Old Hampshire Mapped

Cobbett's Hampshire

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turnpike road
Old Winchester Hill
Stoke Down
West End Down
hills
downs
West End
Hambledon 		previous

At Exton I crossed the Gosport turnpike-road came up the cross valley under the South side of Old Winchester Hill, over Stoke down, then over West-end down, and then to my friend's house at West End in the parish of Hambledon.

turnpike road
navigation 		Thus have I crossed nearly the whole of this country from the North-West to the South-East, without going five hundred yards on a turnpike-road, and, as nearly as I could do it, in a straight line.

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