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Richard Spurrett descended from two generations of itinerant travellers, and in his younger years covered a lot of ground across the Lambourne downs and through to London.  He was born in Woodstock in Oxfordshire.  His mother died in childbirth in 1790 in Putney, when he was just nine years old.  He married and had a… Continue reading Understanding 19th Century Surveyors in Bampton