South East England
Hampshire
Test Valley District

Romsey

Romsey is a picturesque market town of about 15,000 people in the Test Valley district of , . It sits on the outskirts of the New Forest, just over 3 miles northeast of its eastern edge.
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  • Type: Town with 19,400 residents
  • Description: town in Hampshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Romsay” and “Romsey, Hampshire”
  • Postal code: SO51 9AW

Places of Interest

Highlights include Broadlands and Romsey Abbey.

Manor estate
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is a country house located in the civil parish of , near the town of Romsey in the Test Valley district of , . Its formal gardens and historic landscape are Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.

Church
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is the name currently given to a of the Church of England in Romsey, a market town in , England. Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was the church of a Benedictine nunnery.

Railway station
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serves the town of Romsey in , England. It is on the Wessex Main Line, at the junction for the Eastleigh to Romsey Line, 80 miles 47 chains from . The station is a Grade II listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Abbotswood and Awbridge.

Suburb
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is a new 52-hectare building development planned to have 800 homes. It is located just to the north east of the town of Romsey in the Test Valley local government district.

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of , England, about three miles northwest of Romsey, and near the .

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of , England. It is in the civil parish of . Its nearest town is Romsey, which lies approximately 2 miles west from the village.

Romsey

Latitude
50.9891° or 50° 59′ 21″ north
Longitude
-1.4999° or 1° 29′ 60″ west
Population
19,400
Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)
Inception
January 1st, 0907
United Nations Location Code
GB RMS
Open location code
9C2WXGQ2+M2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 696729
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2639189
Wiki­data ID
Q1234718
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Romsey” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رومزي”
  • Armenian: “Ռոմսի”
  • Asturian: “Romsey”
  • Basque: “Romsey”
  • Bengali: “রোমসে”
  • Catalan: “Romsey”
  • Cebuano: “Romsey”
  • Chinese: “拉姆西”
  • Chinese: “罗姆西”
  • Dutch: “Romsey”
  • Finnish: “Romsey”
  • French: “Romsey”
  • Georgian: “რომსი”
  • German: “Romsey Abbey”
  • German: “Romsey”
  • Gujarati: “રોમસી”
  • Irish: “Romsey”
  • Italian: “Romsey”
  • Japanese: “ラムジー”
  • Japanese: “ラムゼイ (ハンプシャー)”
  • Japanese: “ロムジー　(ハンプシャー)”
  • Japanese: “ロムジー”
  • Kannada: “ರೊಮ್ಸೆ”
  • Korean: “롬지”
  • Ladin: “Romsey”
  • Latin: “Romsey”
  • Lithuanian: “Romsis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Romsey”
  • Persian: “رامسی”
  • Persian: “رومزی”
  • Polish: “Romsey”
  • Portuguese: “Romsey”
  • Romanian: “Romsey”
  • Russian: “Ромси”
  • Slovenian: “Romsey”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رامسی”
  • Spanish: “Romsey”
  • Swedish: “Romsey”
  • Tamil: “ராம்சேய்”
  • Telugu: “రొంసీ”
  • Urdu: “رومسیی”
  • Volapük: “Romsey”
  • Welsh: “Romsey”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Romsey”. Photo: Poliphilo, CC0.