Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

PITMEAD, a place in the S W of Wilts; on the river Wiley, near warminster. A Roman pavement, 116 feet by 10, was found here in 1786; and another, 19 feetsquare, together with baths and other Roman relics, wasfound in 1800.

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Travel writing

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