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Southampton is a city in Hampshire, England.The area has been settled since the Stone Age. Its history has been affected by its geographical location, on a major estuary on the English Channel coast with an unusual double high tide, and by its proximity to Winchester and London; the ancient and modern capitals of England.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Southampton, Hampshire, England. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Local history & maritime digital archive - a collection of over 10,000 items reflecting the merchant shipping connections of Southampton and its port. [6] [7] "Titanic Voices" oral history collection. [8] A collection relating to this ship which departed from Southampton on its final voyage, extracts from which were published in book form in ...
Southampton's town walls are a sequence of defensive structures built around the town in southern England. Although earlier Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlements around Southampton had been fortified with walls or ditches, the later walls originate with the move of the town to the current site in the 10th century.
The church was built to serve that part of the parish of St. Mary, Southampton ("St. Mary Extra") which lay on the south side of the River Itchen. It was the first church to be consecrated in Southampton after the Reformation. The church was extensively rebuilt throughout the 19th century, with the addition of a west porch and south transept ...
Pages in category "History of Southampton" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
RMS Queen Mary in Southampton, June 1960. The Port of Southampton is a major passenger and cargo port located in the central part of the south coast of England. It has been an important port since the Roman occupation of Britain nearly two thousand years ago, and has a multifaceted history.
Southampton as a port and city has had a long history of administrative independence of the surrounding County; as far back as the reign of King John the town and its port were removed from the writ of the King's Sheriff in Hampshire and the rights of custom and toll were granted by the King to the burgesses of Southampton over the port of ...