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Title: A topographical survey of the great road from London to Bath and Bristol. : With historical and descriptive accounts of the country, towns, villages, and gentlemen's seats on and adjacent to it...
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Robertson, Archibald
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Publisher: London: : Printed for the author... and William Faden...
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work, and mentions also a camp at Ry-bury, on St. Anns Hill, which lies north-east of that town, and a small Roman campabove Alton. Edingdon, or Hedington, appears to havebeen a Roman station, by foundations of 84 SURVEY OF THE GREAT ROAD FROM houses dug up for a mile together, andmany silver and copper imperial coins foundthere: some of which are in the Ashmoleanmuseum, and others in that of the RoyalSociety. DEVIZES. This is an ancient town, eighty-ninemiles distant from London, and twenty-four from Salisbury; respecting the nameand origin of which there have been va-rious opinions. It is called by Mathew of WestminsterVisa, by Leland the Vies, and supposed tohave taken its name from the division of itbetween the King and the Bishop of Salis-bury ; or, as Dr. Stukeley fancies, from thelast syllable of the Roman name Punc-tuobice. Whether it was built by Dunwallo, orpossessed by the Romans before his time,is uncertain: the camp on the edge ofRoundaway Hill before described, the great
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LONDON TO BATH AND BRISTOL. 85 number of coins, and other Roman anti-quities, found in this neighbourhood, fa-vour the latter supposition. Here stood a strong castle, no remains ofwhich are now to be seen.—Dr. Walker, inhis notes on Spelmans Life of Alfred, on theauthority of tradition, ascribes the castle ofDevizes to him; but the earliest accountwe have of it from history is, that it wasthe work of Roger, Bishop of Sarum. It was said to be the most splendid castlein Europe; and Robert Fitz-Hubert, whopossessed himself of it in the war betweenStephen and Maud, boasted that by itsmeans he could be master of all the countrybetween London and Winchester: but hewas soon surprised and executed ; the go-vernment of it was given successively tosome of the first nobility; and here Hubertde Burgh was confined in the reign ofHenry III. Leland gives the following account ofthis castle: That it stood on the south-west side of 86 SURVEY OF THE GREAT ROAD FROM the town, stately advanced on a hig

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