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Visit New Alresford and the surrounding villages and stay in bed & breakfast accommodation:

Alresford. Hampshire. Old and New Alresford are separated by less than a mile, and between them lies all that is left of Bishop Godfrey de Lucy's splendid reservoir, Alresford Pond, which was built in the 12^th century to make the River lichen navigable from Southampton to Bishops Sutton just near here. It is crossed by a causeway, and was reputed in the 18^th century, to be a good place for eels. There are extensive watercress beds here.

New Alresford is a pleasant market town, which before the Conquest belonged to the Bishops of Winchester. There has been new development, and there are few very old houses since a succession of fires swept through in the 17^th and 18^th centuries. The most pleasing architecture is to be found in and near Broad Street, which is as wide as its name implies. Here, as a plaque states, Mary Russell Mitford, author of Our Village, was born, and at the bottom of the street there is an old medieval bridge. Alresford church is 19^th-century, in Perpendicular style, and contains two Anglo-Saxon roods. The gravestones include some to Napoleonic prisoners of war.

Old Alresford is smaller, a pleasant village with a stream running through the green. The church, on the way to New Alresford, was rebuilt in the 18^th century. and transepts added in the 19^th.

Nearby cities: Winchester

Nearby towns: Alton, Basingstoke

Nearby villags: Abbotstone, Bramdean, Cheriton, Four Marks, Ichen Stoke, Northington

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