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Supplement to the antiquities of England and Wales (1777)

Grose, Francis · London: Printed for S. Hooper · leaf 204

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ftyfeet by forty-eight. This tower is carried up a very little height above the roof, notmore than twenty-fix feet, and has no proper finifhing, but is covered in as if the building ■had been left off; which very probably might be the cafe, for there is flrength enoughbelow to fupport a higher… … WOLVESLET CASTLE, HAMPSHIRE. WoLVESLEY Caftle was a palace belonging to the Blfhops of Winchefler, fitu-ated a fmall diftance fouth-eaft of the cathedral, on a pleafant fpot, watered by abranch of the river Itching, and by fome fuppofed to be that, where the SaxonKings held their refidence. Its…

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