a market-town in the hundred of Plomsgate, of the county of Suffolk. It returns two members to parliament, who are nominally chosen by the owners of burgage houses, but in fact by the marquis of Hertford. It is a poor place, chiefly inhabited by fishermen. The markets are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays. It is distant 94 miles from London. The population has been as follows: in 1801, 504; in 1811, 1060; and in 1821, 1212.
a small town in the wapentake of Clare, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is on the river Ouse, and was formerly a Roman station, called Isurium Brigantium: near it are some remains of a druidical temple. It returns two members to parliament, who are nominally chosen by the occupiers of burgage tenures, but really by the owner of them, now the duke of Newcastle. The population has been as follows: in 1801, 445; in 1811, 464; and in 1821, 484. It is 208 miles from London.
ALDEA DEL Rio, a town of Spain, on the Guadalquivir, in the province of Cordova, with 3000 inhabitants.