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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  NORTH CRAY LG_Ward	Parish-level Unit	CHISLEHURST AND SIDCUP UD (Local Government District)

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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BRECKNOCKSHIRE, Breconshire, or Brecon	Brecknockshire	north-eastward, across the county, to Builth; presenting abrupt acclivities to the NW, and gradual ones to the SE. A series of mountain masses and ridges, intersected by narrow valleys, occupies all the southern half of the county; culminating successively, from W to E, in the Talsarn mountain, the Capellante mountain, the Brecknock beacons, and Peny-cader-fawr, respectively 2,596, 2,394, 2,862, and 2,545 feet high; and exhibiting a great variety of form and character. The valleys are larger and more level than in some other parts of Wales; and, together. with the slopes	Imperial
  BROMLEY	Kent	Cray, Foots-Cray, and North-Cray. Acres, 39,927. Poor-rates in 1866, £14,191. Pop. in 1861, 20,368. Houses	Imperial
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	Cray, St. Paul's-Cray, and Keston; the vicarages of Addington, Bexley, Croydon, Cudham, Dartford, Erith, Hayes, Horton-Kirby, Orpington, Sutton-at-Home, West-Wickham, and Wilmington; and the p. curacies of Bexley-Heath, Bromley, Trinity-Bromley, Sidcup, St. Mary-Cray, Crocken-Hill, Southend-Croyden, Broadgreen-Croyden, Croyden-Common, Norwood-Croyden, South Norwood-Croyden, Shirley-Croyden, Downe, Farnborough, and Lamorbey. The deanery of North	Imperial
  Cray, North	Kent	Cray, North , par., W. Kent, on river Cray, 4½ miles NE. of Bromley, 1484 ac., pop. 635.	Bartholomew
  CRAY (North)	Kent	Cray, 1 mile NNE of Foots-Cray, and 3¼ N by E of St. Mary Cray r. station. Post town, Foots-Cray, under London, S. E. Acres, 1, 443. Real property, £4, 526. Pop., 578. Houses, 111. The property is divided among a few. North	Imperial
  CRAY (The)	Brecknockshire	CRAY (The) a rivulet of Brecon. It rises on the north side of Capellante mountain, and runs 6 miles northward	Imperial
  CRAY (The)	Kent	CRAY (The) , a rivulet of Kent. It rises in Orpington parish; and runs 8 miles north-north-eastward, past the Crays	Imperial
  Kent	Kent	North Sea, E. and SE. by the Strait of Dover, S. by the English Channel, SW. by Sussex, and W. by Surrey; greatest length, W. to E., 65 miles; greatest breadth, N. to S., 35 miles; 995,392 ac., pop. 977,706. The surface of the co. is hilly, being traversed E. and W. by the North Downs, a chalk range from 3 to 6 miles in breadth. On the N., along the shores of the Thames and Medway, there is a belt of marshland, which extends over a mile inland. The greater portion of the seaboard is washed	Bartholomew
  KENT	Kent	North Downs, extends parallel with the preceding, and of similar aggregate breadth, from Surrey to the neighbourhood of Waltham and Canterbury; goes thence, with rapidly increasing breadth, to the E coast; includes the parts of Thanet around Margate and Ramsgate; and forms the fine promontory of North Foreland, and the grand cliffs, " the white walls of Albion, '' around Dover. Two belts of the gault and lower greensand group, the one very narrow, the other somewhat wider, extend immediately S of the upper cretaceous tract. A region of the lower cretaceous formation, chiefly weald clay, but including some portions of Hastings	Imperial
  KENT (MID) RAILWAY	Kent	North Kent branch of the Southeastern at Lewisham, southward to the Farnborough extension of the West London and Crystal Palace, near Sydenham, a distance of 4½ miles, and was opened in Jan. 1857; and an extension of it, 3½ miles long, to Addiscombe, was authorized in 1862; and the whole was to be transferred, by purchase, to the Southeastern. The second portion was authorized in 1856, to be constructed from the preceding, near Bromley, eastward to St. Mary Cray	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	Cray, H ayes, Keston, North Cray, Orpington, St. Mary Cray, St. Paul Cray, and West Wickham; those in Essex are Barking	Imperial
  LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY	Kent London	North Kent fork of the Southeastern, with short branches to Faversham Quays and Chilham, and with a total length of 31½ miles; it was opened from Strood to Faversham in 1858, to Canterbury in 1860; and, with subsequent extensions, it had a total mileage of 88 in 1866. The company was authorized, in 1855, to construct an extension of 16¾ miles to Dover, with branches to Admiralty pier and Dover harbour; in 1858, to construct a line from Strood to St. Mary-Cray	Imperial
  Mearns	Renfrewshire	Mearns, a village and a parish of SE Renfrewshire. The village, called Newton-Mearns (a name as old at least	Groome
  Ruxley	Kent	Ruxley , former par., now in North Cray par., Kent.	Bartholomew
  SIDCUP	Kent	North Kent railway, 2¾ miles SE of Eltham; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a station on the railway, and a R. police station. The chapelry was constituted in 1844; and its Post town is Foots-Cray	Imperial
  Thames	Gloucestershire	North Sea. It receives as tributaries, on the left, the Windrush, Evenlode, Cherwell, Thame, Colne, Brent, Lea, and Roding; and on the right, the Kennet, Loddon, Wey, Mole, Wandle, Ravensbourne, Cray	Bartholomew

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