. The railroad book of England: historical, topographical and picturesque; descriptive of the cities, towns, country seats, and other subjects of local interest. With a brief sketch of the lines in Scotland and Wales . e railway between Boxmoor and Berkliamjistead to thesouth-west. Bevington, Charles Henry Moore, Esq.; AshPark, , Bart.; Lat imers, Hon. Charles Comptou Cavendish, 21 m. kings LANGLEY STA. Cross OraiulJunction Caunl. 2t^ m. BOX MOORSTATION. VIA BIRMINGHAM. 25 13 m. kings STA. Cross GrandJunction Canal. 2+1 m. BOX MOORSTATICS. 61 ni. St. Alban
. The railroad book of England: historical, topographical and picturesque; descriptive of the cities, towns, country seats, and other subjects of local interest. With a brief sketch of the lines in Scotland and Wales . e railway between Boxmoor and Berkliamjistead to thesouth-west. Bevington, Charles Henry Moore, Esq.; AshPark, , Bart.; Lat imers, Hon. Charles Comptou Cavendish, 21 m. kings LANGLEY STA. Cross OraiulJunction Caunl. 2t^ m. BOX MOORSTATION. VIA BIRMINGHAM. 25 13 m. kings STA. Cross GrandJunction Canal. 2+1 m. BOX MOORSTATICS. 61 ni. St. Albans. The town is built on the site of the ancient towniof Verulam. It sends two meniliers to Parliament. Tlic market-days areWednesday and Saturday. In the year 795, OfTa, King of the Mercians,erected a monastery in the place where John Alban suffered martyrdom, andnear to which the town was afterwards built. The abbot was reputed, byfavour of Pope Adrian IV., who was born near Verulam, the first in dignityof all the abbots. The church of this monastery is still in being, and muchadmired for its size, beauty, and antiquity. (See also Great Northern.) A few score yards before reaching the Kings Langley Station, is. THE booksellers PKOVIDENT HETKEAT, consisting of seven houses and a lodge, for the occupation of decayedmembers of the Booksellers Pro\ddcnt Institution of London. Abbotts Langley, a parish, containing a population of 2,015. Thechurch is partly in the Norman and partly in the Eugbsh style of archi-tecture ; it has a square tower, surmounted by a short spire, and containssome handsome monuments and other sepulchral memorials. NicholasBreakspeare, who first introduced Christianity amongst the Noi-wegiaus,and the only Englislunan raised to the Popedom, was born in this parish,though the place from which he took his name is situated in the adjoiningparish of St. Michaels. He assiuned the title of Adrian IV., and waspoisoned by a citizen of Rome, whose sou he refused to cons
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