Romsey occurs as little market town, in the county of Hampshire in the UK. These are placed Iv miles (6 km) north-west of the city of Southampton and 11 miles (Eighteen kilometer) south-sou'west of Winchester. It occupies an region of just about Iv.93 square kilometer, & is at home to the humans of good on top 13,000 people. These are placed on the banks of the River Test; a river noted for trout fishing. Romsey is one of a chief towns in the Test Valley Borough.

Romsey's MP is Sandra Gidley of the Liberal Democrats, who contested the seat withwithin a by-election in 2000 after the dying of the Conservative Michael Colvin, who died by using his married woman inside the home fire. Sandra Gidley retained a seat a charted month in the 2001 General Election and again in the 2005 General Election.

Romsey is twinned with Paimpol in Brittany, France and Battenberg, Germany.

History
Arms of Romsey Town Council Middle Ages to The Civil War

A title Romsey is believed to use at times originated from either a term ''Rum's Eg'', meaning "Rum's area surrounded by marsh".

What was to be Romsey Abbey was founded in 907 AD. Nuns, led by Elflaeda girl of King Edward A Elder, boy of King Alfred A Awesome, founded the community - at his counsel - around what was so the little village. Late, King Edgar refounded a nunnery, circa 960 AD, as a Benedictine house under the rule of St. Ethelflaeda whose acts of sanctitude involved a intonation of psalms whilst standing naked in the freezing fluids of the River Test!

A village swelled alongside a religious community it provided by owning local garden truck merely to suffer at a paws of Viking raiders in 993 AD. A village was sacked & a original church burnt down however each recovered & a abbey was rebuilt around stone inside circa 1000 AD. a abbey & a religious community flourished as a seat of learning - especially for the babies of the nobility - such that a market was before long established outside the abbey gates. Inside Norman times a material, just released stone abbey was built (between circa 1120 and 1140 AD) on the site of the original Saxon church and this dominates a town to this day. By 1240 AD 100 nuns were living in the nunnery.

King Henry I granted the town its foremost charter providing the town using certainside rights & allowing the market to become held both Sunday & a fair for little joe years in Could each season. Late in the 13th century, King Henry III allowed the town to hang on to even more, an extra fair within October.

A town appears to owe its continued incubation in a period of the middle ages to a remunerative woolen industry. Wool was brought to the town in which is was woven and so fulled - that is pounded by having wooden hammers when existence washed. In existence dyed it was taken to nearby Southampton from where it was exported.

Romsey continued to develop & prosper until plague, in the shape of the Black Death, struck the town around 1348-9. These are thought that up to half of a people of the town - which numbered just about 1,000 - died following & the total of nuns roughshod when sale when Xix. This & so affected a locality that a overall prosperity of the abbey never recovered and it was eventually suppressed by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539.

Were it non for a fact that the abbey got turn into "dual use" & contained inside it the church dedicated to St Lawrence used solely per townsfolk, there may be little doubt that a abbey buildings would develop been demolished prefer then numerous more religious communities at a instance. A town purchased a abbey from either the Crown for £10Inside 1544 and, somewhat ironically, then demolished that division placed aside when a church of St Lawrence that got ensured its survival in the number one place.

Per mid-16th century Romsey's people was just about 1,500 by using its woolen & tanning industries fuelling its incubation. Inside 1607 the town was granted the charter making it a borough.

When you took a English Civil War the town was occupied by the Royalist forces during late 1643 & following the encounter between the two and Parliamentary or Roundhead troops the previous fled. A town was plundered per victorious soldiers world health organization retained it for barely a year prior to a Royalists returned & plundered it themselves towards a prevent of 1644. It remained around control of the borough until January 1645.

The 18th and 19th Centuries

A town's woolen industry survived across until a middle of the 18th century by which time it was unable to compete by using a convenient growing & real industry of the northward of England. Yet fresh enterprises before long filled a gap by owning brewing, papermaking and sackmaking - all reliant upon a abundant waters of the Line 1 text, expanding quickly.

By 1794 Romsey was connected to Redbridge - at the mouth of the Flow of any stream Trial - & Andover, by canal and its industry continued to grow such that a number one census of 1801 recorded its people at 4,274 - at a instance once the population of Southampton was merely 8,000.

It was by any measure the reasonably big town per standards of the instance however its expansion did non prove my point through the 19th century - even though a railway arrived in 1847. Within 1851 its population was 5,654 & this dwindled to 5,597 per instance of the 1901 census.

In a time period of this period the town was personal to Lord Palmerston, the 19th century British Prime Minister who was born and lived at Broadlands, a big united states estate on the fringe of the town. a statue of Palmerston however sub the Market Place outside the Town Hall.

Broadlands afterwards became a page of Lord Mountbatten of Burma, known locally as Lord Louis world health organization, getting been murdered withinside the terrorist bomb explosion in Ireland on 27 August 1979, was buried in Romsey Abbey, the local parish church. He was given his Earldom within 1947, and was at a equivalent instance given a lesser title "Baron Romsey, of Romsey in the County of Southampton".

When Lord Mountbatten of Burma dying, his titles passed to his older girl, Lady Brabourne, who thus became Lady Mountbatten of Burma. Her firstborn boy is currently styled per courtesy title "Lord Romsey".

It was at a Broadlands estate where The Prince and Princess of Wales spent the number 1 nighttime of their honeymoon fallowing their marriage.

Miscellaneous
King John's Home, the hunting lodge utilized by King John of England whilst hunting in the New Woods.

A body of King William II "Rufus" was carried through Bell Street in Romsey on its way to Winchester, after he has been killed whilst hunting in the New Forest.

A town's burial ground contains the Japanese World War II artillery gun, one of a pair captured per British & brought back to Romsey by Lord Mountbatten of Burma. 1 was donated to a town by Lord Mountbatten & the more was retained in the evidence of his united states estate, Broadlands.

a town contains a playing pool, the Romsey Rapids.