Bitterne Manor
Bitterne Manor, Southamptoncounty:
coords:
Hampshire
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The place is described in text Leland 1535-43
- Bitterne Manor
And on the right hand on the est ripe lyith almost agayn it Bythern, sumtyme a castelle longging to the bisshopes of Winchester, whereof yet sum ruines remayne: now a ferme longging to the Bisshop of Winchester.
Minns says:- At Bitterne the Bishops of Winchester had an Episcopal Palace with a square embattled tower. Here, as Lords of the Manor, they held their Courts, and in 1264 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Kilwardby, came on a visitation and kept Christmas. Part of the walls of the mediaeval palace are built into the present Bitterne Manor House.
