|
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY 
Arms of Hampshire County CouncilThis work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket fair use categories listed at Wikipedia:Fair use#Images or Wikipedia:Fair use#Audio_clips. However, the individual who uploaded this work and first used it in an article, as well as subsequent persons who place it into articles, asserts that this use qualifies as fair use of the material under United States copyright law. Hampshire County is on the south coast of England in the United Kingdom. It borders (clockwise from West), Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey and West Sussex. The chalk downland of the South Downs and southern edges of Salisbury Plain were settled in the neolithic, and these settlers built hill forts and may have farmed the valleys of Hampshire. The Celts named the area 'Gwent or YWent' which covered Hampshire, Somerset and Wilshire. When the Romans invaded Britain, Hampshire was the first to fall to the invading forces. Hampshire bacame a Saxon 'shire' after its occupation of Jutish tribes. It is recorded in 755 and it represented the west part of Saxon England while Doset and Somerset were fought off by the Britons. Hampshire became the centre of the Kingdom of Wessex. King Alfred stablised the area during the 9th centruy. There is a statue of him in Winchester. Many Saxon kings are buried there. After the Conquest of 1066, Hampshire became a favorite of the Norman kings. The county was divided into 44 hundred as recorded in the Domesday Book. The Ports of Hampshire increased trade and the manufacture of wool and cloth. The fishing industry flourished and shipbuilding began. Southampton and Portsmouth remained important harbours because they are some of the few locations that combine shelter with deep water. The Mayflower and the Titanic were two famous ships that came into the Southampton Port. William The Conqueror established New Forest as a hunting forest in 1079 for the hunting of primarily 'deer'. The Domesday Book has it recorded in 1086 as "Nova Foresta"From the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, parts of the forest were cleared for cultivation. The cleared land became wasteland as the soil was not good for that type of use. William Rufus was killed in a suspicious accident while hunting in the New Forest in 1100. The reputed spot of the king's death is marked with a stone known as the Rufus Stone. New Forest was an important source of wood for the Royal Navy, and plantations were begun to replace the trees that had been cut. In the Great Storm of 1703, about 4,000 oak trees were lost in the New Forest. Most of New Forest is still owned by the 'Crown'. The New Forest Pony is a Native pony breed of the British Isles. They are strong, sure footed and hardy. They are sometimes thought to be running loose in the New Forest in England but they are owned by Commoners of the New Forest. They are cared for by employess of the Forestry Commission. A New Forest pony  Taken by Joe D, January 2005 This file is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution Share Alike 1.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/ As far back as 1016, references have been made to the New Forest Pony. It has an ideal temperament and should be very easy to train. Castles and forts were built along the coast of the Solent to defend the harbours at Southampton and Portsmouth. The Norman Portchester Castle overlooks Portsmouth Harbour. Henry VIII built Hurst Castle on a sand spit at the mouth of the Solent. Calshot Castle was also built on a sand spit at the mouth of Southampton. The beginning of Romsey Abbey can be traced back to 907 A.D. when King Edward the Elder first settled some nuns there under the charge of his daughter Ethelflaeda. Winchester Cathedral in Winchester, Hampshire is one of the largest cathedrals in England. The earliest part of the present cathedral building is the crypt, which dates from the early 12th century. Gloucester Cathedral in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the river. It originated with the foundation of an abbey dedicated to Saint Peter in 681 (dissolved by King Henry VIII of England). SOURCES: Wikipedia Encyclopędia Britannica, 1911. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY MAPS  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and-or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts: Subject to disclaimers PICTURES of HAMPSHIRE Places Winchester High Street Winchester, Hampshire, England A plate from Hampshire, a book by Robert Mudie published in 1853. Artist unknown.  This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less. Winchester is best known for the Great Hall, which was built in the 12th century and is the only surviving portion of Winchester Castle. The Great Hall was rebuilt, sometime between 1222-1235, and still exists in this form. In the grounds of the Great Hall are a recreation of a medieval garden along with the Wedding Gates and Law Courts. Historically, Winchester possessed several water mills driven by the various channels of the River Itchen that penetrate the city centre. One of these, Winchester City Mill, has recently been restored, and is again milling corn by water power. Settlement goes back to pre-Roman times. There is evidence of Iron Age hill forts around the city. Under the Romans the town, then named Venta Belgarum, was of considerable importance. Statue of King Alfred the Great at Winchester  Picture taken by Odejea on August 2005, the 25th at Winchester I, the author of this work, hereby publish it under the following licences: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Text. Winchester was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Wessex from 519. Although it was not the only town to have been the capital, it was established by King Alfred the Great as the main city in his kingdom in 827. The Saxon street plan laid out by Alfred is still evident today: a cross shaped street system. THE BEAULIEU RIVER  This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 1.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/ NEW APARTMENT BLOCKS IN BASINGSTOKE  View from railway station forecourt, Basingstoke, England Photograph taken by chris_j_wood on the 27th May 2004 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts: Subject to disclaimers SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS  Taken by Joe D, November 5, 2004.Taken by Joe D. This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License v. 1.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/ |