Number 389 Of Four-Hundred Copies printed. FROST FAIR ON THE RIVER THAMES, IN 1814. FAMOUS FROSTS AND FROST FAIRS IN GREAT BRITAIN. Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time. BY WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S. , Author of “Historic Romance,” “Modern Yorkshire Poets,” etc. LONDON: GEORGE REDWAY, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1887....

The aim of this book is to furnish a reliable account of remarkable frosts occurring in this country from the earliest period in our Annals to the present time. In many instances, I have given particulars as presented by contemporary writers of the scenes and circumstances described. In the compilation of this Chronology, several hundred books, magazines, and newspapers, have been consulted, and a complete list would fill several pages. I must not, however, omit to state that I have derived much

  Thames frozen over for two months. Very severe frost, lasting nearly three months. English rivers frozen, including the Thames. A frost lasted three months, and was followed by a dearth. A continuous frost of five months in Britain. Thames frozen for nine weeks. Severe frost lasted six weeks. English rivers frozen. The frost very severe in England and Scotland. It lasted fourteen weeks in the latter country. Four months’ frost, and great snow. Frost lasted two months: rivers frozen. Thames fro