10 Andover Museum Andover

St Mary’s Church Mary’s St 9

Winchester Street Winchester

Sundial

Chantry Street and Marlborough Street Marlborough and Street Chantry 8

London Street London

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The Norman Arch Norman The 7

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The Angel Inn Angel The 6

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Time Ring Time 5

George Yard George

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Old Town Gaol Town Old

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Union Street Union

River Anton River

Time Ring Time

White Hart Hotel Hart White

London Street London 3

Kings Yard Kings

Church Close Church 2

Bridge Street Bridge 2

Black Swan Yard Swan Black

Upper High Street High Upper

Guildhall

War Memorial War

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Isle of Portland of Isle

St. Mary’s Church Mary’s St. Norman Arch Norman The Globe Inn Globe The

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Newport Dorchester

Ryde Bournemouth

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Lymington

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Ringwood

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Glastonbury

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Warminster

Farnham

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that story and which continue to evolve in today’s changing world. changing today’s in evolve to continue which and story that

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Basingstoke

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Andover has a long and fascinating history. This heritage trail highlights highlights trail heritage This history. fascinating and long a has Andover

Bracknell Newbury

Hungerford

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Bristol M4

Chippenham

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Andover’s archaeological finds date back to at least the Iron Age but it was the Celts who gave the town its name – ‘afon’ meaning river and ‘dwfr’, water. This changed over time into defer, dever, and dover. Andover Andover was first settled on the higher ground near to where St Mary’s Heritage Church stands, when the wide marshy River Anton was forded by the Harrow Way, which ran from Kent, through north Hampshire and via Stonehenge to Cornwall. Trail

Later the Icknield Way and Portway met at Andover and carried the Roman Legions as they marched across their conquered land. In Georgian times Andover boomed from the London-Exeter turnpike trade. Later, Andover lay on the main railway line from London to Exeter. Communication still plays a vital role in Andover’s commercial life today with the A303 and A34 running close-by.

Andover’s market town legacy endures: it will always be a place to meet and to do business.

This leaflet is accompanied by an audio trail which can be picked up using a smart phone by scanning the Andover Heritage Trail QR Code.

For further information about the Andover Heritage Trail and the trail stops, please visit our website: Re-live the www.testvalley.gov.uk/andoverheritagetrail fascinating history of

For further information on the history of Andover, visit: Andover

Andover History and Archaeology Society: www.andover-history.org.uk

Andover Museum: www.hants.gov.uk/museum/andover-museum.htm

Museum of the Iron Age: www.hants.gov.uk/museum-of-the-ironage

While every care has been taken to ensure the information contained in this publication is accurate it is not always possible to publish information on which every historian or expert agrees. Many towns have a London Street. to the Admiralty in 1805. A plaque re-build in the 15th century, before more 1. Town Mills Andover’s traces the main London to commemorating the route can be found on sophisticated brickwork came into use. Our trail begins Exeter turnpike road. It became superseded Andover Guildhall. at the Town Mills by the Andover by-pass in 1968. Take a short walk into Marlborough Street, where farmers sometimes known as Church Hill, and brought their At the end on your 5. Time Ring admire the almshouses on the right which wheat to be left look up to see a The Andover were founded in 1686. At the foot of the ground into flour. sundial on a clock Time Ring hill is an 18th century house which, until The Domesday face on the old commemorates recently, was used by Anton Laundry. The Book listed six bank building. Made Andover’s varied yard behind was once a tannery for the mills in Andover, in 1846, it shows history. This town’s leather industry. all lying on the River Anton. The main time in the form of mosaic and granite circle contains 12 trade of the Town Mills was the milling a timetable used sections each depicting a particular of wheat and fulling of woollen cloths by the coaching period, from the Romans up to the 9. St Mary’s Church produced by weavers in the town. After fraternity and shows Andover time - six Victorian times. In 1840, Pigot’s this process, the cloths were hung out to minutes behind London time. When the Hampshire described dry on the tenter frames or racks. Rack railways arrived in 1856 Andover time was Andover as Close is the only surviving road name standardised on London time. The Latin 6. The Angel Inn “handsome, thriving, associated with this trade. motto says “Look to the end”. Reaching the Angel Inn well-built, populous”, at the top of the High with the church “an The present mill dates from 1764 and was Street you stand at ancient edifice”. still grinding flour until the 1960s. Today it the centre of medieval It certainly had a is a popular pub Andover. Here the route Norman tower and and you can see from the West Country nave but the church was considered too a replica of the The building which houses the sundial going towards London small for the congregation. mill-wheel inside. was originally Heath’s Bank (1790). The met the route from the Heath family also owned a brewery which south going towards It was also pronounced unsafe and in need stood opposite and occupied Savoy Newbury. of demolition. The benefactor, Dr William 2. Bridge Street Chambers. Opposite stood Heath House, Stanley Goddard, a former headmaster of Look back past which was demolished to make way for The Angel Inn was, for Winchester College, was determined to the Wesleyan the Savoy Cinema which, in turn, became many years, the largest pay for a replacement. However “unsafe” it Methodist a nightclub called Club at Life. In the 19th and most prominent inn. was it nevertheless resisted all attempts at Church (built century there were at least 10 pubs in It was rebuilt after the great fire in 1435 demolition and the engineers had to resort in 1906) to the London and Bridge streets. and remains one of the most important to dynamite to get rid of it! Viking artwork timber frame buildings in Hampshire. It in the river. In the 10th century, the used to be called College Inn because it The present St Mary’s Church, completed Vikings sailed their longboats up as far as 4. High Street was owned by Winchester College and the between 1844 and 1846, is an impressive Longstock on the River Test and then laid carpenter who constructed its impressive building of knapped flint and Caen Stone waste to the surrounding countryside. In frame also built Eton College. The Angel from France which was delivered to AD 994 the Viking leader Olaf Tryggvason Inn has seen some illustrious visitors Andover via the Redbridge Canal. Look was confirmed as a Christian in St Mary’s including King John, Edward I, Edward II, inside if the church is open - the interior is Church by Bishop Alphege. King Ethelred Henry VII, Catherine of Aragon and James sensational. “the Unready” acted as Olaf’s sponsor In Georgian times Andover was one of II, fleeing from William of Orange. and on payment of 16,000 pounds in the most important coaching towns in silver coins Olaf swore never to return to southern England. Coaches travelled 10. Andover Museum Britain. He returned to Norway where he all over the country for more than two 7. The Norman Arch The Andover Museum became the king and converted citizens centuries until railways changed our lives The Norman buildings were once to Christianity and founded the city of forever. The Regency façade of The Star Arch is the only home to Andover Trondheim. and Garter conceals an older interior and surviving section Grammar School, a a wilder history. Charles I rested here of the Andover foundation set up in The Bridge bookshop/café, on the in 1644 after the Battle of Andover and Church, built after 1571. The building southern side of Bridge Street, was once George III often broke his journey down a fire in 1141. The where you enter the The Katherine Wheel inn, a busy coaching to his favourite resort at Weymouth by walkway through museum was once inn whose landlord was also the town staying overnight. Other visitors included the arch and up the the headmaster’s gaoler. From 1899 to the 1960s it housed Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton and the steps leads to the house and dates from the Town Library. Its clock originally kept famous General Tom Thumb from Barnum town’s Garden of 1741. Lord Denning, time on the tollhouse at the start of the and Bailey Circus. Remembrance. Here there is a cenotaph arguably the greatest turnpike road to Salisbury. memorial to the local men killed in the judge of the 20th century, went to Andover Several of the many High Street coaching First World War. It is unusual because it Grammar School. Some of his rulings You can also see the White Hart Hotel inns survive including The Globe which bears the dates 1914-20, a reminder of contributed to major changes in society. which has remained a hostelry since has retained its name from at least 1742. the British troops’ actions in Russia. The 1636 and was one of many coaching inns wall behind the cenotaph remembers Step into the Museum of the Iron Age servicing the London turnpike. Dominating the Georgian High Street those who died in the Second World War. which tells the story of Danebury Hillfort. is Andover Guildhall, a Grade II listed Professor Barry Cunliffe excavated the The area immediately south of Bridge building, built in 1825 and the third of its hillfort between 1969 and 1988 and is 8. Chantry Street and Marlborough Street Street, now the site of Asda and kind to stand on the same site. Records one of the best-studied sites of the British Sainsburys, was once a thriving industrial exist in 1470 of a Guildhall on two levels. Iron Age. area with the terminus of the Andover- By 1583 there was a new ‘towne house’ Redbridge Canal and, following its or Guildhall but during the Civil War it was Your trail ends here though there closure, the Andover to Southampton damaged by troops and by 1725 needed is always more to see – the railway line. The railway line closed in rebuilding. A new Guildhall was built with former Andover Union Workhouse 1964 as part of the Beeching plan, but has the ground floor open for shops and market At the top of the High Street are Chantry for example and Andover Church now re-emerged as part of the beautiful 44 stalls and the Upper Guildhall for the town’s Street and Marlborough Street. This is of England School in East mile Test Way walk. government. Today the upper floor retains the oldest part of the town. At the junction Street, which is one of the oldest its civic role but the ground floor is back in stands the 16th century Chantry Cottage, Victorian schools in the county. commercial use as a restaurant. brought from its original site in Chantry You will have seen that buildings 3. London Street Street and re-erected in its entirety. and places are constantly Before making your way up the lovely Andover lies on the Trafalgar Way, the evolving with new uses and new Georgian High Street, take a look at 271 mile route used by express post- Take a look into Chantry Street at two trends but Andover will always London Street. chaise to deliver the momentous news of of the oldest houses in Andover. Their remain a place to meet and to do Vice Admiral Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar “jettied” style was common after the business.