John May’s London address from 1817, when it was left to him in his aunt’s will.

Estate in Penkridge, Staffordshire, owned by Sir Edward Littleton. It was the home of Mary Barker, his companion. After Littleton’s death in 1812, Barker moved to Keswick, where she lived until 1817.

The home of Southey’s friend Mrs Elizabeth Dolignon and her sisters the Misses Delamere. Southey spent much time there when he was at Westminster school and stayed at Theobalds after his expulsion from Westminster in April 1792.

Lake to the east of Keswick, on the shores of which Thomas Clarkson and his wife lived until 1806.

A farm rented by Tom Southey and his family from early 1816 until their move to Emerald Bank on 25 March 1819.

Village just outside Bristol. Southey rented a cottage, which he named Martin-Hall, in Westbury between June 1798 and June 1799.

The boarding house run by Margaret Southey from 1793 to 1798.

The home of the Wynn family.

Town on the Norfolk coast; Southey visited his brother Henry Herbert Southey, who was studying with George Burnett, there in late May 1798.

Herefordshire village. Southey’s uncle Herbert Hill had been presented to the living there in 1790 by John Hampden-Trevor (1748–1824). Hill was an absentee Vicar and only took up residence in the parish in 1807 on his return from Portugal after the French invasion. He resigned in 1810 when appointed to the living at Streatham.