Town in Portugal. Southey’s uncle, Herbert Hill, kept a summer home there. Southey visited the house in June–October 1800, calling it ‘a spot the most delightful I have ever yet known’.

Town, just along the coast from Burton, Hampshire. Southey stayed there briefly in June 1797 and again in October 1799, while supervising renovations to the house he was renting at Burton.

Village in Hampshire, where Southey stayed in June–September 1797. He returned in October–November 1799 and rented a
house found for him by his friend Charles Biddlecombe.

An inn in St Martin le Grand, near Smithfield, London, from which coaches and wagons left for Cumbria.

Caroline Bowles’s home at Buckland Cottage, near Lymington, Hampshire. Southey first visited her there in 1824.

The country home of the Bedford family, Southey spent several weeks there in September–October 1793, during which time he wrote the first draft of Joan of Arc.

Southey was a student at Balliol College, Oxford in 1792-1794, though he left without taking a degree.

Walter Scott’s home from 1804–1812, it was located near Galashiels in Selkirkshire.

Village in the Lake district, Mary Barker lodged near there in 1806. Hartley and Derwent Coleridge attended the school run by John Dawes there.

Walter Scott’s house near Melrose in the Scottish borders, from 1812 until his death in 1832.