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| | SWANWICK AND BURSLEDON |
 | | Daniel Defoe, of Robinson Crusoe fame,worked in the Bursledon shipyards, surely the inspiration behind his many tales of seafaring folk. |
 | | Bursledon had other important industries in the past, Salt was extracted from the tidal mudflats. |
 | | Corn was ground in the windmill to the west, until the 1880's, and the brickworks, to the east of the village, provided, amongst many other projects, the bricks which line the Suez Canal. |
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