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Walk Winchester in AD 900

AI rebuilds Wintanceaster (Winchester) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.

Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk

Alfred's Winchester, 900

This is Winchester at the moment it is being remade as a defended burh under King Alfred and his successors: a new grid of straight streets within ancient Roman walls, two great minsters side by side, a royal hall and the first moneyers striking silver pennies. The walk follows the narrow paved lanes, the river mills and water meadows of the Itchen, and the gates and walls that frame urban life.

34 scenes — 21 streets, squares and views, 13 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Winchester as it stood in AD 900 (“Winchester”).

The route, scene by scene

  1. 1. St Catherine's Hill Approach
  2. 2. South Gate
  3. 3. Southgate Street
  4. 4. High Street
  5. Merchant's Hall · interior
  6. 5. St Peter Cheesehill
  7. Parish Nave · interior
  8. 6. Old Minster Forecourt
  9. Great Nave · interior
  10. 7. New Minster Precinct
  11. Scribe's Scriptorium · interior
  12. 8. Cathedral Precinct
  13. Chapter House · interior
  14. 9. Royal Palace
  15. Great Hall · interior
  16. 10. The Mint
  17. Moneyer's Workshop · interior
  18. 11. Moneyer's Yard
  19. Assay House · interior
  20. 12. Kingsgate
  21. Gate Tower Chamber · interior
  22. 13. Westgate
  23. West Gate Guardroom · interior
  24. 14. Itchen Bridge
  25. 15. Itchen Mills
  26. Upper Mill Floor · interior
  27. 16. Itchen Watermeadows
  28. Weir-Keeper's Hut · interior
  29. 17. North Gate
  30. 18. Northgate Street
  31. 19. Nunnaminster
  32. Convent Refectory · interior
  33. 20. St Swithun's Row
  34. 21. St Giles' Hill Vantage