a market-town of the hundred of Hem- lingford, in the county of Warwick, 104 miles from Lon- don. It is a well-built town, situated on a hill, at the bottom of which runs the river from whence it takes its name. It has a market on Wednesday. The population in 1811 amounted to 1639, in 1821 to 1760, and in 1831 to 1853.