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Our home is located down a private lane, on the edge of a small farm, on top of a hill with stunning views of the countryside. It's a real countryside escape, but still perfectly connected - just a 5 minute drive from Winchester. With the South Downs on our doorstep, there are many beautiful villages nearby to choose from, with countless country pubs and walking routes to discover.
Twyford is our local village, set on the idyllic River Itchen. There are two pubs - including gastropub The Bugle, where Lenny Carr-Roberts (of Saturday Kitchen fame) cooks delicious meals.
FOOD:
Winchester city is full of splendid old pubs and independent eateries. Then there’s the brilliant bistros like The Ivy and celeb-chef restaurant outposts like Rick Stein Winchester and Brasserie Blanc.
For special occasion-style fine-dining you can’t go wrong with the Michelin-rated Black Rat and The Chesil Rectory .
Opened in 2021 and quite a lot cooler than it’s older sibling, Inn in the Park from the Chesil team (above) is already one of the hottest tables in town. International palate? Try Palm Pan Asia for Thai and Pan Asian cuisine, or Michelin-rated Kyoto Kitchen with its beautifully crafted Japanese food and Hants-grown wasabi.
For proper pub grub, head for one of The Little Pub Group’s eateries like St James Tavern (pies, burgers and curries all the way), The Green Man or The Corner House. Elsewhere, The Black Boy (cosy sister pub to the The Black Rat) is traditional to the core with local ales, good French wine and delicious food.
DRINK:
It may have been a religious centre for fifteen centuries, but the city doesn’t half like a drink. It’s crammed with proper, old-school boozers. Newly refurbed, The William Walker by the Cathedral Close also deserves a mention for pure history (William Walker was a deep sea diver who took a quick dip in the Cathedral’s flooded foundations thus saving this incredible building) and The Mucky Duck in Hyde for its community vibe.
For cocktail lovers, there’s Jewry Street’s The Cabinet Rooms, a café-bar with an eye-watering range of gins, many local, like Twisted Nose. For craft ale head to Overdraft also on Jewry St, with its Mexican street-food, DJ’s and Millennial crowd. Or try The Black Bottle for a decidedly grown-up version of your standard bubble-gum machine: 32 wines dispensed by the glass. Finally, there’s the Muddy Award-winning gin parlour (and home of curious smoking cocktails), Incognito.
VISIT:
First and foremost, the Cathedral. It’s worth paying the entrance price and going inside to really get a sense of this incredible, expansive space.
Look up, look down and all around – don’t mind the locals, they’re used to it, but do try not to bump into one. There’s history at every turn and you’re walking in the shadows of Romans, the great Saxon King Alfred the Great (quite literally, if you snap a selfie with his statue at the bottom end of town).
Winchester City Museum is tucked just off the High St and worth a browse for the 3D model of the city alone – it took nine years to make. And if you fancy nosing around the UK’s oldest public school, Winchester College, you can book yourself on a tour.
There’s also a slew of military museums if that’s your thing. Or jump on a bus with Grape and Grain tours to discover Hampshire’s burgeoning wine and gin scene. Irrepressible spirits expert and Winchester producers guide, Joel, will pick you up in the city and zoom you round the county’s best vineyards and spirit producers including Hattingley Valley Wines, Winchester Distillery and Red Cat Brewing.
KIDS:
Lots of simple pleasures for toddlers: the grassy area by the Cathedral is wonderful for picnics and run-arounds, there’s also a play-park at the bottom of town near the King Alfred Statue (and, happily, right next to Inn the Park in the Abbey Mill Gardens).
For older kids, try the National Trust’s City Mill, also at the bottom of town — have a go at grinding corn and challenge them to spot an otter. Winchester City Museum is also worth a look, there are floors on the city’s Roman and Anglo Saxon past plus the building is on the spot of William the Conqueror’s palace so lots of opportunities to link-up with school history lessons.
A run up St Catherine’s Hill is always fun and there are normally make-shift rope swings at the top, plus glorious views of the Cathedral for us olds. Make an afternoon of it at the Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium (pictured above). It’s a ten minute drive outside the city and brilliant for children aged around 5 – 12.
CULTURE:
The city has an incredibly rich calendar of festivals and events from the Cabinet Room’s Ginchester Fête to Winchester Fashion Week and Christmas markets. Music-wise, there’s CarFest and the Boomtown festival.
Recently rebranded as the Arc and visited by HRH Prince Charles, the Winchester Discovery Centre (basically the library) is the city’s cultural hub. Natural light pours into the atrium, there’s a café, an upstairs exhibition space, a workshop space and a bigger auditorium.
Next door is the more traditional Theatre Royal, with lots of comedy, quirky panto dames (above). Plus children’s theatre, dance and touring plays. If film’s your thing, the city’s Everyman cinema shows a decent selection of indie offerings. Plus live-streaming ballet, opera and NT plays. If this all feels too polished and perfect, head to The Railway Inn for gutsy blues, club-nights, poetry and more.
Banksy fan? Hampshire’s answer to the street art king is our very own Hendog. Find his kite-flying girl at St. Catherine’s Hill and his tribute to our indie business heroes, a child constructing a wall of multi-coloured building blocks (above), on St. Thomas Street.

History at every corner, fabulous places to eat drink and shop and dreamy Hampshire countryside in all directions. Wonderful Winchester is one the coolest Cathedral cities in the country. And it’s an absolutely brilliant place to stay – whatever the season.