Cintra [Sintra]

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’.

Christ Church

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.

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.

Ambleside

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