Railway Chronicle / TRAVELLING CHARTS / BASINGSTOKE, WINCHESTER, / SOUTHAMPTON. / Published at the RAILWAY CHRONICLE OFFICE, 14 Wellington Street North, Strand, London. / Price One Shilling. PRINTED BY JAMES HOLMES, TOOK'S COURT, CHANCERY LANE.

RAILWAY CHRONICLE / TRAVELLING CHARTS; / Or, IRON ROAD BOOKS, / FOR PERUSAL ON THE JOURNEY: / IN WHICH ARE NOTED / THE TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, MANSIONS, PARKS, STATIONS, BRIDGES, VIADUCTS, TUNNELS, CUTTINGS, / GRADIENTS, &c., THE SCENERY AND ITS NATURAL HISTORY, THE ANTIQUITIES AND THEIR / HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS, &c., PASSED BY THE LINE OF THE RAILWAY. / With numerous Illustrations. / Constituting a Novel and Complete Companion for the Railway Carriage. / (This series of Charts is Copyright under 5 & 6 Vict. c. 45, and any infringement will be prosecuted) / LONDON TO BASINGSTOKE, WINCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON, / ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN.

Published at the Railway Chronicle Office, 14, Wellington Street, North, Strand, by J. Francis. Price One Shilling. / SIMILAR CHARTS FOR / BRIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE, GOSPORT, OXFORD, AND / BIRMINGHAM, DOVER, GUILDFORD, RICHMOND, / Are published or in course of publication. / The Railway Chronicle, / Containing the earliest and most authentic information on all matters connected with railways, with illustrative Maps and Engravings, is published every Saturday, in time for the Morning Mails, price Sixpence, (with Supplements Gratis when required,) stamped to go free by Post. / PRINTED BY JAMES HOLMES, 4, TOOK'S COURT, CHANCERY LANE.

(The traveller DOWN from London should sit back to the engine. The traveller UP to London should sit facing the engine, and read UPWARDS. The objects and the Notes will then follow in the order in which they occur. ...)

1 to 64000

1 inch to 1 mile

Every viaduct, bridge, river, pathway, cutting and tunnel is marked by the proper diagram in this chart. They hardly require a key.

... passing above the railway in a cutting

... passing beneath the railway on an embankment

... a stream passing beneath the railway

... a level road or pathway;

a tunnel

A railway between the metropolis and Southampton was first projected as early as 1825, but nothing was accomplished. The present scheme was projected in 1832, and it received the sanction of the Legislature in 1834. To alter the works and raise more capital another Act was obtained in 1837.

The works were begun early in 1835, under Mr. Giles, engineer; but their progress being unsatisfactory, that gentleman resigned, and was succeeded, in 1837, by Mr. Locke, the engineer of the Grand Junction. From that time the works advanced rapidly, and on the 21st of May 1838 the line was opened as far as Woking, and throughout to Southampton on the 11th of May 1840. The branch from Bishopstoke to Gosport was opened in February 1842, ...

In examining the London and Southampton line, we shall do injustice to the views of its original projectors, if we view it only as a line having as its terminus the town of Southampton. Such was not their original intention. We shall better render justice to their enlarged views by adopting the more comprehensive title now in use, and designate it the London and South-Western Railway. It was merely the first portion;- the grand trunk of a group of lines designed for the accommodation of a large and rich extent of the rich and populous country which lies in the region to the south and west of London, between the district of the Great Western and the English Channel, comprehending the whole of Surrey, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, and parts of the surrounding counties. We have before us a plan published in 1834, the year in which the company got their Act, for extending the line from Basingstoke to Bath, following nearly the route of the Kennet and Avon Canal. We have next another plan by Stephenson, in 1836, extending the line from Basingstoke and Winchester, to Salisbury and Taunton, where it was to join the Bristol and Exeter, and connecting Wincanton, Yeovil, Langport and Ilminster, by short branches. On the other hand, there was likewise an extension, proposed by Mr. Giles, from Basingstoke, directly to Exeter, through Salisbury, Sherborne and Honiton, with a branch to Newbury and Oxford. The line was thus intended to accommodate the whole of this southern and western district between the Great Western and the sea.

This will enable readers who examine the map to see why the present line - somewhat circuitous as a mere line to Southampton - was adopted as the route for the South-Western; a much more direct line might have been formed, through Guildford and Alton, to Southampton; but as far as Basingstoke the line is made to form the grand trunk of the whole South-Western communication, of which the remainder to Southampton may be considered as one of the tributary branches. The present course of the line from the station at Nine Elms must be regarded, when we take all these elements into consideration, as judicious.

The TRAFFIC was estimated to produce 347,000l. per annum, including 23,333l. for fish to come from Torbay, but which has yet to come. Within three months after the opening, the traffic in passengers realized the estimate of Mr. Chaplin, the present chairman, viz., 125,000l. The receipts for 1845 have been upwards of 354,000l., so that in less than six years the estimated traffic has been fully realized.

The works on the line were estimated to cost 894,874l., with the addition of 11 1/2 per cent. for contingencies. The capital to be raised was 2,000,000l. The expenditure, exclusive of the Gosport branch, exceeds that sum, and including it, at present amounts to 2,600,000l. The land alone, including compensation, &c., cost 300,000l. - more than one third of the original capital.

The ENGINEERING characteristics of this line are strongly marked. Without large commercial termini, without the extensions it was designed to possess, yet by virtue of economical construction and management, and the intrinsic power of the railway accommodation to generate traffic, it has been rendered a profitable and valuable line. Although in remuneration, and therefore commercially, a line of the first class, yet in engineering peculiarities it belongs to what is generally called the second class, that is, has long and steep gradients; and although it encounters great physical difficulties, it does not present any of those gigantic bridges, viaducts and great efforts of design and masonry, which delight the engineer more than they profit the shareholder. The engineering characteristics of the line are long and steep gradients and enormous earthworks. In gradients, it has a single inclined plane of 1 in 250, extending from Litchfield tunnel, 54 miles from London, down to Bishopstoke, a distance of 17 miles. Litchfield is a summit, 392 feet above the level of the termini at Nine Elms and at Southampton, both almost on the level of the Trinity high-water mark; and as this summit has to be gained from the London side within a length of 54 miles, and on the other within 23, it is plain there is much heavy work to be done both ways. Of the earthworks a sufficient notion will be gained from the statement before the Parliamentary Committee by the engineer who originally projected the line, that the aggregate earthwork amounts to 16 million of cubic yards - a mass of material sufficient to form a pyramid having for its base 150,000 square yards, and for its height 1,000 feet. Distributed along the whole line, it gives about 200,000 cubic yards per mile. The steep gradients are chiefly caused by the extensive high ridge of country which runs east and west through Hampshire, near the middle of the line, and which it is not possible to avoid. The brick and stone work on the line is inconsiderable.

Every viaduct, bridge, river, pathway, cutting and tunnel is marked by the proper diagram in this chart. They hardly require a key...
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The scale is an inch to a mile.

The GEOLOGY of the line presents but two varieties of strata. It begins at London, and ends, both at Portsmouth and at Southampton, with the tertiary formations, passing first through the London Clay as far as Walton, then plastic clay and sands from Walton to Basingstoke - then over about 25 miles of chalk between Basingstoke and Bishopstoke, seven mile beyond Winchester, when it again reaches the London clay. The Guildford terminus just touches the upper greensand.

Positively every station on this line is a starting point for a delightful PLEASURE EXCURSION. ... Farnborough , for Silchester, one of the very finest remains of a large Roman station, and Farnham which will delight the archaeologist; Winchfield, for the old town of Odiham; Basingstoke, for old Basing House and Church; Winchester, for its Cathedral and Hospital of St. Cross, that beautiful medieval remain; Bishopstoke, for the banks of the crystal-dashing Itchen; Fareham, for Portchester Castle. ... Our penny supplementary Excursion Papers will therefore be found to be many, proportional to the attractions.

(The traveller DOWN from London should sit back to the engine. The traveller UP to London should sit facing the engine, and read UPWARDS. The objects and the Notes will then follow in the order in which they occur. The objects visible from the railway, and those quite adjacent to it, are denoted in smaller type, in the centre column, at the exact places where they are seen. The distance of the principal places from the stations is stated. The Notes in the side columns refer to places and objects in the neighbourhood of the railway at the respective side of it.)

NINE ELMS STATION

(The course of the line is nearly west as far as Winchester, and then south.)

...

level

[stream] Brook dividing Surrey and Hampshire

HAMPSHIRE

[road under]

[road over] London to Gosport

Farnborough

[to north:-]

BAGSHOT 5 miles

BLACKWATER 4

FRIMLEY 1 1/4 mile

SANDHURST 4

[to south:-]

FARNHAM 6 miles

The Bagshot Sands, which begin immediately on quitting Walton, attain at the 30th mile a very considerable thickness. They consist of beds of ferruginous and ochreous sands resting on white and light greenish sandy clays and marls, in some parts fossiliferous, containing numerous casts of marine shells and teeth of a species of squallous or shark. These beds overlay the London clay, and extend from Walton to Farnborough, where a thick bed of dark clay rises from beneath them for a short distance, and is then succeeded by the chalk. This is the most southern point of what is termed the London Bason. After passing through the chalk for about 20 miles, the sands and clays of the tertiary beds again appear; this is called the Hampshire Bason, but, from the great similitude of the strata and fossils, there can be little doubt that both the London and Hampshire deposits were formed at the bottom of one sea, which, judging from recent analogies and the wide distribution of fossil species, must have been rather a shallow sea, with no very great variety of depth. At the junction of the clay with the chalk, the beds rise at an angle of about 45 degrees, the chalk being very much displaced, and in some parts assumes a vertical position, the whole mass appearing to have been violently upheaved, and the tertiary beds carried off by denudation, thus leaving a broad ridge of chalk dividing the tertiary beds, and giving them the appearance of two separate deposits.

[road under] Hartley Row to Cove

[road under] Blackwater to Cove

[stream] Cove brook

[road under]

[road over] From Elvetham to Farnham

ascend 1 in 528

[north] Fleet Mill

[stream]

[south] Fleet pond

[road over]

The sides of this and other cuttings, especially through the sand, are brilliant with the golden gorse, at which the great botanist Linnaeus wept and prayed when he first saw it in this country

level

[south] The Fox Hills in the distance

35 Through Fleet Pond, an extensive sheet of water on table land, exposed to the wind, and often agitated by high waves, the line passes on a bank of sand. This presented a problem of considerable difficulty and anxiety, - the conditions of which were satisfied by the engineer in the following manner, which has been perfectly successful, and may therefore be a useful example to other engineers. The slopes were first faced with sods, then thatched over with hazel-rods, and pinned down with willows, which have since taken root, and matted the turf on the sand.

[road over] Hartford Bridge to Farnham

[road under]

ascend 1 in 330

[road under]

[road under] Pale Lane

[road under]

[south] Dogmersfield Church in distance

[north] Hartley Wintney Church

[road under] Water Lane

[road under]

Winchfield

[to north:-]

HARTLEY WINTNEY 1/12 mile

HECKFIELD 4

STRATFIELDSAY 6

[to south:-]

GREWELL 2 miles

ODIHAM 2 1/2

WINCHFIELD 1

[road over] London to Odiham

level

[tunnel] Shapley Heath cutting. Tunnel 282 feet long, under the Portsmouth road.

Hartley Wintney Church is picturesque, with a well-wooded and broken foreground. The tower of the church, which has been lately restored with commendable taste, groups well with the adjacent foliage.

The country about Stratfieldsay is its most attractive feature. No one would object to holding the estate on the same tenure as the Duke of Wellington namely, an annual present to Windsor Castle of a little silk banner hung in the guardroom over the Duke's bust.

At Hartford Bridge, the traveller will meet with an inn where the Duke [of Wellington] engages bed-rooms for his guests, so it is kept in excellent order.

Winchfield is the station at which the pedestrian should alight for visiting the Roman town of Silchester. If a vehicle is wanted, then go to Basingstoke. Flys and carts drawn by mules are readily to be hired. Nothing but ruined walls, well covered with ivy, inclosing a space of 100 acres, and fields, positively a mass of broken tiles, remain to denote this apparently extensive Roman station. The streets, crossing the area, and an amphitheatre at the north-east may be traced. Constantine was crowned in this now desolate spot, A.D.407. The most palpable thing is the masonry of the walls. A Norman church, with later details, ancient tomb, font, and some paintings, is in the midst of the area. It has picturesque rudeness and dilapidation, and should be entered. The wooded scenery of Silchester is very rich, and altogether, the spot, with its meagre Roman ruins and desolation and beauty of foliage, is attractive for a picnic. He must be a councillor of the Archaeological Institute who would be tempted by its antiquarian merits alone to journey there

38 Winchfield Church affords a good caution not to judge hastily from the outside of things. The outsides of the church certainly afford no temptation to enter, notwithstanding there is a fine recessed ornate romanesque door at the west; but the ecclesiologist should enter, and he will find a romanesque arch over the chancel, with a sort of crumpled soffit - a very rare example. The Norman font is placed immediately beneath the chancel arch.

Odiham has a charmingly clean country look, with tempting inns - the George especially so. It is a venerable place, with fragments of a castle, and an episcopal palace. The church is most attractive inside; outside it looks to have been patched with brick by Inigo Jones. The little almshouses at the south of the churchyard are picturesque. Odiham was the birthplace o William Lilly, in 1646, whose Latin grammar was so esteemed that it was even penal to use any other.

[road over]

[stream] White Water stream

[stream]

Embankment

[road under]

[south] Odiham in mid-distance

[north] Hook Common

ascend 1 in 469

[road under]

[road over] Hook to Odiham

[tunnel]

descend 1 in 330

[road over] London to Southampton

Cutting of 700,000 cubic yards

[road under]

descend 1 in 330

[south] Church of Nately Scures: next to that of St. Lawrence, in the Isle of Wight, perhaps the smallest parish church in the south of England

[stream]

[road under]

Embankment

42 These cuttings run through clay, with a peaty stratum below, which yielded to pressure of the banks (here nearly 50 feet high), and sank 25 feet, raising, at the same time, the adjacent meadows like waves of the sea in all directions around it. Here, then, was a large culvert, through which was transmitted the water of a stream; and when the banks went down, the ends of this culvert, which had been originally laid on the surface, turned up, the centre went down, and the passage of the water was entirely stopped. In the mean time, however, a new culvert had been commenced. A tunnel driven through the bank, and, by indefatigable exertion, completed and opened for the passage of the water, just as the other became completely closed, and so saved several thousand acres of the finest land in Hampshire from being laid under water.

42 1/2 St. Swithin's, Nately Scures. - A little Norman Church, only eighteen paces long, with a circular apse and beautiful doorway at the north, the general character of which is shown by the woodcut, but the engraver has misinterpreted the mouldings and one capital. The church is seen from the railway. It should be visited at the same time as Basing House.

[road over]

On sand

level

[road under]

[south] Old Basing Church and the ruins of the house

[stream] Old Basing stream

ascend 1 in 250

[road under] River Lodden

44 1/2 Old Basing, with its church and ruins of Basing House, is a famous place for a visit: - to do so, alight at Basingstoke. A ramble among the battered ruins recalls the size and grandeur of the house which the first Marquis of Winchester built in Elizabeth's time. It was the last stronghold against the parliamentary forces. So often were they beaten here that it was nicknamed Basting House; but Cromwell came at last and battered it down, 14 Oct. 1645: - 'firing,' says Carlyle, whose account, and also Hugh Peters' letter, should be read on the spot, 'about 200 or 300 shot at some given point till he sees a hole made, and then storming like a fireblood.' In less than twenty hours it was demolished. It took fire, and every one had to leave to carry off the materials, signs of which are still seen in the neighbouring buildings. 'Provisions for some years rather than months, 400 quarters of wheat; bacon, divers rooms full, containing hundreds of flitches; cheese proportionable, with oatmeal, beef, pork; beer, divers cellars full, and that very good,' so writes Hugh Peters. There was a bed which cost 1,300l. An officer says the same Hugh, was killed who measured 9 feet! Inigo Jones and the old engraver, Hollar, were prisoners at the siege. The main part of old Basing Church is of late perpendicular work, but Norman arches are to be seen inside. The tombs in the chancel, and the doorways, with their 'squints' or places for seeing the ceremonies at the altar are curious. The groupings of the old buildings are very picturesque. The place is, indeed, well worthy a special excursion.

[south] Workhouse

[south] Eastrop Church

[road over]

[road under]

45 Monk Sherborne still perpetuates by its name the existence of the Alien (i.e. subservient to a foreign abbey) Priory, founded in the reign of Henry the First. It is one of the numerous instances which remind us how really practical was the religious feeling of our forefathers.

St. Nicholas, Newnham, is almost wholly a restoration, hardly worth a special visit.

level

Basingstoke

[to south:-]

CLIDDESDEN 2 1/2 m.

ascend 1 in 240

[road under]

Basingstoke, one mile and a half distant [from Old Basing], offer tolerable accommodation at the Lamb and George commercial inn - but the place itself has not much attraction. John de Basingstoke, an eminent scholar of the thirteenth century; and the discoverer of Lancaster Sound, Sir John Lancaster, celebrated for his discoveries in North America, were natives of Basingstoke. The population is about 3,500.

46 The ruins which stand in such bold relief close to Basingstoke station are those of a Tudor chapel, founded by Lord Sandys, and dedicated to the Holy Ghost.

[road under]

[road under]

Winklesbury circle, a mile further west [of Basingstoke], is a large encampment, 1,100 yards in circumference, formed of flints. It was used by Oliver Cromwell as a station for surveying Basingstoke and Old Basing before he bombarded and overcame the latter.

On chalk which continues to Winchester

[road under]

[road over]

ascend 1 in 400

[road under]

ascend 1 in 1,350

[road over] Oakley road

[road over]

[road over]

[road under]

[road over]

[road under]

ascend 1 in 627

[road under] Steventon road

[road under] Foot-path from Steventon

[road under] Overton to Waltham

This is the highest point on the line, to which it has been ascending from London

descend 1 in 250

Overton, an old dilapidated borough, - so worn out that it lost its parliamentary representatives and charter and market, is chiefly and almost only attractive to the fisherman, for the trout of the little stream, which are extolled.

... Between Andover and Winchester, the country is not tempting to the pedestrian. Adjacent to the line on the north there is only the church of Stoke Charity to tempt the ecclesiologist, but he may find several on the south side.

St. Michael's, Stoke Charity, presents several features of mixed styles, especially a rich perpendicular tomb, with a canopy let into the wall on the north of the chancel.

St. Mary's, Wike or Week, is hardly worth visit, unless it be for a brass representing St. Christopher, with an inscription, which records that William Complyn was a donor at the dedication of the church, 1499.

Road at South Litch

[tunnel] Litchfield tunnel, 200 yards long

Chalk cutting

392 feet above the termini at Nine Elms and Southampton

[road over]

[road over]

[tunnel] 200 yards long

Chalk cutting

[tunnel] 250 yards long

[road over]

Andover Road

[to north:-]

ANDOVER 13 miles

STOCKBRIDGE 12

WHITCHURCH 6

[to south:-]

POPHAM 1 1/2 mile

[road over]

Andover is a town old enough at least to be recorded in Domesday Book, and supposed to be even the site of the Roman town Andaoreon. The traces of several Roman encampments may be found in the vicinity of it. The church has some Norman, we are disposed to say even Saxon remains, for it was given by William the Conqueror to the abbey of St. Florence at Salmur, in Anjou. Three miles south-east of the town stood Whorwell or Wherwell Nunnery, erected by Queen Elfrida in expiation of her murders of her husband Ethelwolf and her son Edward A.D.986. So easy was absolution for murder!

Stratton Park, about three miles from the Andover station, is the seat of Sir Thomas Baring, who collected there many valuable pictures, both ancient and modern.

[road under]

The line as far as Winchester takes the same course as the Roman road from Silchester to Winchester, called Popham lane

[road under] Sufton way

[road under]

[stream] Brook near Weston stream

[south] Micheldever Church

[road under] To Bond farm [south]

Micheldever embankment, 90 feet deep

[road under]

[road under]

[road over]

[tunnel] Tunnel 500 feet long

[south] To Lunway's Inn

Waller's Ash cutting

[road over]

[road under] To Hook Pit farm [south]

Embankment

[road under] [ditto]

[road under] to Woodham farm [south]

Winchester raceground

[road under]

[south] Upper farm

[road under] To Headbourn Worthy

[level crossing]

[south] Bartholomew Hyde, near

Winchester

Embankment

St. Mary's, Kingsworthy, has nothing remarkable but a cross inlaid with flint work, at the east end.

St. Martin's Church, Headborne Worthy, may possibly be older than the Norman Conquest - see a rude sculpture of the Crucifixion, at the west end of it.

Chalk cutting

[road under] Andover road [north]

[road over]

[road over]

Winchester

[to north:-]

BROUGHTON 12 miles

ROMSEY 10

SALISBURY 25

STOCKBRIDGE 9

[to south:-]

ALRESFORD 7 miles

HEADBORNE WORTHY 2

PETERSFIELD 9

[south] Barracks

[road over]

Chalk cutting

[road over]

[south] Cathedral

[road over]

[road under]

[south] St. Catherine's Hill

To enumerate the infinite variety of interesting features, picturesque, architectural, and antiquarian, at Winchester, is far beyond the limits of these jottings, and we must refer to our 'Pleasure Excursions.' There are ample materials for at least three days: - visit the cathedral, the churches, Wykeham's College, the so-called Arthur's Round Table in the Town Hall, Wolvesey Palace, and particularly St. Cross Hospital. The walk thither by the crystal and rapid river must on no account be missed. The tourist who really wishes to master the history of the Norman nave and transepts, decorated chapels, old wall, paintings, stained glass, &c. of the Cathedral, &c, should possess himself of a volume of the 'Proceedings of the Archaeological Institute,' at Winchester. It is abundantly illustrative: full of research and information. Our engravings will supply the place of further description, as our chart exhibits some of the principal objects. (For convenience of arrangement a few illustrations will be found on the other side).

Hospital and village of St. Cross

[road under]

[level crossing]

[road under]

[road over] From Southampton [north]

[tunnel] Wallerash tunnel

Badly out of place!

66 A day at St. Cross Hospital make a delightful excursion. The Hospital and Church, both rich in picturesqueness, and the latter a very interesting architectural study of early Norman work - the quiet monastic look of the place - the old hospitallers in their black gowns and silver crosses - the old hall - kitchen - rooms - and glass of beer and bread given to every wayfarer who chooses to apply for them, make the spot quite unique in all England.

[road over]

[road over] Hence to Southampton [ ] the surface of the ground

[road over]

When the old house at Hursley was pulled down, the die of the Great Seal of the Commonwealth was found in the walls and was doubtless the same which Oliver Cromwell took from the Parliament. His feeble son and successor Richard, who was only fitted to be a quiet domestic man, lived at Hursley, and was buried in the church there.

[road under] Road at Shawford

[road under]

[road under]

[road under]

Itchen river parallel

Embankment

In All Saints, Compton, ecclesiologists will find some Norman vestiges, a decorated window and good chancel arch.

Alexander Pope is said to have been educated at Twyford.

[road under] Bambridge lane

On London clay

[stream]

[road under]

[road under]

[road under] To Albrook [south]

[stream] Itchen navigation

St. Andrew's, Titchborne, offers some curious old paintings and memorials of the Tichborne family.

[stream] Itchen navigation

Embankment

descend 1 in 528

[south] Gravel pit

[road over]

Bishopstoke

[junction to south] Gosport branch

[level crossing]

[level crossing]

Bishopstoke is remarkable for a modern church in a most vile taste. Its badness is supreme; but its situation, by the 'crystal dashing' Itchen, is quite lovely. The banks of this river hereabouts are full of beautiful points.

[level crossing]

Lyford and Winchester stream

[stream] Swaythling brook

[road under]

[road over] Stoneham to Southampton

descend 1 in 400

74 The church of North Stoneham and the neighbouring park should be visited from Southampton - and they are worth a visit, if it were only for the sake of the monument and hearty epitaph of Sir Thomas Fleming, chief justice of England, 'coupled in the blessed state of matrimony to his virtuous wife, 1613.' The more ostentatious monument commemorates the feats of Admiral Lord Hawke, who died 1781, and especially the battle with Conflans, in Quiberon Bay, 1759. 'The bravery,' says the epitaph, 'of his soul was equal to the dangers he encountered; the cautious intrepidity of his deliberations superior even to the conquests he obtained. The annals of his life compose a period of naval glory, unparalleled in later times, for whenever he sailed, victory attended him. A prince, unsolicited, conferred on him favours, which he disdained to ask.' The churchyard on the borders of the park, and the church with foliage and herds of deer, browsing close to the churchyard, makes a very agreeable picture. The spot is about equi-distant from Bishopstoke station and the terminus at Southampton.

[road over]

[stream] Itchen water

Very slight ruins exist to mark the site of the priory of Black Canons, which Henry the First, about A.D.1124, built two miles out of Southampton, and dedicated in honour of St. Dionyse or Dennis.

[road over] Portsmouth road

[level crossing]

Canal

[road over] Chapel road

[level crossing] Road round the marsh

[level crossing]

[level crossing]

[tunnel]

SOUTHAMPTON

Southampton is a venerable town; accredited as the place at which, nine centuries ago, the tide washed king Canute's feet. It was the seat of a great wine trade in the thirteenth century. Of its churches, walls, gates, remains of castle, there is no room to speak here; but we may say that they afford abundant materials to interest the archaeologist and artist, and the general visitor will at least be delighted with the Southampton Water. The spacious docks are quite modern, and are already successfully realizing their object, and bringing great trade. The next step is to reclaim the mud banks from the sea: were that accomplished, Southampton might become as pleasant and healthy a sea-bathing place as any on the coast.

Netley Abbey is about three miles on the banks of the Water, and is a beautiful ruin of early English architecture.