Sherlock Holmes · Location
Southampton High Road
- road
Curving country high road with railings passing close to isolated houses amid fields.
- Type
- road
- First appears
- Book 2 · Ch. 13
- Books
- 1
Southampton High Road first appears in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as a curving country thoroughfare lined with railings that passes close to isolated houses amid fields. Across the series, this rural artery evolves from a simple descriptive backdrop into a recurring narrative device that frames Holmes’s investigations in the English countryside, symbolizing both the isolation of the cases and the encroachment of London’s reach into rural England.
History
BOOK 2The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Curving country high road with railings passing close to isolated houses amid fields.
Appearances
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