The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . questered valley : then itproceeds through an open forest country, and l)ecomes navigalile ni ss bv that iiaiiie. which wasjn-obably its only oni in the pa>t. Meonware was a Ilclisli province when there fiOlTHAMITOX riiOU THE WATER. The Itchen.^ WILLTAM OF WYKETTAM. 13 was a king of the Soutli Saxons, and Saint Wilfrid jireaclied Christianity to theBritish heathen. Indeed a portion of Corhamjjton Chiuch, across tlie stream, isascribed to that prehite. Wickham, most beautif
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . questered valley : then itproceeds through an open forest country, and l)ecomes navigalile ni ss bv that iiaiiie. which wasjn-obably its only oni in the pa>t. Meonware was a Ilclisli province when there fiOlTHAMITOX riiOU THE WATER. The Itchen.^ WILLTAM OF WYKETTAM. 13 was a king of the Soutli Saxons, and Saint Wilfrid jireaclied Christianity to theBritish heathen. Indeed a portion of Corhamjjton Chiuch, across tlie stream, isascribed to that prehite. Wickham, most beautifully situated on the Arle, iscelebrated as the birthplace of William of Wykeham, the great the poet lived his last days at Wickham, and died there in the tirst yearof the century. References to William of Wvkcham contimiallv occui- in coiuitN- Hants: thus. ): A. Scden, lUili ROMSEY AHIIEV {j>. 19l. in the district under consideration there are a AV^?keham chancel at !Meonstoke, aWykeham foundation of tive chantries near the coast at Southwick, and a reputedWykeham aisle in the church at Titchfield. The renuiins of Funtlev Abbey arenaturally not far from the stream. They are close to TitcliHcld. and mark the siteof a Priory founded by Bishop de Rupibus in the reign of Henry III. The housewhich Sir Thomas Wriothesley built upon the place acquired in the usual way atthe Dissolution was right statelie when Leland described it; and this was theTitchfield House where poor Charles Stuart found - temporary refuge between theflight from Hampton Court and tlie grim lodging of Carisbrooke. The Itchex, as next in order on our westward progress, must receive firstconsideration, though it is the smaller of tlie streams which pay tribute to the Solentat Calshot Castle. The Itchen and tlie Test have many things in common:they botli rise out o
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