a town in Hampshire, seated on the river Wey; W. long. 0° 46'. N. lat. 51° 5'. It is governed by a constable; and consists of about 250 houses, indifferently built, chiefly laid out in one pretty broad street, a part of which only is paved. It has one church, a Presbyterian, and a Quaker's meeting, a famous free-school, a large manufacture of plain and figured bargons, ribbed druggers, and ferge de Nîmes; and round the town is a large plantation of hops.

or AVELTON, a village in Staffordshire, five miles north of Uttoxeter. There are the ruins of a castle here, which some would have to be built before the Norman conquest; but Dr Plot is pretty certain that it was erected by Theobald de Verdun, in the beginning. ALU [274] AMA

gaining of the reign of Edward II. A great part of the walls are still standing, but they are in a very ruinous condition.