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Catalogue reference: MPI 1/198

Map of the Port of Portsmouth with smugglers´ landing places and the Force Revenue stations
1816. TNA: MPI 1/198 (extract from ADM 7/226)

When the long Napoleonic Wars and the naval blockade of Continental and West Indies´ goods ended, smuggling across the Channel resumed.  As this official sketch of the Portsmouth coastline shows, many "Landing Places" favoured by smugglers were known, several within the harbour itself. 

Cat ref: MPI 1/198
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