Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Bevois

Bevois, vil., 2 miles N. of Southampton, S. Hants, on river Itchin; P.O., designated Bevois Hill. The hamlet of Bevois Mount, 1 mile distant, was a resort of Pope and Swift, and the residence of Sotheby, the poet; P.O.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hampshire AncC
Place: Bevois

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