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| | Southampton |
 | | SOUTHAMPTON, a town within Hampshire, though forming a county of itself, situated on a point of land between the river Alre, or Itchen, on the east, and the Test, Teese or Anton on the west. |
 | | The present road from Winchester to Southampton, as far as the village of Otterbourn, coincides with the line of the Roman road from Venta Belgarum (Winchester) to Clausentum ; at 0tterbourn the Southampton road diverges a little to the right, while the Roman road may be traced along the hills running straight onward towards Bittern. |
 | | Southampton was anciently a place of great trade ; wool and tin were exported ; but it declined very much when the export of wool was prohibited, and at the beginning of the eighteenth century was reduced to a very low ebb. |
| www.oldtowns.co.uk /Hampshire/southampton.htm (1813 words) |
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