Bishop's Waltham

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Bishop’s Waltham is a small market town built around the ruins of a palace where the medieval bishops of Winchester lived. The shell of the great hall and towers is now looked after by English Heritage and open to visit. Georgian and older houses line the streets around it. Botley station is roughly 5km to the south-west.

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Photo of Bishop's Waltham Palace, a ruined palace in Hampshire, south east England.

Bishop's Waltham Palace

Palace near Bishop's Waltham

Flint ruins of the Bishops of Winchester's moated palace, begun by Henry of Blois in the 1100s and wrecked after a Civil War siege.

0.3 km SW

Photo of the South Downs, a National Park in south east England.

South Downs

National Park near Fittleworth

A chalk ridge rolling from Winchester to the sea cliffs at Beachy Head.

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Photo along the Monarch's Way, a 625-mile long-distance path running from Worcester to Shoreham-by-Sea, England.

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Long-distance path

England's longest inland waymarked trail, tracing Charles II's escape route from defeat at Worcester in 1651 to the ship waiting at Shoreham.

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Photo of Wickham, a village in Hampshire, south east England.

Wickham

England's second-largest medieval square.

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Photo along the South Downs Way, a 100-mile National Trail running from Winchester to Eastbourne, south east England.

South Downs Way

A hundred miles of chalk ridge from Winchester to the sea at Eastbourne, walkable in a week.

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Photo of River Hamble Country Park, a country park near Bursledon, Hampshire, south east England.

River Hamble Country Park

Country park near Bursledon

A country park in Hampshire.

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