APPENDIX, N« IV. 



COMMERCIA] 



Wilton, (Wi!,'. E.) a fmall town, noted for a 

 very confideiable manufaftuie of carpets of the 

 kind known by its name. 



WiNCHELSEA, fSi!^. E.) formei-Jy a town of 

 confiderable importance, and one of the Cinque 

 ports, has been reduced, by encroachments and re- 

 ceffes of the fea, to a fmall town of about 500 

 people, witfe fcarcely any trade or manufaftures, 

 that of cambric, which was begim in the year 

 1761, having been given up. 



Winchester, {^liamp. E.) nn ar.ticnt epifcopal 

 city, fituated about 15 miles above Southampton 

 on the Itchin, or Aire, which is navigable for 

 barges thus far, and formerly carried them as high 

 as Alresford, but the upper part of the navigation 

 is now negk-fted. The city has very little of man- 

 iifattures or trade of any kind, except fome deal- 

 ing in wofcl, and the fale of checfe and cattle at the 

 fair. 



Windsor, [Berk. E.) a large town on the 

 fouth bank of the Thames, has a great market for 

 corn, and no other trade of any confequence, ex- 

 cept what is occafioned by the refidence cf the 

 royal family in the neighbourhood. 



Winlaton, (Dur. £. ) a village near the fonth 

 tank of the Tine, containing about 1,500 inhabit- 

 ants, moftly blackfmiths, employed in the great 

 iron manufaftory eftablillied by Sir Anibrofe 

 Crawler. The chief articles made here are nails, 

 files, edge tools, and hoes, which are famous in 

 all parts of the continent of America and the Weil 

 Indies. 



WiNSFORD, (Chef. E.) a village with a fliare of 

 the fait trade. See Salt-works. 

 > WiRKSWORTH (Dcrh. E.) is a good town, 

 wherein the court for determining difputes among 

 the miners is held, and which may on every ac- 

 count be efteemed the capital of the mining count- 

 ry in Derby-fliire. The various kinds of lead ore 

 are here fmelted {\. e. the lead is feparated from 

 the heterogeneons matter) by furnaces blown by 

 bellows worked by a water-wheel. The quantity of 

 lead obtained from tlie Derby-fiiire mines is about 

 five or lix thoufand tnns in a year : there is about 

 tl-.e fame quantity of iron j and about 500 tuns of 

 ealamine. Mill-ftones and grind-ftoucs are alfo 

 made in this neighbourhood. A cotton manufac- 

 tory employs about 200 people here ; and fome 

 are employed in combing wool. 



Wisbech, (Camb. E.) a well-built town, fiUi- 

 ated in the heart of the fen country, and amidll a 

 combination of natural and factitious rivers, which 

 are moftly na'/igable for veffcls, larger or fmaller. 



The town has fome coalling veffels, which carry 

 iVe corn, butter, &c. of the adjacent country to 

 London and other places, and bring all kinds of 

 oeceflary articles in return, for the fupply of the 

 great extent of country to which the barges have 

 accefs by inland navigation. 



WiTHAM, (Ej/'. E.J a neat little town, with a 

 fharc of the baize manufafture. 



WivENHOE, (-F^ E.) the harbour ofCokhellcr 



for large vefiels, Leing abont four miles lower ori 

 the river. Here the celebrated Colchefter oyftcrs 

 are packed in fmall can<s for carriage or export- 

 ation. 



WivELScoMBE, ( Som. E.J a thriving town, 

 with manufaflures of blankets, coatings, kerfeys, 

 baize, and other coarfe woolen articles. 



W0J.VERHAMPTON, [Stajf. E.) a large and 

 profpcrous town, has great manufaftures in iron, 

 brafs, japanned ware, and toys, executed in gold, 

 filver, brafs, mother of pearl, &c. The lock- 

 fmiths are particularly ftilful.in conllrudling locks, 

 which are exceedingly curious, fome of them par- 

 taking of the nature of clock-work, and of verv 

 minute fize. A great part of the iron-mongery 

 ware is made by the farmers of the adjacent count- 

 ry, and fold by them to the great manufafturers. 

 In the year 1750 the town contained 7,454 in- 

 habitants, and before the commencement of the' 

 war in 1793 they were increafed to 18,500. Such 

 are the happy effefls of perfevering induftry and 

 ingenuity. Wolverliampton has the advantage of 

 very extenfive communication with moll; parts of 

 England by canals. 



The pariih of Wolverhampton contains a great 

 number of villages, all more or lefs engaged in 

 the fame branches of manufatlure ; and among 

 them Willenhall and Billion may be noted as the 

 moft confiderable. 



WooDBRiDGE, fSu/^l E.) 3 neat little town, 

 fituated about ten miles above the mouth of the 

 River Deben, which, though it runs but a fiiort 

 courfe, is navigable by veffels of confiderable 

 burthen up to the town. It has a convenient 

 quay, aad yards for building veffels, is ranked as 

 a port by the cuttom-houfe, and has a good num- 

 ber of veffels, which are employed moftly in coall- 

 ing, and trading to Holland, &c. Great quant- 

 ities of cheefe and butter are (hipped here. 



Woodstock, (Oxf. E.) a fmall town, noted 

 for works of fteel and poliflied iron, and ftill more 

 for gloves, which conftitute the chief bufineis of 

 the place. 



Woolwich, (Kent, E.) a large town on the 

 Thames, entirely occupied by the royal dock-yard, 

 and other ftores and works connefted with the 

 navy, and inhabited by people employed in the 

 feveral departments of building and fitting out 

 ftiips of war. In an adjoining field, called the 

 warren or park, a prodigious quantity of great 

 guns, balls, mortars, bombs, and other artilleiy, 

 are kept in conftant readinefs for fervice. 



Worcester, the capital of the county of the 

 fame name, is a large, antient, epifcopal, city, 

 fituated on the eaft fide of the River Severn, which 

 is navigable thus far by good floops, many of 

 them carrying top-fails, whereof 40 or 50 may be 

 feen at a time, whence the city might be fuppofed 

 to have a very great trade. I'he fale of hops is, 

 however, the principal branch of bulinefs in the 

 place. The woolen manufadlure was once very 

 flourilhing and extenfive here ; but now there is 



