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| | About Mexborough,South Yorkshire |
 | | Mexborough, the Maise-belly of Matthew of Westmoreland, is a good village, built chiefly of stone, and seated on the north side of the Don, 6 miles north-east of Rotherham. |
 | | It is noted for its potteries, its ex cellent quarries of building and grinding stones, and for the vestiges of several Roman aggers, supposed to have been raised to strengthen the neighbouring fortification at Templeborough. |
 | | The Earl of Mexborough owns 100 acres, but Capt. Cator is the principal proprietor of the Lordship. |
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