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Winchester (/ ˈ w ɪ n tʃ ɪ s t ər /, /-tʃ ɛ s-/) [2] [3] [4] is a cathedral city in Hampshire, England.The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, at the western end of the South Downs National Park, on the River Itchen.
Winchester Castle is a medieval building in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1067. It was founded in 1067. Only the Great Hall still stands; it houses a museum of the history of Winchester.
Winchester (/ ˈ w ɪ n tʃ ɪ s t ər /), [2] or the City of Winchester, is a local government district with city status in Hampshire, England. The district is named after its main settlement of Winchester , which is where the council is based and is also the county town of Hampshire.
After the Saxons advanced west Hampshire became the centre of the Kingdom of Wessex, and many Saxon kings are buried at Winchester. A statue in Winchester celebrates the powerful King Alfred, who stabilised the region in the 9th century. After the Norman Conquest the county was favoured by Norman kings who established the New Forest as a ...
St. Catherine's Hill is a chalk downland hill and 43-hectare (110-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the outskirts of Winchester in Hampshire, England. It is owned by Winchester College but open to the public. It is managed by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, and topped by an Iron Age hillfort, a scheduled monument.
St Swithun upon Kingsgate is a Church of England church in Winchester, Hampshire, England, built in the Middle Ages in the Early English style.Located above the medieval Kingsgate, one of the principal entrances to the city, the church is unusual in forming a part of the fabric of the old city walls.
The King's House in Winchester was a late 17th-century planned royal palace in the English county of Hampshire.Winchester had been the capital of Wessex and England in Anglo-Saxon times, but became a backwater after the Norman Conquest of England.
In 2014, ownership of the museum space was transferred to Hampshire Cultural Trust. [2] Today, the Westgate Museum's displays include a famous collection of pre-Imperial weights and measures, and a fine painted ceiling made for Winchester College in anticipation of a visit by Mary Tudor and Philip of Spain on the occasion of their marriage in ...