Southsea, a south-eastern suburb of Portsmouth, is a fashionable watering-place of recent growth, with two piers, a fine esplanade 2 miles long, a canoe lake, a common, a modernised castle of 1540, and other fortifications, barracks, &c.
Southsea
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 593
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