A new suburb

"Since the increase of Business at this Place, by the long continuance of the War, the Confluence of People has been so great, and the Town not admitting any enlargement for Buildings, that a kind of Suburb, or rather a New Town has been built on the healthy Ground adjoining to the Town, which is so well built, and seems to increase so fast, that in time it threatens to outdo for Numbers of Inhabitants, and beauty of Buildings, even the Town itself; and particularly by being unconfin'd by the Laws of the Garrison, as above, and unencumbered with the Corporation burthens, Freedoms, Town Duties, Services and the like." Daniel Defoe describing the new development of Portsea in 1724. The older town was Portsmouth which as a garrison was surrounded by massive fortifications.