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" Andover and its Neighbourhood" 



at Andover, may be understood better by the aid of the map. The 

 road from Silchester goes by Tadley to Baughurst, and leaviug 

 Woolverton a quarter of a mile to the north, ascends the chalk hills by 

 Hannington Church, passes Freemantle Park, and runs to the south 

 of Litchfield, then passes Egbury, probably a mansio, goes by St. 

 Mary Bourne to Finkley, runs between Andover and Charlton, 

 then through the 100 acres corner, through Monxton, Thruxton, 

 and Amport, between Grateley and Quarley, to Old Sarum. The 

 Roman road from Cirencester to Winchester crosses the Port Way 

 at Eastanton, near Andover, after passing Tangley (near which is a 

 mansio), and from thence it runs over the downs, crossing Harewood 

 Forest, where the road is just as the Romans left it ; it then crosses the 

 Test at a place called Cold Harbour, and goes thence to Winchester. 

 This road is in some places two or three feet above the surface. 



In 1867 the Rev. E. Kell and Mr. Charles Lockhart examined a 

 field at Andover Down Farm, called Castle Field, and on which had 

 been frequently found fragments of Roman pottery. By means of 

 a long iron rod they found the walls of a Roman villa, which, on 

 further investigation proved to be of oblong form, 65ft. in length, 

 and 41ft. in breadth, with a portico on its western side. The roof 

 had been supported by six or eight massive pillars, the vestiges of 

 six of which remained. Many roofing tiles were found in good 

 preservation. Two fire-places were discovered There was no hypo- 

 caust, nor bath, nor any portion of a tesselated pavement. Various 

 coins were found. Stukeley and others have stated that Andover 

 was a Roman station, and some foundation for this opinion is found 

 in the discovery, in our town, of coins of Tetricus, senior and junior, 

 and of Victorinus. 



We have no Anglo-Saxon remains in or about Andover, though 

 we have traces of their settlements in words such as Enham, 

 Thruxton, and Redenham. Nevertheless, Andover was not an un- 

 important place in Anglo-Saxon times. We read in the Chronicle 

 that in the year 994 Anlaf and Sweyn came to London on the 

 Nativity of S. Mary, with ninety- four ships, and they then continued 

 fighting stoutly against the Burgh, and would have set fire to it. 

 " The Holy Mother of God," continues the Chronicle, " delivered the 



