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Research Notes
Map Group DEFOE 1724
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Defoe 1724
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Extracts for Hampshire from Defoe's Tour Through The Whole Island of Great Britain, 1724
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DANIEL DEFOE |
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DEFOE'S HAMPSHIRE |
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REFERENCES |
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| DANIEL DEFOE |
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Daniel Foe was the son of James Foe, a tallow chandler or
butcher, Cripplegate, London, born about 1661. He used the name
Defoe from about 1695. He was a Puritan and, by turns, a hosiery
merchant, a soldier in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, a secret
agent for William III in England and Scotland, producer of the
'Review' - a pro government newspaper, and a writer. He wrote on
geography, politics, religion, economics, etc, etc. Fiction was
the product of his later years; 'Robinson Crusoe', 'Moll
Flanders', 'Journal of the Plague Year', etc. The 'Tour ...' was
published in three volumes 1724-26 as a guide book. Daniel Defoe
died at his lodgings in Ropemakers Alley, Moorfields, London,
buried in what is now Bunhill Fields, 1731.
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The 'Tour ...' is an imaginative work; keenly reporting places
and events, theorising on political issues ... but also making
factual errors, even guessing, and perhaps exaggerating for a good
tale. He was a liberal, humane and moral writer. The book is an
eloquent description of Great Britain in the early eighteenth
century; a time before industrialisation, a period when
communications were poor but improving.
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HAMPSHIRE |
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Defoe's routes in Hampshire, whether or no he made the
journeys, are approximately:-
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letter 2
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CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE SEA-COASTS OF KENT, SUSSEX,
HAMPSHIRE, AND OF PART OF SURREY.
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Enter Hampshire from Stanstead, West Sussex, to Portsmouth,
westwards via ferries at Gosport, Titchfield, Bursledon, and the
Itchen Ferry, etc to Southampton, (mentions of estates at Hursley
and Southwick) then NE, missing Winchester, to Petersfield, then
Alton, and eastwards to Farnham etc.
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Enter Hampshire from Farnham, Surrey, over Bagshot Heath, on
to the London-Salisbury-Exeter road ...
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letter 3
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CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE SOUTH COASTS OF HAMPSHIRE, WILTS,
DORSETSHIRE, SOMERSETSHIRE, DEVONSHIRE, AND CORNWALL
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Enter Hampshire from Chertsey, via Bagshot? Surrey over
Bagshot Heath, to Blackwater, then Hartley Row, pass Basing
House, to Basingstoke, then to New Alresford, and Winchester,
(mentions St Cross) then probably via Stockbridge and out of the
county to Salisbury, Wiltshire; from Salisbury, across the New
Forest via Romsey, by Lyndhurst (mention the site of the
Palatinate refugee's new town plan), to Lymington, and westwards
(mentioning Christchurch etc).
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letter 4
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CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE NORTH SHORE OF THE COUNTIES OF
CORNWALL, AND DEVON, AND SOME PARTS OF SOMERSETSHIRE, WILTSHIRE,
DORSETSHIRE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND BERKSHIRE
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(Mentions Andover and Weyhill Fair)
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| The transcription of the Hampshire entries, with indexing, can be found in
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Old Hampshire Mapped
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| also Defoe's observations on the introduction of turnpikes in the country.
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| REFERENCES |
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Extracts for Hampshire from the Tour through the Whole Island
of Great Britain, by Daniel Defoe, published in parts 1724-26. The
extracts are taken from:-
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Defoe, Daniel & Rhys, Ernest (ed):
1724 & 1930 (about): Tour Through England and Wales & Everyman's
Library (1930s edn): Dent, J M and Sons: vol.1: typeset from the
verbatim reprint 1927, of the 1st edition
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A more accessible edition, in print [2001], with a useful
introduction, but unfortunately abridged, is:-
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Defoe, Daniel & Rogers, Pat (ed):
1724 & 1986: Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain:
Penguin Books: : ISBN 0 14 043066 0
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