Hampshire: South (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300225037)

This volume, a companion to Hampshire: Winchester and the North, covers the county's southern half, from the woodland and heath of the New Forest to the cities along the Solent, and from remote Saxon churches to Modernist seaside villas. The original text has been fully revised to include new research and 130 specially commissioned color photographs. The guide explores major ecclesiastical monuments at Romsey, the Bishop of Winchester's palace at Bishops Waltham, and the remains of the great post-Dissolution houses at Beaulieu and Titchfield. At Southampton is one of England's best preserved medieval town walls, while at Portsmouth the structures of the 18th- and 19th-century Royal Navy dockyard are among the most important of their kind. Amid all this beauty are traces of conflict, from the Roman fort at Portchester, to the coastal castles of Henry VIII's rule, to the relics of the Normandy invasions of 1944.

Author: Charles O'Brien,Bruce Bailey,Nikolaus Pevsner
ISBN-10: 0300225032
ISBN-13: 9780300225037
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/29/2019
Pages: 800
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.10w x 1.80d