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  Welcome to Winchester - Visit Winchester
Find out what life was like in Winchester during the time of Elizabeth I's reign with the help of our programme of special events, or retrace the steps of stars Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen as you visit the filming locations.
Popular for its shopping streets and architecture, its floral summer season and quirky open air events, Winchester is most well known for its eleventh century cathedral and for the Great Hall which for over 600 years has housed the mysterious Round Table.
Winchester College is the oldest continuously running school in the country, whilst the Hospital of St Cross - a medieval almshouse - still offers the Wayfarer's Dole to travellers as it has done for more than eight centuries.
www.visitwinchester.co.uk   (362 words)

  
  Winchester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winchester is a historic city in southern England, with a population of around 40,000 within a 3 mile radius of its centre.
The famous novelist Jane Austen died in Winchester on 18 July 1817 and is buried in the cathedral.
The city of Winchester is twinned with Laon in France and the Winchester district is twinned with Gießen in Germany.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winchester   (1114 words)

  
 Winchester rifle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winchester rifle refers to an early family of repeating rifles manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company that was used widely in the United States during the latter half of the 19th century.
The ancestor of the Winchester rifles was the Volcanic rifle of Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson.
The Winchester Rifle is the rifle used by Shaun in the film Shaun of the Dead to defend the Winchester Pub from a zombie invasion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winchester_rifle   (693 words)

  
 GO BRITANNIA! TRAVEL GUIDE: Winchester - Britannia's Magical History Tour
Winchester may be rich in history, but it is certainly not lost in the past and is a pleasure for the modern traveller.
Winchester was the ancient capital city of Wessex, the predominant kingdom of the West Saxons, one of the original seven kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that struggled for pre-eminence in Anglo-Saxon England.
The construction of Winchester Cathedral was begun in 1079.
www.britannia.com /travel/magical/magic14.html   (756 words)

  
 Winchester - Tour the historic Hampshire Town of Winchester
Winchester is a city in southern England, and the administrative capital of the county of Hampshire, with a population of around 35,200.
Winchester was formerly the capital of England, during the 10th and early 11th centuries.
The city of Winchester is twinned with Laon in France and the Winchester district is twinned with Gießen in Germany.
www.vrwinchester.co.uk   (556 words)

  
 Winchester Homes - New Home Builder in Virginia and Maryland
Winchester Homes invites you to a life without limits, offering an unparalleled level of customization that's easy and cost effective.
Winchester Homes is named The 2006 Builder Of The Year by the Maryland-National Capital Building Industry Association (MNCBIA).
Winchester is registered trademark and is used with permission.
www.winchesterhomes.com   (323 words)

  
 Britannia King Arthur: Winchester
Winchester appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of the Kings of Britain" as a city favoured by High-King Ambrosius Aurelianus; and it was here that he apparently died.
Winchester is first identified as the great Camelot of legend by Sir Thomas Malory in his "Le Morte D'Arthur" which was first printed by Caxton in 1485.
The identity of Winchester as Camelot was, and is, further proofed by the fact that the vast Round Table of King Arthur himself hung on the wall of the Great Hall of Winchester Castle.
www.britannia.com /history/arthur/winchester.html   (619 words)

  
 Winchester (United Kingdom) Travel Guide
Winchester is a cathedral city in Hampshire, in the South of England and the Saxon capital of England.
Winchester has a reasonable bus service, both within the town and to the surrounding area, although frequencies can be quite low with little service in the evenings or on Sunday.
Winchester's area code is 01962 when dialed from within the UK or +441962 from outside the UK.
www.imakoopedia.org /en/article/Winchester_(United_Kingdom)   (2622 words)

  
 Winchester Woodlands Guide
The glacier left a generous supply of kettle ponds in the Winchester area (causing it to be called Waterfield at an earlier time) and rounded the river bank granite ridges, fluting them with striae which run from north to south as the glacier traveled.
The central portion of the Middlesex Fells west of route 93 surrounds the Winchester Reservoirs and is not open to the public; the borders of this area are marked on the map.
Locke Farm, acquired as conservation land in 1972, is a 10 acre woodland, marsh and swamp on the western edge of Winchester next to the 120 acre Whipple Hill conservabservetion area in Lexington.
www.winchestermass.org /oldwoodguid.html   (2944 words)

  
 THE WINCHESTER HOUSE!
The family prospered and on September 30, 1862, at the height of the Civil War, William Wirt Winchester and Sarah Pardee were married in an elaborate ceremony in New Haven.
She also received 48.9 percent of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and an income of about $1000 per day, which was not taxable until 1913.
Winchester was sleeping on the night of the earthquake) collapsed, shifting the room and trapping Sarah inside.
www.prairieghosts.com /winchester.html   (2373 words)

  
 Tony Blair looks depressed. By June Thomas
Winchester is the kind of polite place where the local disaffected youths relinquish their customary perch on the steps of the ancient Buttercross monument so that a man in a frayed band uniform can entertain passers-by with a musical saw.
With its prosperous, property-owning population, Winchester is also the sort of place that should be Tory territory, but it's not.
George Hollingbery, Winchester's high-energy Conservative candidate, told me he would like to be able to spend enough to run a professional campaign, though he recognizes that the British system will always have limits preventing rich candidates from taking an unfair advantage.
www.slate.com /id/2117174/entry/2117848   (1120 words)

  
 Winchester
Winchester got into the reel business by purchasing the Andrew B. Hendryx Co. They continued on the lines of lower quality reels manufactured by Hendryx, and also added some designs of their own, producing some quality level wind and non level wind reels made of nickel silver.
Winchester also had a line of cheaper second-line baits, but little is know about them at this time.
Winchester’s venture into the hardware and general sporting goods business was great for collectors today, but a disaster to the company.
www.oldfishingstuff.com /winchester.htm   (564 words)

  
 The Official Winchester Cathedral Website
Begun in 1079 in the Romanesque style, this Cathedral is at the heart of Alfred's Wessex and a diocese which once stretched from London's Thames to the Channel Islands.
Winchester Cathedral is famous for its chantry chapels, where daily masses were said for the bishops buried within them.
Stephen Gardiner (1531-55) was the last important Roman Catholic bishop of Winchester, during the reign of Mary Tudor (Queen Mary I).
www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk /history   (650 words)

  
 Olin: Winchester
Winchester supplies Winchester® sporting ammunition, canister powder and reloading components to recreational shooters worldwide and to military and law enforcement agencies.
Founded in 1866, Winchester is one of the world's most widely recognized and respected brand names.
Winchester continues to capitalize on growing segments of ammunition users, such as women shooters and the popularity of target shooting.
www.olin.com /business/winchester.asp   (121 words)

  
 Home page
Winchester City Council is required to review its licensing policy by January 2008.
Winchester Cathedral is to display the Millennium Egg in their Treasury display case after being presented with the egg as the winner of the Business Excellence Award in June of this year.
Winchester Open Weekend (WOW) returns for its seventh year this September with a host of FREE events and activities allowing everyone a peek into some of the district’s most intriguing buildings.
www.winchester.gov.uk   (490 words)

  
 Centerfire Handgun
And to millions of hunters and shooters worldwide, the name "Winchester" means quality and performance - and the most complete, versatile and high-performance line of handgun ammunition in the world.
In addition, for more than a century, Winchester has been the first to answer the call to arms by producing billions of rounds of small-caliber ammunition for the United States military and its allies.
Winchester USA brand ammunition provides great performance at a value price.
www.winchester.com /products/catalog/handgun.aspx   (292 words)

  
 News and Events - The University of Winchester
The University of Winchester is based on an Anglican Foundation and has a longstanding tradition of high quality provision in Theology and Religious Studies with a national reputation for excellent initial teacher education.
The University of Winchester awarded her an honorary Doctorate of Letters in 1997 in recognition of her achievements and contributions to public life.
The University of Winchester’s small and friendly community environment will ensure that you are a name not a number and receive the high quality student experience that you deserve.
www.winchester.ac.uk /home.aspx?Page=3468   (1883 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ancient See of Winchester
The Diocese of Winchester then consisted of Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex; but Sussex was afterwards formed into the See of Chichester, and the Isle of Wight was added to Winchester.
The church at Winchester, which became the cathedral of the new diocese, had been founded and endowed in 634 by King Cynegils, whose son Coenwealh added more lands to its possessions.
BRITTON, History and Antiquities of Winchester Cathedral (London, 1817); CLARENDON and GALE, History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Winchester (London, 1715); WARTON, Description of City, College, and Cathedral of Winchester (Winchester, 1750); Annales Monast.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15649c.htm   (567 words)

  
 Winchester Estate Agents Jackson-Stops & Staff
The Hampshire Office based in Winchester works in close cooperation with our existing offices in Newbury, Chichester and Midhurst and provides a link between the London offices and throughout the south of England from Kent to the West Country.
Winchester, once the nation's capital, is one of the most fascinating cities in Britain.
The region is well served by main roads with the M3 running just to the east of the city which provides fast access to the M25 orbital motorway, the airports and London or southwards to the M27 and the A34 runs northwards to the A303 and the M4.
www.jackson-stops.co.uk /offices/winchester.html   (310 words)

  
 California private communities – private golf and residential community - Winchester Country Club
Winchester Country Club is an exclusive private golf and residential community, located in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains and just a short drive from Lake Tahoe or Sacramento.
Winchester Country Club offers a select number of expansive one to six-acre custom golf course homesites, city or mountain view estate home sites, a limited number of custom estate homes and private golf memberships for the championship Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Winchester’s private golf and residential community offers the best of country club living with a luxury resort lifestyle, and all as an amenity to your own custom estate home.
www.winchestercountryclub.com   (235 words)

  
 Winchester, New Hampshire
Following the wars, it was incorporated as Winchester, for Charles Paulet, Marquis of Winchester, third Duke of Bolton, and constable of the Tower of London.
Over fifty years, Winchester's population grew by a total of 1,756 residents, going from 2,388 in 1950 to 4,144 residents in 2000.
The 2004 Census estimate for Winchester was 4,255 residents, which ranked 87th among New Hampshire's incorporated cities and towns.
www.nhes.state.nh.us /elmi/htmlprofiles/winchester.html   (351 words)

  
 Winchster Firearms, Gunbooksales.com, Mail Order Catalog of Gun Books
This is the third volume in Arthur Pirkle's study of the Winchester Lever Action Repeating Rifles.
Winchester Model 97 and Model 12 trench and riot guns are described fully by serial number range.
In The Winchester Model 52: Perfection in Design, the author presents the reader with a thorough historical look at the model from its inception to the end of its production in the early 1980's.
www.gunbooksales.com /winchstr.htm   (1138 words)

  
 Winchester, Kentucky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Winchester is the seat of Clark county and is located at the junction of US 60, KY 627, and KY 89.
It is also served by I-64 and is at the western end of the Mountain Parkway.
It was founded in 1792 with the new county and named for Winchester, Virginia.
www.uky.edu /KentuckyAtlas/ky-winchester.html   (51 words)

  
 Winchester Cathedral Walk
Once England's capital, but now a quiet market town, Winchester is built on the banks of the river Itchen in Hamphsire.
Catherine's hill, on the edge of the city, to the south is more than walking distance from the cathedral, but is itself a popular spot for a country walk, and provides a general view of the Itchen valley, and the location of the town and the cathedral.
Giles' hill, to the east of the town centre is a short, but steep walk from the end of Winchester high street.
home.clara.net /reedhome/winchester/main.htm   (361 words)

  
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 Winchester School Committee
Winchester schools are faced with a potential $800,000 deficit next year.
Regular meetings of the Winchester School Committee are usually scheduled for 7:00 PM on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month from September through June at the Lynch Elementary School Library, 154 Horn Pond Brook Rd. Winchester.
Establishing goals and policies for the Winchester School System relating to education and insuring that the policies are implemented by the Administration.
www.winchester.k12.ma.us /SC   (392 words)

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