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Winchester Is A Perfect Place for a Weekend Break

Winchester is beautifully located in the built and during the Georgian period many
soft, rolling South Downs in the county of the houses dating from the Middle Ages
of Hampshire. One time capital of the were faced with brick and re-styled in
ancient English Wessex region, you can the neo-classical style favored by the
easily explore its beautifully preserved Georgians.The most famous citizen of
buildings and parks on foot. It really is Winchester was King Alfred the Great. He
the quintessential English town.People has been described as one of the greatest
settled Winchester thousands of years English men whoever lived. He was a
ago. They settled along, what is now warrior, a devote Christian, a great
called the River Itchen, whose waters are statesman and a scholar. Alfred was born
crystal clear and sustain an abundance of in 849AD and ruled Wessex (most of
fish and waterfowl. Indeed, you can see southern England) between the years 871
anglers fishing for trout within a to 899. He defeated the Danes and saved
five-minute walk of the city. The Romans the southern half of England from the
founded a garrison in Winchester and it Danelaw. He made Winchester his capital
peaked under Roman rule around the 4th and set about rebuilding the city. Upon
century. The invading Saxon tribes later his death he was buried in the city. You
remodelled it. Much of the street layout can visit the ruins of Hyde Abbey, his
is from this time. Later, after the final resting place.
Norman Conquest, Winchester Cathedral was




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