The Letters of Robert Bloomfield and His CircleA Romantic Circles Electronic EditionRobert Bloomfield (1766–1823)Tim FulfordRomantic CirclesGeneral Editor, Neil FraistatGeneral Editor, Steven E. JonesGeneral Editor, Carl StahmerTechnical EditorLaura MandellplacesRomantic Circles, http://www.rc.umd.edu, University of MarylandCollege Park, MDApril 1, 2009

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Index of PlacesBarnett, near Clare Hall, South Mimms, HertfordshireBarton, SuffolkBell-Alley, Coleman Street, in the City of LondonBury St. Edmunds, SuffolkCampton, BedfordshireCarlton House, Piccadilly, LondonChicksands, BedfordshireClare Hall, South Mimms, HertfordshireDryburgh Abbey, near Melrose, ScotlandEuston Hall, Suffolk, near ThetfordFakenham, SuffolkFerney Hill, GloucestershireFulham, near LondonGraveley, CambridgeshireHadleigh, SuffolkHampstead, LondonHonington GreenHonington, SuffolkIxworth Thorpe, SuffolkMulberry Court, Coleman Street, City of LondonOld Jewry, City of LondonPoultry, City of LondonPutneyRagland CastleRidlesworth Hall, NorfolkRotherhithe, LondonSapiston, SuffolkSeal Office, Somerset House, LondonShefford, BedfordshireShepherd & Shepherdess, City Road, East LondonSouthill, BedfordshireStanford, SuffolkStanford Bury, BedfordshireStout's Hill, GloucestershireTowcester, NorthamptonshireTroston, SuffolkUley, GloucestershireVauxhallWakefield Lodge, NorthhamptonshireWhittlebury, NorthamptonshireWicken Park, NorthamptonshireWoolwich, Kent
PlacesBarnett, near Clare Hall, South Mimms, Hertfordshire:home of the family of James Sharp.Barton, Suffolk: neighbouring village to Honington.Bell-Alley, Coleman Street, in the City of London: site of Bloomfield's lodgings before summer 1799.Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: home of George Bloomfield.Campton, Bedfordshire:village neighbouring Bloomfield's home-village of Shefford, Bedfordshire.Carlton House, Piccadilly, London: home of the Prince of Wales.Chicksands, Bedfordshire: village near Shefford.Clare Hall, South Mimms, Hertfordshire: seat of James Sharp, his wife and daughter.Dryburgh Abbey, near Melrose, Scotland: country seat of Lord Buchan.Euston Hall, Suffolk, near Thetford: country seat of the Duke of Grafton.Fakenham, Suffolk: village nearby Honington and Euston.Ferney Hill, Gloucestershire: home of the Coopers, R. Bransby and daughter Charlotte, who accompanied Bloomfield and the Lloyd Bakers on the Wye tour.Fulham, near London: home of William, Catherine and latterly Granville Sharp.Graveley, Cambridgeshire: village near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.Hadleigh, Suffolk: town in which Nathan Drake lived.Hampstead, London: home of Thomas Park.Honington Green:the village green in Honington, close to which stood the house in which Bloomfield was born.Honington, Suffolk: Bloomfield's birthplace and boyhood home; home of his mother and some of his siblings.Ixworth Thorpe, Suffolk: small village near Honington.Mulberry Court, Coleman Street, City of London: site of Bloomfield's lodgings from summer 1799.Old Jewry, City of London: site of the famous dissenting meeting house at which Unitarian radicals, including Joseph Fawcett and Richard Price, preached.Poultry, City of London: street in which Vernor and Hood had their bookselling establishment.Putney: Surrey location of one of Dr Andrew Bell's Central Madras schools, at which Bloomfield's son Charles was briefly employed as a master.Ragland Castle: Raglan Castle, near Abergavenny, Wales.Ridlesworth Hall, Norfolk: near Thetford, home of the Bevan family.Rotherhithe, London: area of South London on the banks of the Thames; residence of Bloomfield's wife's aunt and cousins.Sapiston, Suffolk:village near Honington, where the boy Bloomfield lived and worked for his uncle William Austin.Seal Office, the Temple, London: Bloomfield's place of work while employed in the position found him by the Duke of Grafton as under-sealer of documents.Shefford, Bedfordshire: village to which Bloomfield moved in 1812.Shepherd & Shepherdess, City Road, East London: near this inn lay Bloomfield's home until he moved to Shefford, Bedfordshire.Southill, Bedfordshire: location, near Shefford, of the country estate of Bloomfield's Bedfordshire neighbour Samuel Whitbread.Stanford, Suffolk: village near Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds.Stanford Bury, Bedfordshire:A place close to Shefford; site of a Roman encampment, and the source of some of Thomas Inskip's archaeological finds.Stout's Hill, Gloucestershire: seat of the Lloyd Bakers at Uley.Towcester, Northamptonshire:town near which was the estate owned by William Grant.Troston, Suffolk: seat of Capel Lofft, near Honington.Uley, Gloucestershire: village in which the Lloyd Bakers lived, near Gloucester.Vauxhall: Vauxhall Gardens, famous pleasure gardens on the south side of the Thames in London.Wakefield Lodge, Northhamptonshire: the Duke of Grafton's house in Northamptonshire.Whittlebury, Northamptonshire: The Duke of Grafton had a residence here, and Bloomfield visited the area in 1800 and 1804. He published 'Lines, occasioned by a Visit to Whittlebury Forest' in Rural Tales. It is illustrated in Brayley.Wicken Park, Northamptonshire: home of Elizabeth Prowse, Granville and William Sharp's sister and Mary Lloyd Baker's aunt.Woolwich, Kent: site of Thames dockyard, near London, in which Bloomfield's father-in-law worked.