You can’t go too far in Southampton without discovering one of the city’s numerous medieval features. Many features are fairly close to one another, so you could book into a comfortable Southampton hotel so that all your sightseeing needs are accommodated with a fair amount of ease!
Symbol of the city, the Southampton Bargate is what is considered one of the longest walls from the medieval era found in England. The city was once a city where impressive architecture could be found in abundance but Second World War bombing put paid to this. Many brilliant examples of Georgian architecture were devastated during this period although an old building dating back to the beginning of the fifteenth century, the Wool House (today a Maritime Museum) at the Town Quay survived, thank goodness!
For a change of scenery, drive off to the nearby New Forest Park and see if you can swap spying for old houses for lovely New (Forest) Ponies!
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