A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
FLEETPOND, a locality on the NE border of Hants; on the Southwestern railway, 3½ miles WSW of Farnborough. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Winchfield. A lake which gives name to it is one of the largest of the lakelets among the heaths of Hants and Surrey; and is traversed by the railway on a high bank of sand. The engineer, at the forming of the railway, found difficulty in projecting this bank; but he contrived first to face the slopes with sods, then to lay on a thatch of hazel rods, and then to pin down the thatch with willows, which soon took root, and matted the turf on the sand.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a locality" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Hampshire AncC |
| Place: | Fleet Pond |
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