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SELBORNE

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 599 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SELBORNE  , a

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village in the
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Petersfield
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parliamentary division of Hampshire, England, 41- m . S.S.E. of
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Alton station on the
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London & South-Western railway . It is pleasantly situated in a thickly wooded valley, and is celebrated as the birthplace and scene of the
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work of Gilbert White the naturalist; his house is in the village, and his memorial and
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grave are in the ancient church .
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Fine views over the
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district of which he wrote are obtained from the hills (between 500 and 700 ft.) in the neighbour-hood .

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