Tuesday, February 18, 2025

A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain Daniel Defoe 1724-7

 

Rook Lane chapel built in 1707. Cloased as a chapel in 68 - I went there once as a child

This famous work is roughly 300 years old. Wiki. Below is what he said about Frome. Online edition

"So prodigiously increased within these last 20-30 years, that they have built a new church, and so many new streets of houses, and those houses are so full of inhabitants, that Frome is now reckoned to have more people in it than the city of Bath, and some say, than even Salisbury itself, and if their trade continues to increase for a few years more ... it is likely to be one of the greatest and wealthiest towns in England".