REal places in...Emma

​Emma's world is a small one and most of the novel takes place in the fictional village of Highbury in Surrey. Austen describes Highbury as a "large and populous village, almost amounting to a town" and tells us that the village is 16 miles from London, nine miles from Richmond and seven miles from Box Hill. Highbury is most likely an amalgamation of several places, but Austen may have used Letterhead as the template.  
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