South East England
Hampshire
Winchester District

Winchester

Winchester is an historic cathedral city in the county of , South East England. Erstwhile capital of the country, it was from here that Alfred the Great governed much of unified England.
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  • Type: City with 37,500 residents
  • Description: city and unparished area within the larger City of Winchester, Hampshire, England
  • Also known as: “unparished part of Winchester”, “Winchester (unparished area)”, “Winchester, Hampshire”, and “Wintanceaster”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Winchester Cathedral and Winchester Castle.

Church
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, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity and of Saint Peter and Saint Paul and of Saint Swithun in Winchester, is the cathedral of the city of Winchester, England, and is among the largest of its kind in Northern Europe.

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is a medieval building in Winchester, , England. It was founded in 1067. Only the Great Hall still stands; it houses a of the history of Winchester.

Castle
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, in Winchester, , England, was the main residence of the Bishop of Winchester in the Middle Ages. The castle, mostly built by Henry of Blois in the 12th century, is now a ruin, except for its fifteenth-century chapel, which is now part of the bishop's current residence, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chilcomb and Winnall.

Village
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is a small village and civil parish in the county of 3 miles east of Winchester and includes the South Downs Way long-distance footpath.

Suburb
is a northern suburb of Winchester, , England, on the east bank of the . It is the location of the Moors nature reserve on the flood-plain of the Itchen and the University of Southampton's Erasmus Park hall of residence.

Suburb
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is an area based around St Matthew's Church, and an ecclesiastical parish to the north-west of Winchester, , England.

Winchester

Latitude
51.0613° or 51° 3′ 41″ north
Longitude
-1.3132° or 1° 18′ 47″ west
Population
37,500
Elevation
200 feet (61 metres)
IATA airport code
WNC
United Nations Location Code
GB WNE
Open location code
9C3W3M6P+GP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1610961669
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2633858
Wiki­data ID
Q172157
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Winchester” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Winchester”
  • Arabic: “ونشستر”
  • Armenian: “Վինչեսթեր”
  • Asturian: “Winchester”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uinçester”
  • Basque: “Winchester”
  • Bavarian: “Winchester, Hampshire”
  • Belarusian: “Вінчэстэр”
  • Belarusian: “Уінчэстэр”
  • Belarusian: “Ўінчэстэр”
  • Bengali: “উইনচেস্টার”
  • Breton: “Kerwent / Winchester”
  • Breton: “Winchester”
  • Bulgarian: “Уинчестър”
  • Catalan: “Winchester”
  • Cebuano: “Winchester (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
  • Cebuano: “Winchester”
  • Chinese: “Winchester”
  • Chinese: “温切斯特”
  • Chinese: “温彻斯特”
  • Chinese: “溫彻斯特”
  • Chinese: “溫徹斯特”
  • Chinese: “溫車士打”
  • Croatian: “Winchester”
  • Czech: “Winchester”
  • Danish: “Winchester”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Winchester, İngıltere”
  • Dutch: “Winchester”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ونشستر”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وينتشيستير”
  • Esperanto: “Winchester”
  • Estonian: “Winchester”
  • Estonian: “Winton”
  • Estonian: “Wintonceastre”
  • Finnish: “Winchester”
  • French: “Winchester”
  • Galician: “Winchester”
  • Georgian: “უინჩესტერი”
  • German: “Winchester”
  • Greek: “Ουίντσεστερ”
  • Gujarati: “વિન્ચેસ્ટર”
  • Hebrew: “וינצ’סטר”
  • Hebrew: “וינצסטר”
  • Hindi: “विंचेस्टर”
  • Hindi: “विनचेस्टर”
  • Hungarian: “Winchester”
  • Icelandic: “Winchester”
  • Ido: “Winchester”
  • Indonesian: “Winchester”
  • Irish: “Winchester (Hampshire)”
  • Irish: “Winchester”
  • Italian: “Winchester”
  • Japanese: “ウィンチェスター”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಂಚೆಸ್ಟರ್”
  • Korean: “윈체스터”
  • Kurdish: “Winchester”
  • Ladin: “Winchester”
  • Latin: “Venta Belgarum”
  • Latin: “Vintonia”
  • Latin: “Wintonia”
  • Latvian: “Vinčestera”
  • Lithuanian: “Vinčesteris”
  • Luxembourgish: “Winchester”
  • Macedonian: “Винчестер”
  • Malay: “Winchester”
  • Maltese: “Winchester”
  • Manipuri: “ꯋꯤꯟꯆꯦꯁ꯭ꯇꯔ”
  • Marathi: “विंचेस्टर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Winchester”
  • Narom: “Ouînchêtre”
  • Narom: “Winchester”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Winchester i Hampshire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Winchester”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Winchester i England”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Winchester”
  • Norwegian: “Winchester”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guincestre”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guincèstre”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Winchester”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Wintanceaster”
  • Ossetian: “Уинчестер (Англис)”
  • Ossetian: “Уинчестер”
  • Persian: “وینچستر”
  • Polish: “Winchester”
  • Portuguese: “Winchester”
  • Quechua: “Winchester”
  • Romanian: “Winchester”
  • Russian: “Винчестер”
  • Russian: “Уинчестер”
  • Scots: “Winchester”
  • Serbian: “Vinčester”
  • Serbian: “Winchester”
  • Serbian: “Винчестер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vinčester”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Winchester”
  • Sinhala: “වින්චෙස්ටර්”
  • Slovak: “Winchester”
  • Slovenian: “Winchester, Anglija”
  • Slovenian: “Winchester”
  • Spanish: “Winchester”
  • Swedish: “Winchester”
  • Tajik: “Винчестер”
  • Tamil: “வின்செஸ்டர்”
  • Tatar: “Винчестер”
  • Telugu: “వించెస్టర్”
  • Thai: “Winchester”
  • Thai: “วินเชสเตอร์”
  • Turkish: “Winchester, İngiltere”
  • Turkish: “Winchester”
  • Ukrainian: “Вінчестер”
  • Urdu: “ونچیسٹر”
  • Vietnamese: “Winchester”
  • Volapük: “Winchester”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Winchester, Hampshire”
  • Welsh: “Caer-wynt”
  • Welsh: “Caerwynt”
  • Welsh: “Cair Guinntguic”
  • Welsh: “Winchester”
  • Western Frisian: “Winchester”
  • Western Frisian: “Winsjester”
  • Wu Chinese: “温彻斯特”
  • Yiddish: “ווינטשעסטער”
  • Yue Chinese: “溫車士打”

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