Winchester
Winchester (16th century)Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, city - Southamtoniae
The toun of Winchester is by estimation a mile in cumpace withyn the waulles.
The lenghth of it lyith from est to west: the bredth from north to south.
Ther be in the waulles vj. gates, by est one: by west an other: the third by south: the 4. by north. The 5. is caullid the Kinges Gate, and is betwixt the south gate and Wolvesey and Bisshopes palace. The 6. is betwixt north gate and est gate, no great thing but as a postern gate namid Bourne Gate.
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There hath been withyn the town waulles a ... paroche chirches. Bisshop Fox suppressid dyverse, of the[m, un]iting the people of them to ma[intain the ot]her yet standing: and to make [som honest] lyving onto the incumbent. [Ther be yet] ... paroche chirches [standing within the waulles] of Win[chester.]
Minns says:- If Winchester abounds in churches now it might in early days have been called a 'city of churches.' Dr Milner computes the number in Henry I.'s reign at 92, including 12 belonging to religious communities.
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... the water [Alresford water ie Itchen] beginnith to breke into armes, and those again into other armelettes that resorte to Hyde, and the lower partes by est of Winchestre, serving the streates plentifully of water, the Close, S. Maries Wolvesey and the new college.
Minns says:- Until the close of the last century, an open stream ran down a portion of the High Street, and at a still later period the roadway of another street was for a considerable distance through the water, whilst in several other streets there were smaller streams.
The way from Winchester to London.
To Alresford vij. miles.
To Altoun vij. miles.
To Farenham vij. miles.
To Guldeford [ix.] miles.
To London [xxv.] miles.
Minns says:- Our Author's statement of distances here, as in other places, do not agree with our present measurements.
