Identifier: illustrateddescr00lond (find matches)
Title: An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Railroads -- Great Britain Europe -- Guidebooks England -- Guidebooks
Publisher: (London) : Morton & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n^- SOUTHAMPTON. As long ago as when Winchester was the residence of the sovereigns ofEngland, and virtually its capital, Southampton—then called Hamptune—was a prosperous seaport. Southampton Water, some three miles wide, andin the centre about forty feet in depth, sheltered with wooded hills, and withthe great natural breakwater of the Isle of Wight, offered a safe and invitinganchorage for any number of vessels of any burthen. In the reign ofHenry II. it was made by royal charter an incorporated town ; and, longbefore, it had been walled, and defended by moats filled from the sea. Inthe middle ages it was the most convenient place of embarkation for sove-reigns and troops on their way to France, and its shores witnessed thedeparture of the men who won the fields of Cressy, Poictiers, and Agincourt.The Protestants driven from the Netherlands, in the middle of the seven-teenth century, settled in Southampton, brought with them the manufactureof several kinds of cloth not before k

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