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  Winchester - LoveToKnow 1911
The city was sometimes granted as part of the dowry of a queen consort, and it was the home of Emma, the wife of Æthelred the Unready and of Canute, and later of Edith, the wife of the Confessor.
Winchester was very prosperous in the years succeeding the Conquest, and its omission, together with London, from Domesday Book is probably an indication of its peculiar position and importance; its proximity to the New Forest commended it to the Norman kings, and Southampton, only 12 m.
Winchester seems to have reached its zenith of prosperity at the beginning of the 12th century; the first check was given during the civil wars of Stephen's reign, when the city was burned.
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  Winchester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winchester is an historic city in southern England, with a population of around 40,000 within a 3 mile radius of its centre.
Winchester was formerly the capital of England, during the 10th and early 11th centuries, and the capital of Wessex before that.
The city of Winchester is twinned with Laon in France and the Winchester district is twinned with Gießen in Germany.
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Winchester or Winton (archaic) is a historic city in southern England, with a population of around 40,000 within a 3 mile radius of its centre.
Winchester was formerly the capital of England, during the 10th and early 11th centuries, and before that the capital of Wessex.
The city of Winchester is twinned with Laon in France and the Winchester district is twinned with Gießen in Germany.
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 Winchester, England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winchester is a city in southern England, and the administrative capital of the county of Hampshire, with a population of around 35,000.
It is the seat of the City of Winchester local government district which covers a much larger area, and was formerly the capital of England.
William of Wykeham (1320-1404) played an important role in the history of the town; as Bishop of Winchester he was responsible for much of the current structure of the cathedral and also founded Winchester College.
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 Winchester information - Search.com
Winchester is an historic city in southern England, with a population of around 40,000 within a 3 mile radius of its centre.
Winchester is best known for the Great Hall, which was built in the 12th century and is the only surviving portion of Winchester Castle.
Winchester's association football (soccer) club, called Winchester City F.C., was founded in 1884 and has the motto "Many in Men, One in Spirit", and currently play in the Sydenhams Wessex League Division 1.
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 Winchester - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Winchester is a historic city in southern England, with a population of around 40,000 within a 3 mile radius of its centre.
Winchester was formerly the capital of England, during the 10th and early 11th centuries.
Winchester is also famous for the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, one of the oldest acute hospitals in the area.
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 Winchester (disambiguation) - LoveToKnow 1911
There is more than one meaning of Winchester discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.
We are planning to let all links go to the correct meaning directly, but for now you will have to search it out from the list below by yourself.
This page was last modified 11:54, 26 May 2007.
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 :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
For other uses of the name see Winchester (disambiguation)}} {{GBdotWinchester - Hampshire}} Image:Winchester cathedral side.jpeg thumbright200pxWinchester Cathedral image:arms-winchester.jpg thumbright200pxArms of Winchester City Council Image:Round Table.jpg thumb200pxrightKing Arthurs' Round Table '''Winchester''' is a City status in the United Kingdom city in southern England, with a population of 40,000 within a 3 mile radius of its centre.
It is the seat of the Winchester district City of Winchester local government district, which covers a much larger area, and is also the administrative capital and county town of Hampshire.
Winchester's football (soccer) association football (soccer) club, called Winchester City F.C., was founded in 1884 and has the motto "Many in Men, One in Spirit".
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 wikien.info: Main_Page : W/WI/WIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Winchester College is a public school situated in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England.
Winchester Magnum refers to a "family" of cartridges developed by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company [link], one of the oldest firearms manufacturers in the United States, in the late 1950's and early 1960's, all based on the same basic cartridge case.
Winchester Palace was a thirteenth century palace, London residence of the Bishops of Winchester.
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 Winchester (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Winchester is a type of glass bottle used in laboratories for the storage of corrosive chemicals.
The Winchester is a fictional pub in Shaun of the Dead based on the Shepherds in Highgate.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 Winchester - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Winchester is a city in southern England, and the administrative capital of the county of Hampshire, with a population of around 35,200.
Although it was not the only town to have been the capital, it was established by King Alfred the Great as the main city in his kingdom in 827.
University College Winchester (formerly King Alfred's College) is situated within the city, as is the Winchester School of Art, part of the University of Southampton
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 Winchester Homes
thumbright200pxArms of Winchester City Council Winchester is a city in southern England, and the administrative capital of the county of Hampshire, with a population of around 35,200.
Winchester College is a public school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England.
Winchester College was founded in 1382 by William of Wykeham, the Bishop of Winchester and High Chancellor of England, who also founded New College, Oxford.
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 Farnham - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
At the time of the Danish invasion in the 9th century there was a battle on the edge of the settlement when Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great, routed the invaders.
The town is midway between Winchester and London and in 1138 Henry de Blois (grandson of William the Conqueror, and brother of King Stephen) started building the Castle to provide accommodation for the Bishop in his frequent journeyings between his cathedral and the capital.
In 1660 the Bishops of Winchester were restored to the adjoining Bishops Palace, which remained their residence until 1927.
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 Southampton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Southampton is a city and major port situated on the south coast of England, in the county of Hampshire.
Although Stone Age settlements are known to have existed in the area, the first permanent settlement was established by the Romans.
Known as Clausentum, it was an important trading port for the large Roman towns of Winchester and Salisbury.
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 Southampton - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Although Stone Age settlements are known to have existed in the area, thefirst permanent settlement was established by the Romans.
Known as Clausentum, it was animportant trading port for the large Roman towns of Winchester and Salisbury.
The VikingKing Canute the Great is supposed to have defeated the Anglo-SaxonKing Ethelred the Unready here in 1014 and his fabled attempt to "command" the tide to halt took place in Southampton.
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 London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
London has been one of the world's most important centres of commerce and politics for almost two millennia (although the capital of England was Winchester during most of the Dark Ages).
The term "London" was used for hundreds of years to refer to the conurbation centred on the small City of London.
The fortified Roman City of London was reoccupied around the late 9th-early 10th century, whereafter it resumed its role as England's biggest city (although not its capital - Winchester served as capital until the 12th century).
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 Southampton
Southampton is a city and major port situated on the south coast of England.
Established by the Romans as Clausentum, it was an important trading port for the large Roman towns of Winchester and Salisbury.
The Anglo-Saxons moved the centre of the town slightly and its prosperity was assured in the Dark Ages when Winchester became capital of England.
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 Winchester -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
William of Wykeham (1320-1404) played an important role in the history of the town; as Bishop of Winchester he was responsible for much of the current structure of the cathedral and also founded Winchester College as well as Magdalen College, Oxford.
Page 3 glamour model Lucy Pinder was born in Winchester on December 20, 1983.
Winchester also have a rugby team named Winchester RFC.
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 Winchester, England - TheBestLinks.com - Football (soccer), Gun, Hampshire, Henry VIII of England, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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Winchester's association football (soccer) club is called Winchester City F.C. External links
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 winches information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Winchester is a city in southern England, and theadministrative capital of the county of Hampshire, with a population of around35,000.
It is the seat of the City of Winchester localgovernment district which covers a much larger area, and was formerly the capital of England.
Winchester remained thecapital of Wessex, and then England, until some time after the NormanConquest when the capital was moved to London.
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 Winchester - Maryland Lawyer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In Julia Cho's provocative Winchester House, making its world premiere at the Boston Court Theatre in Pasadena, an Asian American woman is haunted by her childhood memories, memories that she felt she couldn't fully explore until the...
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 Aldhelm - Wikipedia
This he did in a long and rather acrimonious letter to their king Geraint (Geruntius), and their ultimate agreement with Rome is referred by William of Malmesbury to his efforts.
In 705, or perhaps earlier, Haeddi, bishop of Winchester, died, and the diocese was divided into two parts.
Sherborne was the new see, of which Aldhelm reluctantly became the first bishop.
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 London Paper @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In a retaliatory attack, Aethelred's army achieved victory by pulling down London Bridge with the Danish garrison on top (thought to have been immortalised in the nursery rhyme "London Bridge is falling down"), and English control was re-established.
Westminster became the seat of the royal court and government (persisting until the present day), whilst its distinct neighbour, the City of London, was a centre of trade and commerce and flourished under its own unique administration, the Corporation of London.
Eventually, the adjacent cities grew together and formed the basis of modern central London, superseding Winchester as capital of England in the 12th century.
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 Winchester - Wikitravel
Winchester (England) - a city in Hampshire, South East (England)
If you arrived here by following a link from another page you can help by correcting it, so that it points to the appropriate disambiguated page.
This page was last edited at 03:22, on 15 May 2007 by Stacy Hall.
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 Winchester (disambiguation) - TheBestLinks.com - Canada, Hard disk, United States, England, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Winchester (disambiguation) - TheBestLinks.com - Canada, Hard disk, United States, England,...
Winchester (disambiguation), Canada, Hard disk, United States, Winchester,...
This is a disambiguation page, i.e., a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 M14 (rifle) -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Winchester, Remington, and Springfield Armory's own John Garand offered different conversion designs.
Garand's design, the T20, was the most popular, and T20 prototypes served as the basis for a number of Springfield test rifles from 1945 through the early 1950s.
The latter was based upon.30-06 brass cut down to the length of the.300 Savage cartridge.
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 Winchester, Wisconsin
Winchester is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Wisconsin:
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If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
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 Winchester - City of Winchester   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Winchester Systems provides NAS, DAS, tiered-storage and SANs for enterprise and SMB data storage solutions.
Winchester School of English,is a small school with very small classes and a maximum of 40 students.
Richard Ewell to attack the US force at Winchester and clear the Lower Valley of Union (Note: US casualty figures for Second Winchester vary widely.
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 London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
has been one of the world's most centres of commerce and politics for almost two millennia (although the of England was Winchester during most of the Dark Ages).
After fall of the Roman Empire the Roman city was virtually abandoned a Saxon town named Lundenwic was established a mile or two in the Aldwych area in the 7th century AD.
The fortified Roman City of London was reoccupied around the late 9th -early 10th century whereafter it resumed its role as biggest city (although not its capital - Winchester served as capital until the 12th century).
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 Encyclopedia - Southampton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Viking King Canute the Great is supposed to have defeated the Anglo-Saxon King Ethelred the Unready here in 1014 and his fabled attempt to "command" the tide to halt may have taken place in Southampton.
By the 13th Century, Southampton had become a leading port, and was particularly involved in the wool trade.
Routes run eastwards to Portsmouth and Brighton, north-east to Winchester and London, north to Reading, Birmingham and beyond, north-west to Salisbury and Bristol and west to Bournemouth, Poole and Weymouth.
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 Farnham: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The town is midway between Winchester and London and in 1138 Henry de Blois (Henry de Blois: henry of blois (1111-1171) was bishop of winchester from 1129 to his death....
In 1648 the keep was partially dismantled by the victorious parliamentarians, at the orders of Oliver Cromwell (Oliver Cromwell: English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)), to make further occupation by garrison impossible.
From 1927 until 1955 it was a residence of the Bishops of the newly created diocese of Guildford (Guildford: guildford is the county town of surrey, england, as well as being the seat for...
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