Jane Austen Gazetteer - Northanger Abbey

St. George's Fields

A Review of Allen's History of Lambeth, The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 95 (1825)

Liberty been a causeway Near Vauxhall turnpike are or were remains of entrenchments thrown up originally by the Romans and repaired in the civil wars for the security of London. This station was connected by a road &c with a camp in St George's Fields, a fort at the end of Kent street and another at the Grange near Bermondsey street, all visibly intended for the protection of Southwark and London Connect these with the walled city of London, and in the mind's eye we have a very interesting picture Villas and mausolea there certainly were for tesselated pavements and urns have been found in St George's Fields .

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Chapter 14 “You talked of expected horrors in London — and instead of instantly conceiving, as any rational creature would have done, that such words could relate only to a circulating library, she immediately pictured to herself a mob of three thousand men assembling in St. George’s Fields, the Bank attacked, the Tower threatened, the streets of London flowing with blood, a detachment of the Twelfth Light Dragoons (the hopes of the nation) called up from Northampton to quell the insurgents, and the gallant Captain Frederick Tilney, in the moment of charging at the head of his troop, knocked off his horse by a brickbat from an upper window."

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