Romsey Abbey
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Overview
Romsey Abbey is a handsome Norman church built from 1120 to 1170, with a low, square tower, massive walls and an interior of beautifully carved Norman arches. After the Dissolution the church was purchased by the townspeople for the sum of £100. Today it is the biggest parish church in Hampshire. It contains two remarkable Saxon stone carvings from earlier churches on the site, and its treasures include the Romsey Psalter (a 15th-century illuminated manuscript), and a monument to the noted economist Sir William Petty (1623–87), born in Romsey, and a founder member of the Royal Society. Lord Mountbatten of Burma (1900–79), one-time confidant to Prince Charles, is buried in the abbey.
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- Opening Times: Open all year, Mon–Sat 7.30–6, Sun 11–6
About the area
Hampshire’s varied landscape of hills and heaths, downlands and forests, valleys and coast are without rival in southern England. Hike across the chalk downland of the north Hampshire ‘highlands’, meander along peaceful paths through unspoilt river valleys of the Test, Itchen, Avon and Meon, or explore the lonely salt marshes and the beautiful medieval forest and heathland of the New Forest.
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