CHRISTCHURCH, (Hampshire) 80 cm. 100 mm. from London, is a large populous Bor. at the conflux of the Avon and Stour, and
was therefore anciently called Twinambourne. Here was a castle built, in the R. of Hen. I. of which, in the R. of Edw. IV.
Thomas de West, ancestor of the Ld. Delawar, was governor. There was also a collegiate Ch. here, first built in the time
of the Saxons, then called Trinity, and afterwards Christ-Church. This Bor. is governed by a mayor, ald. recorder,
bailiffs, and C. C. and here are officers employed to prevent smuggling. 'Tis said to have had its first grants and
privileges, in the R. of K. Stephen, from Richard de Ridvers, the first Earl of Devon, whose portraiture is the T. seal.
Its chief mf. is silk stockings and gloves. The r. Avon, which falls here into the sea, was made navigable to it from
Salisbury, about anno 1680. Its Mt. is on M. and its Fairs Th. fennight after Whitsunday, and Oct, 6.