Old Hampshire Mapped
Leland's Hampshire 1635-43
Transcription (3)Winchester
town wall
town gate
Winchester Castle
Winchester Cathedral
Wolvesey Palace
The toun of Winchester is by estimation a mile in cumpace withyn the waulles.
The length 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.
The Castelle joynith hard to the south side of the west gate.
Minns:- Winchester Castle, originally built by William the Conqueror, continued one of the residences of the Kings of England until the reign of Henry III., who built the Great Hall, a remarkably fine specimen of domestic architecture of the time, formerly used as Law Courts, restored and decorated in 1874.
The cathedrale chirch and the Close lyith on the south side of the towne, and is in cumpace with the cemitery nere half a mile: and one side of it hemmith in the towne as the waul of it, even almost from the Kinges Gate to the very palace waulle of Wolvesey.
The castelle or palace of Wolvesey hemmith yn the toune waulle from the close waul almost to the [est gate].
The palace is welle tourrid, [and for the] most part waterid [about].
Minns:- Wolvesey Castle and Palace, built by Bishop Henry de Blois, 1138. Described by - Nisbett, N C H:::
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