NORTH. 157 
NORTH FO'RELAND. See Foreland, vol. vii. 
p. 563 - 
NORTH HAMP'STEAD, a townlhip in Queen’s 
county, Long ifland, New York; containing 2413 in¬ 
habitants, of whom 269 are (laves. 
NORTH HA'VEN POI'NT, a cape on thefouth coaft 
of England, at the entrance of Pool Bay : eight miles eall 
of Pool. 
NORTH HEAD', a cape on the north-eaft coaft of 
New Holland, and north-weft point of Buftard Bay. 
Lat. 24. S. 
NORTH HEAD', one of the fmaller Orkney Iflands. 
Lat. 58. 38. N. Ion. 2. 55. W. 
NORTH HUNTINGDON, a townftiip in Weftmore- 
land county, Pennfylvania, including 1484 inhabitants. 
NORTH I'SLAND, a (mall illand in the Eaftern In¬ 
dian Sea, near the weft coaft of Borneo. Lat. 1. 22. S. 
Ion. 109. 5, E. 
NORTH I'SLAND, a fmall ifland near the fouth coaft 
of Celebes. Lat. 5. 38. S. Ion. 120. 48. E. 
NORTH I'SLAND, a fmall ifland near the fouth-weft 
coaft of the ifland of Bouton. Lat. 5. 33. S.. Ion. 122. 
50. E. 
NORTH I'SLAND, a fmall ifland in the North Pacific 
Ocean, in Dixon’s Entrance. Lat. 54. 20. N. Ion. 133. 
10. W. 
NORTH I'SLAND, an ifland in the Atlantic, near the 
coaft of United America, at the mouth of the Great 
Pedee River, near the coaft of South Carolina. Lat. 33. 
20. N. Ion. 79. 3. W. 
NORTH I'SLAND, a fmall ifland in the Pacific Ocean, 
difcovered by Capt. King in 1779. Lat. 25. 14. N. Ion. 
341. 30 . E. 
NORTH I'SLAND, a fmall ifland in the Eaftern In¬ 
dian Sea. Lat. 5. 38. S. Ion. 105. 43. E. 
NORTH KE'Y, a fmall ifland in the bay of Honduras. 
Lat. 17. 24. N. Ion. 87. 57. W. 
NORTH KING'STOWN, a town of North America, 
in Wafliington-county, Rhode-ifland, which carries on a 
confiderable trade in the fifheries, and alfo fome to the 
Weft Indies ; its harbour is called Wickford : eight miles 
north-weft of Newport. The townftiip contains 2794 in¬ 
habitants. 
NORTH LE'ACH, a fmall market town in Gloucefter- 
fliire, fituated in a bottom amongft the Cotfwold-hills, 
near the fource of the little river Leach, at the diftance 
of twenty miles from the city of Gloucefter, and eighty- 
two miles from London. The manor was given by king 
Ethelred to the abbey at Gloucefter, to the monks of 
which Henry III. granted the privilege of two annual 
fairs, and a weekly market. After the diflolution the 
manor pafled into lay hands; it came into the Dutton 
family at the beginning of the laft century; and is now 
the property of James Dutton, who was created Lord 
Sherborne in 1784. 
About the beginning of the fixteenth century North 
Leach was of confiderable importance as a clothing-town; 
but, not having a fufficiency of water to fupply the in- 
creafed demand of the manufacture, it gradually declined. 
Here was formerly a public market for wool and cloth ; 
(bme of the buildings for the reception of tliefe articles 
are mentioned by Rudder, in his Hiftory of Gloucefter- 
ftiire, as remaining, having a fpacious area in the centre, 
and communicating, when he wrote, with each other by 
alleries. The town confifts chiefly of one long irregular 
reet: the market-houfe is an ancient ftruCture, fupported 
by columns ; near it are feveral fteps, and the bafe of an 
ancient crofs. The church, which is a fpacious edifice, 
confifts of a nave, chancel, and fide-aifles, an elegant fouth 
porch, and a lofty tower at the weft end, with open- 
worked battlements. The fouth porch is embelliflied 
with tracery, externally and internally. The whole fum- 
mit of the building is embattled, and ornamented with 
pinnacles. The church contains many fepulchral me¬ 
morials of opulent clothiers who lived in the fifteenth 
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century. A free grammar-fchool was founded here, iii 
1559, by Hugh Weftwood, efq. who endowed it with the 
impropriation of Chedworth, then producing nearly 120I. 
per annum: every fourth year an exhibitor is fent from 
this fchool to Pembroke-college, Oxford, on the foun¬ 
dation of George Townfend, efq. The civil government 
of the town is veiled in a bailiff and two conitables. In 
the population-return of the year 1811, the inhabitants 
of the pariflt are dated to be 647, occupying 142 houfes. 
The market is held on Wednefday; and here are now 
three annual fairs; viz. Wednefday before the 23d of 
April, the third Wednefday in May, and the Wednefday 
before the 29th of September. 
At Eaftington, a tything in North Leach parifli. Dr. 
Woodward made a great part of his valuable collection of 
foflils, which he prelented to the univerlity of Cambridge. 
This tything is alfo remarkable for being the fcite of an 
ancient encampment, called Norbury, which Baxter fup- 
pofes to be a corruption of Morbyrig, or the Great Camp. 
It was of an oblong form, incloled with a double agger, 
and contained about eighty acres; but, the ground having 
been long cultivated, the banks are in many parts levelled. 
From the proximity of this to the Fofs-way, it has been 
confidered as Roman. 
About five miles from North Leach is the village of 
Sherbourn, or Sherborne. The manor belonged to the 
abbey of Winchcomb from before the conqueft till the 
diflolution. It afterwards became the property of the 
Duttons; and is now poflefled by lord Sherborne, who has 
a feat here called Sherborne Houfe. It is an extenfive 
manfion, and confifts of two quadrangles; the eaftern 
and moft ancient part of which is fuppol’ed to have been 
the refidence of the abbots of Winchcomb. Two parks 
belong to this houfe, each between three and four miles 
in circumference; in one of them is a neat lodge. Sher¬ 
bourn was the birth-place of Dr. James Bradley, who 
fucceeded Dr. Halley as allronomer-royal at Greenwich. 
Rudge's Hijiory of Gloueefteijhire. Beauties of England , 
vol. v. 
NORTH LE'IGH, a village in Oxfordftiire, on the fouth- 
weft fide of Woodftock. The neighbourhood abounds 
with a peculiar kind of damp earth ; and alfo with a (lone- 
pyrites, which, on being expofed to the air, becomes en- 
crufted with a white fait that has the tafte of ink. 
This little village has lately acquired a certain degree 
of celebrity on account of the difcovery of a Roman 
villa in its neighbourhood in the year 1813. A clergy¬ 
man, travelling the field in purfuit of game, obferved 
feveral fragments of Roman bricks and pottery fcattered 
around ; and was induced to make inquiry of the labourers 
employed in ploughing : from them he learnt that their 
work was frequently impeded in confequence of the 
plotigh-fhare linking againft hard fubftances, and that 
bricks and wrought Hones were often turned up. This 
being communicated to the duke of Marlborough, ex¬ 
cavations were immediately made, and the foundations 
of a villa, of a quadrangular form, were difcovered. The 
fearch commenced at the north-weft corner, where a large 
teflellated pavement was found ; beneath which is an 
hypocauft, and at the wellern extremity its praefurnium. 
This floor is, confidering its extent, in a very high (late 
of prefervation, being entire, except at the entrance, and 
at the oppofite end near the praefurnium, where the earth 
has fallen in, and removed a few of the teflerse: over this 
room a thatched fhed has been ereCted to preferve it from 
the weather. There is a very accurate drawing of the 
pavement in the Aftrmolean Mufeum at Oxford. At the 
north-eaft corner there is a very large hot-bath, which 
meafures 21 feet by 17: the flues around it are entire, to¬ 
gether with the pillars of the hypocaull; but the pave¬ 
ment has been greatly damaged. Over this there is alfo 
a thatched (hed credited for its protection. In one of the 
rooms a confiderable quantity of wheat was found, which 
had been charred or fcorched, perhaps with a view to pre¬ 
vent it from vegetating. Many coins have been picked 
S s up; 
