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Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.Mogg, Edward S.

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Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.

Name: Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First.: Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc.
Author: Mogg, Edward S.

Mogg, Edward S.

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|side, and near the sea, commanding a beautiful prospect.
     |
     |The church, with its tower, cupola, and lantern, may pass as a
     |stately edifice, but the style of its architecture is not
     |remarkable for any beauty.
     |
     |Portsmouth sends two members to parliament, it has a port admiral,
     |and all the various officers of the revenue. On South-sea Beach
     |are several commodious bathing machines. The mouth of the harbour
     |is not so broad as the Thames at Westminster, and is defended on
     |the Gosport side by four forts and a strong platform of cannon.
     |The markets are on Thursday and Saturday, as well as a small one
     |on Tuesday; and a fair which continues fourteen days.
     |
   70|Portsmouth Common, Hants, 32.
     |
  257|Pothall, Cornwall, 128.
     |
   14|Potter’s Lane, Surrey, 47.
     |
   90|Poulner, Hants, 88.
     |
  210|Poulston, Devon, 152.
     |
  121|Poundbury, Dorset, 109. Poundbury Camp is an irregular
     |parallelogram in shape, surrounded by a vallum, which is very
     |lofty, but appears to have been discontinued on the north side, or
     |perhaps has been worn away: on the east side, on which was the
     |principal entrance, it appears to have been double. Another
     |entrance next the river was made with the greatest art, a narrow
     |path being drawn all along between the edge of the precipice and
     |the vallum; and beyond the camp, west, for a long way, a small
     |trench is cut upon the said edge, which seems designed to prevent
     |the ascent of cavalry. The breadth of the area is 147 paces, and
     |its length 378: towards the middle the ground is considerably
     |elevated, and near the south side is a barrow, which is imagined
     |to be Celtic, and extant before the camp was made.
     |
  103|Pound Close, Dorset, 107.
     |
  229|Pounds Cause, Cornwall, 154.
     |
   27|Povey Cross, Surrey, 48.
     |
   17|Pratt’s Bottom, Kent, 17.
     |
   75|Preshute, Wilts, 183. A parish containing 100 houses, and 496
     |inhabitants.
     |
  122|Preston, Somerset, 141. A parish containing 46 houses, and 260
     |inhabitants.
     |
   52|Preston, Sussex, 51. A parish containing 31 houses, and 222
     |inhabitants.
     |
     |Prinsted, Sussex, 215.
     |
  263|Probus, Cornwall, 128. A parish containing 194 houses, and 1013
     |inhabitants.
     |
  118|Puddimore, Somerset, 166. A parish containing 26 houses, and 154
     |inhabitants.
     |
  128|Puddle Town, Somerset, 142.
     |
   45|Puntfield, Berks, 178.
     |
   65|Purbrook, Hants, 32.
     |
    8|Putney Heath, Surrey, 24. On this heath stands an obelisk, erected
     |to commemorate an invention for securing buildings against fire.
     |
     |
     |Q.
     |
     |Quag-end, Hants, 213.
     |
   70|Quarley, Hants, 159. A parish containing 34 houses, and 134
     |inhabitants.
     |
   71|Quarley Hill, Hants, 160. On this hill are considerable traces of
     |a Roman encampment.

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