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   What is Winchester College known for?

   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. The War Cloister, Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire, England. Winchester, town and city (district), in the central part of the administrative and historic county of Hampshire, England. It is best known for its medieval cathedral.

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   How did Winchester get its topography?

   • The first source for the ancient topography of Winchester is a possibly spurious charter of Edward of Wessex given in 901–9 to Bishop Denewulf, in which the four main streets of the town are noted. (fn. 9) The next source is the survey of 1148, (fn. 10) which gives the first evidence of the extent of the 12th-century town.

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   What is Winchester known for?

   • Winchester lies in the valley of the Itchen, surrounded by chalk down-land. Roman roads approach it from all sides, and the Itchen while navigable brought it into touch with Southampton, and so with the centres of continental trade. The present area of the city is 1,906 acres, that within its ancient walls being 138 acres.

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   Was Winchester a borough?

   • The ancient borough of Winchester lay within the walls, but the east and west sokes, or suburbs, which entirely surrounded it, were for long considered part of the city, so that at the inquiry regarding parliamentary boundaries of 1832 it was stated that the division between them had in places become lost.

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   Who ruled Winchester?

   • Under the Saxon bishops and Alfred the Great (ruled 871–899), Winchester became a centre of learning. It was also the seat of government of the Danish king Canute (ruled 1016–35), and several early kings, including Alfred and Canute II, were buried there.

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   Where is Winchester Cathedral?

   • Ceiling vaults in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, Hampshire, England. The glory of the historic city is its great cathedral, the longest (556 feet [169 metres]) in England. The original Saxon Cathedral Church of St. Swithun was replaced by the Norman structure of Bishop Walkelin (1070–98).

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   6 days ago · The first source for the ancient topography of Winchester is a possibly spurious charter of Edward of Wessex given in 901–9 to Bishop Denewulf, in which the four main streets of the town are noted. (fn. 9) The next source is the survey of 1148, (fn. 10) which gives the first evidence of the extent of the 12th-century town.

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   Jun 1, 2024 · Among many educational institutions, the most famous is the boys’ school Winchester College, founded by William of Wykeham in 1382. The city constitutes a district that extends well beyond the historic cathedral town to include a broad rural area.

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   Jun 21, 2024 · In fact, in the original foundation charter, John White was informator or schoolmaster of Winchester College, becoming Warden the following year. After this, every Warden until John Cobb, who died in 1724 (with the exception of Thomas Brathwaite, 1712-20) held a prebend.

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   Jun 14, 2024 · The current archivist of Winchester College, Suzanne Foster, reckons its great historian was Herbert Chitty. One of the most successful popular histories, It Happened in Hampshire , published in 1936, was edited by Winifred Beddington (Longstock’s local historian) and Elsa Christy, for the Hampshire Federation of Women’s Institutes.

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   Jun 22, 2024 · On the dissolution of this college among the smaller houses, in 1536, it formed one of the numerous grants made by Henry VIII. to Thomas Wriothesley, who sold the site to the warden and fellows of Winchester College for £360.

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   2 days ago · Stay in touch with Winchester College and support its heritage by becoming a Friend of Winchester College. The Friends was formed in 1989 with the objective of forming closer bonds between the School, the local community, parents, staff, Wykehamists and past visitors.

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   May 31, 2024 · Described by Historic England as the largest private war memorial in Europe, the War Cloister was commissioned by the school's headmaster, Montague Rendall, to commemorate the 500 Wykehamists killed in the First World War.