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90  ENGLAND ’ S SOUTH C O AST REGION B Y REGION

Exploring Hampshire and
Salisbury Plain

The counties of Hampshire and Wiltshire offer a great range of scenery. In eastern
Hampshire, country lanes wind along wooded valleys, such as those of the Test and
the Itchen, and weave between villages and unusual features such as the sudden
ravines of the “Hangers”. Southampton, Portsmouth and their
neighbouring coastal towns make up the region’s most Cirencester
populated area, from where ferries run to the Isle of Wight. South
The nearby New Forest is much loved by walkers and Cerney
pony riders. Further north, the majestic spire of Tetbury Cricklade Highworth
Salisbury Cathedral can be seen from the rolling
grasslands of Salisbury Plain, on which stand Malmesbury
the prehistoric sites of Stonehenge and Badminton Swindon
Avebury. In the northwest, the downs Wootton
Bassett
Lambourn
give way to honey-stoned towns such Castle Lyneham Wroughton Aldbourne
as Corsham and Bradford-on-Avon. Combe Chippenham Theale Reading
CORSHAM BOWOOD Kennet Hungerford Thatcham
Box HOUSE AVEBURY Newbury Wokingham
Sights at a Glance LACOCK Kennet and Avon Canal Aldermaston
1 Chawton Bath Burbage Shalbourne Tadley Sandhurst
Camberley
Hartley
2 Selborne and the Hangers BRADFORD- DEVIZES Kingsclere Wintney
3 Winchester pp92–3 ON-AVON WILTSHIRE Pewsey Hook Frimley
4 Portsmouth Trowbridge Upavon Basingstoke Fleet Farnborough
5 Southampton Beckington Ludgershall Odiham
6 Isle of Wight p95 Westbury Salisbur y Thruxton Whitchurch Overton Farnham Aldershot
7 Romsey Frome Warminster Tilshead Plain Andover HAMPSHIRE
8 Beaulieu
Middle
9 Lymington LONGLEAT Longbridge STONEHENGE Amesbury Wallop Sutton Alton
Scotney
Maiden
0 New Forest p97 Bradley Deverill Test CHAWTON Hindhead
Kings
q Salisbury pp100–101 OLD SARUM Stockbridge Worthy SELBORNE AND THE Bordon
w Stonehenge pp102–3 STOURHEAD New HANGERS
Liphook
e Old Sarum Mere East SALISBURY WINCHESTER Alresford Liss Fernhurst
Knoyle
r Avebury Gillingham Alderbury West Meon
t Bowood House Swallowcliffe Twyford Petersfield
y Devizes Shaftesbury Avon ROMSEY Bishop's Midhurst
u Lacock Eastleigh Itchen Waltham Clanfield
i Corsham Sturminster Fordingbridge Cadnam Horndean
o Bradford-on-Avon Newton Totton SOUTHAMPTON Wickham
p Longleat 0 kilometres 10 Stour NEW FOREST Waterlooville
a Stourhead pp106–7 0 miles 10 Blandford Lyndhurst Hythe Havant
Forum Verwood Fawley Fareham
Ferndown Ringwood Brockenhurst BEAULIEU PORTSMOUTH
Gosport
Hurn LYMINGTON South
Hayling
T h e S o l e n t
Cowes
Wootton Ryde
Christchurch Yarmouth Bembridge
Poole Freshwater Newport
Bay ISLE OF
The WIGHT Sandown
Needles Brighstone Godshill
Ventnor
Chale
St. Catherine’s Niton
Point
The chalk Needles and Trinity Lighthouse, the Isle of Wight’s most famous landmarks
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp176–7 and pp186–8
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