Photo: Christopher Hilton, CC BY-SA 2.0All 9 English Heritage places in Hampshire on a map, with what to see at each. Entry is free for members at most places; where an activity costs extra, the price is on it.
Hampshire places in colour and activities in orange, with Kent and Sussex and Surrey in grey so you can plan further afield. Tap a pin for details and directions.
Castles, abbeys and Roman sites, from staffed days out to free ruins you can wander any time.
Photo: Christopher Hilton, CC BY-SA 2.0The remains of a grand medieval residence of the Bishops of Winchester, including a three-storey tower and the great hall windows built by William of Wykeham. The old lodging range now houses Bishop's Waltham Museum.
Photo: Phil Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0A round artillery fort built by Henry VIII in 1539 to guard the sea passage to Southampton, standing at the tip of Calshot Spit with views across the Solent. Later used against smugglers and as an RAF seaplane base, it is owned by English Heritage and run by the neighbouring Calshot Activities Centre, whose shingle beaches are open to all.
A Palmerston fort built in the 1850s and 1860s to protect Portsmouth harbour, and largely unaltered. Visitors can see the keep, the parade ground, the gun ramps and the moated keep.
An artillery fortress built by Henry VIII at the seaward end of Hurst Spit to guard the narrow western entrance to the Solent, later strengthened from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second World War. Reaching it is part of the outing, by ferry from Keyhaven through the saltmarshes or on a 2-mile walk along the shingle.
Photo: Doug Lee, CC BY-SA 2.0Netley Abbey stands close to Southampton Water and is the most complete surviving Cistercian abbey in southern England. Almost all the walls of its 13th-century church still stand, with monastic buildings around them.
Portchester Castle began as a Roman fort on the Saxon Shore, built to defend the south-east coast, and it still keeps most of its Roman walls. Visitors can climb the 12th-century Norman keep for views across the Solent.
The walls and amphitheatre of Calleva Atrebatum, a Roman town near Silchester. The site is in open countryside and is free to visit in daylight hours.
Photo: August Schwerdfeger, CC BY 4.0Titchfield Abbey was founded in the 13th century for a community of Premonstratensian canons. After the Dissolution, Henry VIII gave it to the Earl of Southampton, and its grand turreted gatehouse survives from the Tudor mansion built inside it.
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0The ruins of the Bishops of Winchester's medieval palace, beside Winchester Cathedral. Much of the 12th-century palace of Bishop Henry of Blois survives, and in 1554 its East Hall was dressed for the wedding banquet of Queen Mary and Philip of Spain.
To Do in Hampshire is independent and not connected to English Heritage. Activities are checked against English Heritage's own event pages; for membership and opening details see english-heritage.org.uk.
