Winchester hampshire

Explore northern Hampshire and visit Winchester Cathedral, one of the most impressive and historic cathedrals in Winchester, England.

This guide has everything you need to take a day trip to Winchester. It's one of the oldest cities in Britain, and there's a wealth of treasures here.

We owe the present form of Winchester Cathedral's magnificent West End to William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester. William the Conqueror had a new church begun in the Norman style in 1079 to replace the older Saxon cathedral. In the later 1300s, however, the original twin Norman towers at the West End became unsafe, and this prompted the shortening and remodelling of the whole of the Nave. Bishop Edington undertook the work, but it fell to his successor as Bishop, William of Wykeham, to…

The historic city scored highly on wellbeing

https://flic.kr/p/t7gz8v | St. Thomas street in Winchester, Hampshire

On 20th March The Sunday Times published their annual list of the Best Places to Live in Britain, and Winchester came out as number one in the whole country

Winchester, Hampshire🌳🌾🍃 by Allan Harris Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/fbvzkL