At the begging of the 20th century there used to be allotments west of today’s Cheriton road on the grounds of the Westgate School towards Greenhill Rd. Apparently the school was founded in the early 1900s but must of moved to the current site later. Does anybody know when the school was built? Go and …
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A34 through Kings Worthy
In 1958 the London and South Western Railway is where it is today, but the Didcot, Newbury and Winchester railway cut straight through Kings Worthy where the A34 is today: Go and discover historic geography of Winchester with the NLS map viewer yourself or see some of our examples. If you haven’t been, make sure you also …
Royal Winchester Golf Course
There were other kind of shots fired at the Royal Winchester Golf course about a hundred years ago: Go and discover the historic geography of Winchester with the NLS map viewer yourself or see some of our examples. If you haven’t been, make sure you also go for a walk today. We have plenty of …
Explore historic maps of Winchester
National Library of Scotland has a great map viewer that allows you to roam around a number of old map series of Great Britain. Above is an Ordnance Survey (OS) one inch to a mile displayed against a digital Digital Terrain Model captured from an airborne sensor. The collection includes several historic maps of Winchester …