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Hampshire

Hampshire
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About Hampshire

Hampshire is a ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, Dorset to the west, and Wiltshire to the north-west. Southampton is the largest settlement.

On the show โ€” 10 mentions total

The secret house that she bought was in Alton in Hampshire, which is where Jane Austen lived for the last years of her life.

from No Such Thing As A Tuna Macchiato, 2025-05-15 at 00:22:43 ยท read transcript

Other times Hampshire came up

  1. It's just higher up, isn't it? When you read the article of Conan Doyle's original, he's really throwing us north and there's a bit of a bone. He's basically saying how great the south is. So this person who was Donan Coyle wrote about Hampshire. He said, because Hampshire's so far south, he said, the soot in Hampshire is smuttier than any other soot. The grass of Hampshire is greener than jealousy itself.

    422: No Such Thing as The Long Kiss Good Brie, 2022-04-15 ยท listen

  2. When you read the article Conan Dono's original, he's really throwing us north and there's a bit of a bone. He's basically saying how great the South is. So this person who is Don and Kyle wrote about Hampshire. He said, because Hampshire's so far south, he said the Sut in Hampshire is smuttier than any other South. The grass of Hampshire is greener than jealousy itself.

    No Such Thing as The Long Kiss Good Brie, 2022-04-15 ยท listen

  3. You want someone to clarify? I was like, yes, but he is dead. There was one really snooty one in Hampshire, in the Hampshire parish record, actually, that someone found online, and it was recording the existence of the baptized bastard child of Mary Brown, gotten of John Smith, brackets, so she sayest, closed brackets. Because it was often vickers who recorded it and they were very judgmental. The very reverend Dr. Peter Scrimshaw, Wood, got to go around doing all of his parish's responses and so he found an unmarried mother and he just described her occupation as man-trap.

    No Such Thing As A Lost Shadow, 2019-08-23 ยท listen

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