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St. Catherine's Hill is a beautiful place to visit, especially in the summer. There are two walks up to the top, one easier than the other, but once at the top of the steps the view across Winchester city is stunning. Especially at sundown, where the mists shroud the low-lands of the valley. Beneath St. Catherine's is the Itchen navigation.


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Location, Area, Boundaries, Landform and Setting. St Catherine's Hill is an Iron Age site covering 9.3 hectares and is an oval shape. This site was defended with a line of bank and ditch, which followed the hill's contours. After the 1st century BC the Hill was unoccupied until the 12th century AD. At this time, the Hill was the location for St.


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See all things to do. St Catherine's Hill. 4.5. 132 reviews. #8 of 68 things to do in Winchester. Nature & Wildlife Areas. Open now. 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM.


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St Catherine's Hill Winchester Walk. This 47 hectares nature reserve offers the whole family stunning views, historic interest and grazing animals. Walking on the trail you could see anything from butterflies in wildflowers to cattle and sheep throughout the whole year. Close to the South Downs, the River Itchen flows at the bottom and is a.


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A four-mile walk from the centre of Winchester to the summit of St Catherine's Hill


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Length: 9.5 km / 5.9 miles. Time: 2 hours 5 minutes at a swift pace + breaks. Difficulty: Moderate - 152 m total ascent, path to St Catherine's Hill from Garnier Rd car park is steep and can be slippery. Variation : To avoid some ascents and descents, stay on the western side of the M3 and take the stairs between St Catherines Hill and.


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St. Catherine's Hill is a chalk downland hill and 43-hectare (110-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the outskirts of Winchester in Hampshire, England.It is owned by Winchester College but open to the public. It is managed by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, and topped by an Iron Age hillfort, a scheduled monument.In the Black Death, plague pits were dug in the.


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St Catherine's Hill Winchester. 1 miles (1.5 km) Climb this small hill in Winchester for fine views over the town, the River Itchen and the surrounding countryside of the South Downs. It's a very pretty area with the chalk downland covered in wild flowers including bird's-foot trefoil, salad burnet, dropwort and several types of orchid.


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St Catherine's Hill, Winchester. by Paul Nettle ~ St Catherine's Hill was a centre of human settlement around 3000 years ago, long before the founding of Winchester. An iron-age fort was constructed here in the 3rd century BC, and a Celtic oppidum within it. However, some time around 100 BCE it was occupied by an invading tribe from the…


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About the reserve. A dramatic 220ft climb up St Catherine's Hill's wooden stairs reveals showstopping views of Winchester city, as well as the Itchen Valley floodplains and the downland it nestles in. At the summit are the earthworks of an Iron Age fort, buried ruins of the Norman chapel that gives the site its name, and a copse of beech trees.


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It now boasts a vivid picture of its Roman and medieval past but country doctor cum field archaeologist J P Williams-Freeman, writing in 1915, just couldn't wait to get to 'St Catharine's Hill (sic), the glory of Winchester…one of the largest and most perfect of the simple early forts', and to his mind the city's prehistoric ancestor.


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Time: 40 mins Distance: 1.8 km Terrain: Riverside path, steps, steep ascent and descent Pushchair: No Dogs: Under close control Refreshments: The Handlebar Café Toilets: Beside the cafe Parking: Small, free car park off Garnier Road beside the café (Postcode: SO23 9PA - W3W: enclosing/shot/unstable) If this is full, you could try the park and ride just up the road.


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SU 483 280. This is a great short walk with views out across the Itchen and Winchester. St Catherine's hill is managed by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust, as it supports a number of rare flower and butterfly species - although as we went in November neither was visible; instead we got a very inquisitive cow! The route is short but steep.


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About. St Cath's Hill is a 58 hectare flower-rich chalk grassland nature reserve carefully managed by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.


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This is another video in my series " Walks in Hampshire" accompanied by my Whippet (Logan). In this episode, I visit St Catherine's Hill at Winchester and ex.