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ATHERSTONE. a market-town in the Nuncaton parliamentary division of Warwickshire, England, io2§ m. N.W. from London by the London & North-Western railway. Pop. (1001) 5248. It lies in the upper valley of the Anker, under well-wooded hills to the west, and is o ...

ATHERTON, or CHOWBENT, an urban district in the Leigh parliamentary division of Lancashire, England, 13 m. W.N.W. of Manchester on the London & North- Western and Lancashire & Yorkshire railways. Pop. (1901) 16,211. The cotton factories are the principal sourc

ATESTE (mod. Este,q.v.), an ancient town of Venetia, at the southern foot of the Euganean hills, 43 ft. above sea-level; 22m. S.W. of Patavium (Padua). The site was occupied in very early times, as the discoveries since 1882 show. Large cemeteries have been ex

TURNSTONE, the name long given l to a shore-bird, from its habit of turning over with its bill such stones as it can to seek its food in the small crustaceans or other animals lurking beneath them. It is the Tringa interpret* of Linnaeus and Strepsilas inlerpr