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Car Leasing Deals Southampton
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Southampton Leasing
Did You Know?Southampton is a port city on England’s south coast. It’s home to the Sea City Museum, with an model of the Titanic, which departed from Southampton in 1912. Nearby, the City Art Gallery specialises in modern British art. . From the middle of the 1800's, Southampton has been famous for being a liner port. In 1912, the world's most famous liner, The Titanic, embarked from here on its fateful maiden voyage, carrying seven hundred residents in her crew, over five hundred of whom would never return. Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated 75 miles south-west of London and 19 miles north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton name is sometimes abbreviated in writing to "So'ton" or "Soton", and a resident are called a Sotonian. The Mayflower, the famed ship which brought the Pilgrim Fathers to America, actually set sail from Southampton. There were in fact two ships - The Mayflower and The Speedwell, which left together in early August, 1620. God's House Tower, on the corner of Town Quay, Lower Canal Walk and Platform Road, was the first dedicated artillery fortification built in England. It was constructed in 1417, as part of the drive to fortify Southampton following the French raids some 80 years earlier Southampton is famed as the home of writers such as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, as well as the birthplace of engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Hampshire is notable for housing the birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force.
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