Walking the county towns #County Town - Walking the County Towns

MAIDSTONE

23/07/2023 07:13 PM

Originally Medestane in the Domesday book , sitting along side the river Medway The 14th Century Palace was a residence for Archbishops of Canterbury until 1538

20Jul

The South Downs rise over Lewes, above the remains of a Norman castle medieval streets Georgian buildings with the River Ouse running through the town Ann of Cleves house was given by Henry VIII to his divorced wife

20Jun

CHICHESTER

20/06/2023 05:58 PM

Originally a settlement of the Regni tribe before Romans built Noviomagus. Cissa the Saxon chiefs son then named it after himself Ceaster or Castle The cathedral begun in 1091 by Bishop Ralph, the Norman has a 277ft spire which dominates the West Sussex coastal plain

07Jun

WINCHESTER

07/06/2023 07:09 PM

Winchester was the capital of Saxon and Norman Kings. The building of the Cathedral was begun in 1093. St Swithin’s Shrine inside formed an important centre for pilgrims on the way to Beckets Shrine in Canterbury Henry VII had his first son christened in the Cathedral

05Jun

NEWPORT

05/06/2023 06:31 PM

Capital of the Isle of Wight, at the head of the River Medina

22May

DORCHESTER

22/05/2023 04:23 PM

The lines of Dorchester's main roads were laid down by the Romans. Maumbury Rings south of the town is the site of Stone Age circle adapted by the Romans as an amphitheatre which could seat 10,000 people

18May

TAUNTON

18/05/2023 04:58 PM

Taunton, lies in the vale of Taunton Deane, on the river Tone Taunton's restored Norman castle was a scene of Judge Jeffreys Bloody Assizes after the battle of Sedgemoor

26Apr

EXETER

26/04/2023 12:00 AM

Originally settled by the Celtic Dumnonii people 2/300 BC, then the Romans in AD 50. who built walls around the city and bath houses. The magnificent Cathedral completed around 1400, has 2 Norman Towers, 59ft high Bishops Throne and minstrels gallery on the north side of the nave

24Apr

Truro

24/04/2023 09:14 PM

Truro- Cornwall's cathedral city and administrative centre The cathedral which has three spires, was completed in 1910 and built on the side of the 16th century parish church of St Mary