Britton, John, topographer and antiquary, born in Wiltshire in humble position; author of “Beauties of Wiltshire,” instalment of a work embracing all the counties of England and Wales; his principal works, and works of value, are “Antiquities of Great Britain” and “Cathedral Antiquities of England”; his chief work is 14 volumes; the “Antiquities in Normandy” did much to create an interest in antiquarian subjects (1771‒1857).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brittany * Brixton