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Rotherhithe
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synonyms: Redriff ???
tags: [geography]
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Definition:a residential district in London, just west of the Isle of Dogs. The area was formerly called Redriff.
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On the fifth of December, 1715, we cast anchor in the Downs, about nine in the morning, and at three in the afternoon I got safe to my house at Rotherhith.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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