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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 ...
The Itchen Way is a 31.80 ... watercress beds and water meadows along the upper river, the historic centre of Winchester and the Iron-Age fort of St Catherine's Hill.
The navigation flows past the grounds of Winchester College, and under Tun Bridge, which carries Garnier Road, before continuing to the remains of St Catherine's Hill Lock, some 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) downstream of Blackbridge Wharf. This lock, which now contains a modern sluice mechanism, was the location of a water-powered sawmill, located ...
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 ...
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 ...
Twyford is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England, approximately three miles (4.8 kilometres) south of Winchester and near the M3 motorway and Twyford Down.In 2001, the population of the parish was 1,456. [1]
The Itchen Bridge spans the estuary of the River Itchen just upstream of the point where it flows into Southampton Water. Fawley Tunnel carries electrical cables in a 3-metre (9.8 ft) diameter tunnel 2-mile (3.2 km) between Fawley Power Station and Chilling near Warsash. [3]