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KEYNSHAM

Volume 9 · 74 words · 1797 Edition

a town of Somersetshire, 116 miles from London. It is a great thoroughfare in the lower road between Bath and Bristol. They call it proverbially smoky Keynsham, and with equal reason they might call it foggy. It has a fine large church, a stone bridge of 15 arches over the Avon to Gloucestershire, and another over the river Chew. Its chief trade is malting. It has a charity-school, a weekly market, and three fairs.