Ashby-de-la-Zouch

a small market town in 17 miles W. of Leicester on the Railway. The name is derived from the family of La Zouch. The scene of some of most important incidents in Ivanhoe is laid and the ruins of Ashby Castle, where Mary of Scots was immured, stand south of the The church of St. Helen is a fine structure contains interesting monuments. The principal 241 runnufacture works, Pop. 91 uf Dagon A yrians centuty, rebuilt Central river enjoying dry, in small lated Bible, sion. Asherah tree-like was cbject other He godde tree-worship that viewed stand from a lines has company a School. the dlesex, Staines, laid (sometimes contrast is polished, the 18th Haydn’s antiquary at which to his Ashdod. ( 219 is leather, but there are iron-smelting and factories for nail-making and hosiery. (1901), 4,722. Ashdod (in N. T. Azetus), on the Mediterranean, miles 8. of Jaffa, once a strongly fortified city the Philistines, and the seat of the worship of (Cp. 1 Sam. iii.). It was taken by the 715 B.c., by the Egyptians in the next and destroyed by the Maccabees. It was by the Romans, but is now a poor village.