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Alfoxton Park, Somerset
Alfoxton Park
county:-   Somerset
locality type:-   park
locality type:-   buildings
1Km square:-   ST1541
10Km square:-   ST14
evidence:-   old photograph:- Bell 1880s-1940s
source data:-   Photograph, b/w, Alfoxton, Somerset, ?by Herbert Bell, Ambleside, Westmorland, 1890s?
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HB0301.jpg
item:-  Armitt Library : ALPS660
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hearsay:-  
 Local people were suspicious of the strangers from the North. Their north country speech and weathered complexions, and their long walks by day or night perhaps with notebooks and telescope, led to them being investigated as spies for the revolutionary French.
person:-   poet
 : Wordsworth, William
person:-   author
 : Wordsworth, Dorothy
place:-   home
date:-   1797
 to 1798
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