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The top of St. Catherine's Hill is ringed by the ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort, [2] a Scheduled Monument. [3] The fortifications consist of a single rampart (univallate dump or glacis) with an outer ditch, begun in the Early Iron Age; much of the way around there is also a counterscarp bank. At the north-east side is an original entrance ...
Between Weston Shore and the Itchen Toll Bridge the path shares its route with the Solent Way.The northern end joins the Wayfarers Walk.The path also crosses, joins or shares sections of route with a number of long distance paths converging on Winchester, including the South Downs Way, Clarendon Way, King's Way, Pilgrims' Trail, St. Swithun's Way and Three Castles Path.
The navigation passes St Catherine's Hill, an Iron Age hillfort [27] and some plague pits, which were common graves for victims of the 1666 plague. [28] It then passes under the former Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway , whose line from Winchester to Shawford Junction was operational between 1891 and 1966, [ 29 ] before being diverted ...
The final route chosen ran to the south of St. Catherine's Hill, taking 1.91 hectares (4.7 acres) (approximately 4.5%) of the Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), [1] [27] and went to a public inquiry in 1985, where the then Planning Officer of Winchester City Council described the route as "bold" and an "imaginative solution" [26]: 18 ...
Lee-on-The Solent to Itchen Estuary is a 585.9-hectare (1,448-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches along the coast between Southampton and Gosport in Hampshire. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
Mizmaze on St Catherine's Hill. The Winchester Mizmaze is most unusual, being roughly square, although its paths curve gently and it has rounded corners. It is also one of only two surviving historic English turf mazes where the path is a narrow groove in the turf (the other is at Saffron Walden, Essex).
The River Itchen in Hampshire, England, rises to the south of New Alresford and flows 26 miles (42 km) to meet Southampton Water below the Itchen Bridge.The Itchen Navigation was constructed in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to enable barges to reach Winchester from Southampton Docks, but ceased to operate in the mid-19th century and is largely abandoned today.
St Catherine's Hill may refer to: St Catherine's Hill, Dorset; St Catherine's Hill, Isle of Wight; St. Catherine's Hill, Hampshire This page was last edited on 30 ...