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The likeness of Blomefield depicted in the form of the astronomer John Flamsteed, whom he was said to resemble, 1805 [note 1]. Rev. Francis Blomefield (23 July 1705 – 16 January 1752), FSA, Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk, was an English antiquarian who wrote a county history of Norfolk: An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk.
Guist (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ s t /) is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.It covers an area of 6.80 km 2 (2.63 sq mi) and had a population of 242 in 102 households at the 2001 census, [2] including Twyford and increasing slightly to a population of 250 in 110 households at the 2011 Census.
Elizabethtown, later renamed Columbia, was established on the banks of the Scuppernong River in 1793, and became the Tyrrell County seat in 1799. [1] Somerset Place State Historic Site, a representative antebellum plantation dating from 1785, is located near Columbia.
The rivers of central North Carolina rise on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge. The two largest of these are the Catawba River and the Yadkin River, and they drain much of the Piedmont region of the state. The major rivers of Eastern North Carolina, from north to south, are: the Chowan, the Roanoke, the Tar, the Neuse and the Cape Fear.
Columbia is the capital city of the U.S. state of South Carolina.With a population of 136,632 at the 2020 census, it is the second-most populous city in South Carolina. [7] The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, and a portion of the city extends into neighboring Lexington County.
Columbia Historic District is a national historic district located at Columbia, Tyrrell County, North Carolina. It encompasses 119 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Columbia. The district developed between about 1880 and 1944 and ...
North Carolina: A History. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-4219-2. Ready, Milton (2005). The Tar Heel State: A History of North Carolina. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 1-57003-591-1. Ward, H. Trawick; Davis Jr., R. P. Stephen (1999). Time Before History: The ...
Billingford is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Billingford is located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Dereham , with the civil parish being approximately 2.84 square miles (7.4 km 2 ) in area.