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… prompting Surrey’s Grand Jury to remind the county in 1736 that public houses were intended for ‘the receipt […] of Travellers […] [rather than] the Entertainment & harbouring of […] Idle People to spend & consume their Money & their … attractions in their own right. On her journeys through England, Celia Fiennes – doubly notable as an early leisure traveller and a female voice – liked to frequent local sights like sites of worship. At Derby in 1698, for example, she … edition. Celia Fiennes, ‘1698 Tour: Staffordshire’, A vision of Britain, 2009-2017. https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/travellers/Fiennes/21 A Swiss village church near Bern established itself as an unlikely tourist destination. An …
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