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Alresford Property For Sale & Rent
Alresford is situated in the county of
Hampshire, Old and New
Alresford are separated by less than a mile, and between them lies all that is left of Bishop Godfrey
de Lucy's splendid reservoir, Alresford Pond, which was built in the 12th cent, to make the
River Itchen navigable from Southampton
to Bishops Sutton just near
here, it is crossed by a causeway, and was
reputed in the 18th cent, to be a
good place for eels, also you can find extensive watercress beds.
New Alresford is a pleasant market town, which before the Conquest belonged to
the Bishops of Winchester.
There has been new development, and there are few
very old houses since a succession of fires swept through in the 17th and 18th
cents.
The most pleasing architecture is to be found in and near
Broad Street, which is as wide as its name implies, Here you can
find a plaque states that Mary Russell
Mitford, author of Our Village, was born here, at the bottom of the street there
is an old medieval bridge.
Alresford church is 19th-cent., in Perpendicular
style, and contains two Anglo-Saxon roods.
The gravestones include some to
Napoleonic prisoners of war.
Old Alresford is smaller, a pleasant village with a
stream running through the green. The church, on the way to New Alresford, was
rebuilt in the 18th century, and transepts added in the 19th century
Northing ton is one mile to the north and the church on the hill here is a splendid
example of the 19th-cent. Gothic revival.
The flint and stone chequer-work is
attractive, and the whole church, built by Thomas Jackson for Lord Ashburton in
1889, is impressive.
The Grange, a mansion with a superbeoclassical.
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