This volume, a companion to Hampshire: Winchester and the North,
covers the county's southern half, from the woodland and heath of the
New Forest to the cities along the Solent, and from remote Saxon
churches to Modernist seaside villas. The original text has been fully
revised to include new research and 130 specially commissioned color
photographs. The guide explores major ecclesiastical monuments at
Romsey, the Bishop of Winchester's palace at Bishops Waltham, and the
remains of the great post-Dissolution houses at Beaulieu and Titchfield.
At Southampton is one of England's best preserved medieval town walls,
while at Portsmouth the structures of the 18th- and 19th-century Royal
Navy dockyard are among the most important of their kind. Amid all this
beauty are traces of conflict, from the Roman fort at Portchester, to
the coastal castles of Henry VIII's rule, to the relics of the Normandy
invasions of 1944.