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World: Europe: Britain: England: Winchester

Historic city in Hampshire, pop. 20,929 [1901]. [JT]


COPP: Jephro Rucastle's house, The Copper Beeches, was located in Hampshire, "five miles on the far side of Winchester."
Holmes and Watson met Violet Hunter at the Black Swan Inn, "an inn of repute in teh High Street, at no distance from the station." [Baedeker's Guide to Britain (1897 edition) also recommends the Black Swan.]


SILV: The Wessex Cup race was held here.


THOR: The murder trial was sent to the Assizes at Winchester. Grace Dunbar was also jailed here.


Winchester 
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