Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Southampton, United Kingdom

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 7 sights
Distance 1.6 km
Ascend 14 m
Descend 22 m

Explore Southampton in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Southampton

Sight 1: Church of Holyrood

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Holyrood Church was one of the original five churches serving the old walled town of Southampton, England. Built in 1320, the church was destroyed by enemy bombing during the blitz in November 1940. In 1957 the shell of the church was dedicated as a memorial to the sailors of the Merchant Navy. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Wikipedia: Holyrood Church (EN)

128 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: St Michael's Church

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St. Michael the Archangel Church is the oldest building still in use in the city of Southampton, England, founded in 1070. It is the only church still active of the five originally in the medieval walled town. The church is a Grade I Listed building.

Wikipedia: St Michael's Church, Southampton (EN)

85 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Tudor House Museum

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Tudor House MuseumPeter Trimming from Croydon, England / CC BY 2.0

Tudor House and Garden is a historic building, museum, tourist attraction, and Grade I listed building in Southampton, England. Established as Southampton's first museum in 1912, the house was closed for nine years between 2002 and 2011 during an extensive renovation.

Wikipedia: Tudor House and Garden (EN), Website

65 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: St Joseph's Catholic Church

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St Joseph's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Southampton, Hampshire. It is situated on Bugle Street, in the centre of the city, north of Town Quay. The church chancel was designed by Augustus Pugin and built in 1843. It was the first Catholic church founded in Southampton after the Reformation. It was the pro-cathedral of the Diocese of Portsmouth in 1882. It is a Grade II listed building.

Wikipedia: St Joseph's Church, Southampton (EN)

108 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Medieval Merchants House

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The Medieval Merchant's House is a restored late-13th-century building in Southampton, Hampshire, England. Built in about 1290 by John Fortin, a prosperous merchant, the house survived many centuries of domestic and commercial use largely intact. German bomb damage in 1940 revealed the medieval interior of the house, and in the 1980s it was restored to resemble its initial appearance and placed in the care of English Heritage, to be run as a tourist attraction. The house is built to a medieval right-angle, narrow plan design, with an undercroft to store wine at a constant temperature, and a first-storey bedchamber that projects out into the street to add additional space. The building is architecturally significant because, as historian Glyn Coppack highlights, it is "the only building of its type to survive substantially as first built"; it is a Grade I listed building and scheduled monument.

Wikipedia: Medieval Merchant's House (EN), Website

249 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Canute's Palace

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Canute's Palace in Southampton, England, is the name given to the ruins of a Norman merchant's house dating from the late twelfth century. Despite its name, the building has no connection with Canute the Great, nor was it a palace.

Wikipedia: Canute's Palace (EN)

983 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 7: Solent Sky

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Solent Sky

Solent Sky is an aviation museum in Southampton, England.

Wikipedia: Solent Sky (EN), Website

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