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A new unused book.

About the book >.>.> The suburban expansion that took in St Michael’s Hill and eventually all of what is now the University Precinct had begun by the sixteenth century. This early expansion and the landscape disturbed by the building of the Royal Fort in the English Civil War are not recorded on any surviving maps. The continued suburban expansion is most easily followed through the maps of 1673 and later. Millerd’s map of 1673 (Fig.2) shows a scatter of gardens and houses the Little Park houses on St Michael’s Hill and the houses contained within the Royal Fort ‘now demolished’ and ‘converted into houses and pleasant gardens’. The legend amplifies this theme: ‘the riseing of the hill St Michael being converted into comely buildings & pleasant gardens makes a very beautifull addition to the suburbs thereof. (LL)