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Encyclopedia Britannica



SPITALFIELDS

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 708 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
SPITALFIELDS , a
district
  of London, England, in the western part of the metropolitan borough of Stepney. The name is derived from the fact that the land belonged to a priory of St Mary Spital, founded in 1197. Excavations have revealed a Roman burial-place here. The name is well known in connexion with the silk industry established here by French refugees after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685.mainland (the
coast
  of
Hampshire
 , England) and the north-eastern
coast
  of the Isle of Wight, forming the eastern entrance to Southampton Water, the Solent being the western. Its length is about 12 m., and its general breadth about 4 m., though the distance between Ryde and Gilkicker Point is almost exactly 3 M. The Spit Sand, extending
south
 -
east
  from this promontory, gives name to the strait. On the north side opens the narrow entry to Portsmouth Harbour, with the towns of Portsmouth and
Gosport
 
east
  and west of it. On the
south
  the coast of Wight rises sharply though to no
great
 
elevation
 ; it is well wooded, and studded with country residences. Here is also the favourite watering-place of Ryde. Spithead, which as an anchorage is exposed only to the south-east, shares in the fortifications of Portsmouth Harbour, the principal station of the British navy. In this connexion the strait has been the scene of many splendid naval pageants, such as those attendant upon the
jubilee
  in 1897, and the funeral in 1901 of Queen Victoria, and that which celebrated the coronation of King
Edward
  VII. on the 16th of August 1902.


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