Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Shobley like this:

SHOBLEY, an extra-parochial tract in Ringwood district, Hants; forming part of Broomy walk in the New Forest.

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Travel writing

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