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St. Giles Hill - View Point
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Wonderful park nearby with space for kicking a ball, playing hide and seek and a great look out across Winchester.
St. Giles Hill is the summit of a Chalk Spur, which fails steeply to east bank of River Itchen. Formerly a bare down, on which, in the late 11th Century, the St. Giles Fair, the largest fair in Europe was held every September. For the sixteen days of the fair, all other trading in Winchester ceased, and the Bishop received the revenues normally due to the King. Encroached upon by villa building at the end of the 19th Century, when the trees to be seen today were planted. Public outcry stopped the building, and saved the summit and south west slopes of hill as open space, which affords magnificent views over the City and St. Catherine’s Hill. Free of charge.
St. Giles Hill is the summit of a Chalk Spur, which fails steeply to east bank of River Itchen. Formerly a bare down, on which, in the late 11th Century, the St. Giles Fair, the largest fair in Europe was held every September. For the sixteen days of the fair, all other trading in Winchester ceased…
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Winchester, England