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Cobbett's Hampshire
Transcription (73)1826, October
FROM BURGHCLERE TO LYNDHURST, IN THE NEW FOREST.
[October 1826]
Weyhill Fair
Appleshaw Fair
sheep fair
horse fair
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1826, October |
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Burghclere Weyhill Fair Appleshaw Fair sheep fair horse fair |
WHEN quarters are good, you are apt to lurk in them; but, really
it was so wet, that we could not get away from BURGHCLERE till
Monday evening. Being here, there were many reasons for our
going to the great fair at Weyhill, which began yesterday
[Tuesday 10 October], and, indeed, the day before, at APPLESHAW.
These two days are allotted for the selling of sheep only, though
the horse-fair begins on the 10th. To Appleshaw they bring
nothing but those fine curled-horned and long-tailed ewes, which
bring the house-lambs and the early Easter-lambs; and these,
which, to my taste, are the finest and most beautiful animals of
the sheep kind, come exclusively out of Dorsetshire and out the
part of Somersetshire bordering on that county. next |
 
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