i^Suff". E.) a confiderable town 

 on the River Blyth, about ten miles above South- 

 T^old, with which it communicates by a canal. 

 Much yarn is fpun here and in the neiglibourhood. 



Halifax, {Tori, IV. R.) a flourifhing town 

 on the River Calder, which-carries failing veffels 

 up to it. According to Camden, the woolen ma- 

 nufacture was eftablilhed here about the beginning 

 of the fixteenth century : and it is now the center 

 of the manufafture of Huffs, comprehending cali- 

 mancoes, everlaftings, ruffels, armines for Spain, 

 tammies, durants, (halloons, now little ufed in this 

 •ountry, and moftly (hipped for the Levant, a kind 

 of them 50 inches broad for Holland, &c. Yard- 

 wide cloths and kerfeys,.and alfo fome broad cloths, 

 are made here ; and of late much more has been 

 done in them than in fluffs. There are alfo manu- 

 fadures of blankets and carpets ; and the cottoi> 

 manufafture is extending into the neighbourhood. 

 It is not very long fince a cloth hall was erefted in 

 this town. It differs from thofe of Leeds and 

 Huddersfield in being divided into 315 apartments, 

 of which each manufafturcr has one appropriated 

 to himfelf ; whereas in the others, thougli each 

 clothier has his own diftinft flail, the whole, are 

 open to the infpeftion of all comers at once, as in 

 an open market. Halifax is not fo large a town 

 as might be expected : but the whole country 

 around it, though not naturally fertile, is fo thick 

 fettled, that it has the appearance of a vail draggl- 

 ing town. 



Halsted, {E/f E.) 3 pleafant town, with man- 

 ufadlures of baizes and ferges, and a confiderable 

 market for corn, 



Haltwesel, {Northumh. E.J a good town on 

 the South Tine, with a manufadturc of baizes. 



Hamilton, f Lan. S.j a fmr-iU ha.jjfome town 

 «n the fouth bank of the Clyde, with very little 

 trade, the only manufaiSlures being fome weaving, 

 chiefly in cotton, together with tanning and di tiling 

 leather, fome of which is fent to London. 



HaRBURGH, orMARKETHARBURGH (Leic-E.) 



ha» fome manufaftures of filk goods and flight 

 woolens. 



Harlinc East, fNorf. E.J a town noted for 

 linen and linen yarn, fold at its markets. 



Harptree, fSom. E.J n village near Wells, 

 has mines of lapis calaminaris, in which are alfo 

 found maiiganefe and many beautiful fpars. 



Hartland, (Dei). E.) a fmall town on the 

 Britlol channel, has fome fifhing bufinefs, and cures 

 fome herrings in the feafon 



Hartlepool, (Dur. E.J a town fituated on a 

 fmall, but lofty, peninfula, has a pretty good har- 

 bour, with a road-llead affording fafe anchorage. 

 Coin, coal, and lime, are flu'pped from it; and 

 many of the inhabitants follow the fifhing bufinefs. 

 — It is now in contemplation to convert the pool, 

 called the Slake, between the peninfula and the 

 main land into a fpacious wet dock, by means of a 

 wall with a gate acrofs the narrow mouih of it. 



Hartley, (Northimb. E.J a fmall town with 

 a harbour in the coal trade. In the year 1799 

 there were fhipped from it and Blythe nook, 26,642 

 chaldrons for London, 15,047 for other Britifh 

 ports, and 127 for foreign countries. 



Harwich, ('^ ^.y a handfome town, fituat- 

 ed on a point at the mouths of the Orwell and the 

 Stour, which form a fafe harbour, fnfficiently cap- 

 acious to contain four or five hundred veffels at 

 anchor. This port is the flation of the pofl office 

 packets for Helvoetfluys, and has many veffels, a 

 confiderable number of which are employed in the 

 fifhery, which, together with fhip-building, and ■ 

 their attendant branches of induftry, and the ac- 

 commodation of travelers to and from the con- 

 tinent, and of the company attradled by the con- 

 venience of fea bathing, conflitute the chief em- 

 ployment of the inhabitants. 



Hastings, {Sujf. E.) one of the original 

 Cinque ports, has a harbour now only fit for fmall 

 veffels ; and its trade is accordingly reduced to 

 fifhing and fome intercourfe with London. 



Haverford-west, {Pemi. IK) a handfome. 

 profperous, town, fituated oa the River Dugledheu^ 

 and a county of itfelf. 



Hawick, f Roxh S.J a pleafant town in the 

 heart of the fouth part of Scotland, with manu- 

 fadures of carpets •, ferges for covering carpets, 

 rugs, inkle ware, ilockings, and narrow woolen 

 cloth ; to which may be added nurfery plants, 

 which are fent by Meffieurs Dickfons to all parts 

 of Scotland, England as far as York, North Wales, 

 &c. 



Headojj, {Tori, E. R.) a fmall town on a 

 rivulet running into the Humber, was once a con- 

 fiderable port, but has long been declining by the 

 fea choking up its harbour, and cannot now be call- 

 ed a port at all. 



He L FORD, [Corn. E.) 3 village with a good 



• The carpet bufinefs was tegun in 1760 by fou. partners upon the fmall capital of j(^400. Thejr allowed all the pro. 

 fits to accumulate ; and in 1778 their capital was £4,000. [X«4'* 7V«r, f. 47.] 



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