Cobbett's Hampshire, 1830

	Old Hampshire Mapped

	Cobbett's Hampshire Transcription (2)
Weyhill Fair sheep fair horse fair tax eaters	previous WENT to Weyhill-fair, at which I was about 46 years ago, when I rode a little poney, and remember how proud I was on the occasion; ... The 11th of October is the Sheep-fair. About 300,000l. used, some few years ago, to be carried home by the sheep-sellers. To-day, less, perhaps, than 70,00l. and yet, the rents of these sheep-sellers are, perhaps, as high, on an average, as they were then. The countenances of the farmers were descriptive of their ruinous state. I never, in all my life, beheld a more mournful scene. There is a horse-fair upon another part of the Down; and there I saw horses keeping pace in depression with the sheep. A pretty numerous group of the tax-eaters from Andover and the neighbourhood were the only persons that had smiles on their faces. ...
geology chalk flint	From this dismal scene, a scene formerly so joyous, we set off back to Uphusband pretty early, were overtaken by the rain, and got a pretty good soaking. The land along here is very good. This whole country has a chalk bottom; but, in the valley on the right of the hill over which you go from Andover to Weyhill, the chalk lies far from the top, and the soil has few flints in it. ...
hop fair Weyhill Fair	... My sons went two of the days [to Weyhill Fair], and their account of the hop-fair was enough to make one gloomy for a month ...
Burghclere hare coursing	AT Burghclere [October], one half of the time writing, and the other half hare-hunting. ... next

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