Morning Walk 6th April 2016

April 6, 2016, 9:45 a.m.

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Alresford - this will now be Peter's walk starting from the Alresford station car park at around 10.00am. 

Walking along Wayfarers Way, passing the watercress beds beside the River Arle, about 4.8 miles. Lunch probably in the Bell Hotel.

Alresford (pronounced Allsford) is a beautiful Georgian Town which for many centuries was a prosperous wool town. Old Alresford is mentioned in the Domesday Book but the present town of New Alresford did not come into existence much before 1200 at the time when the Great Weir was being built to create Old Alresford Pond as a fish pond for the Bishop's Palace at Bishop's Sutton and a reservoir for the mills along the Itchen. The colour-washed Georgian houses you see today rose from the ashes of great fires in the 17th Century but many retain their original 13th century cellars.  Thanks to arlesford.org for this information.

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