St Leonards Church & Rockborne Roman Villa
| The Parish Church ot Whitsbury stands on the hill on the East side of the village, in its well-tended churchyard, in which are some magnificent trees. It is a beautiful spot with lovely views, particularly to the South West. Saint Leonard was the saint of prisoners, and his story is told just inside the entrance to the Church.There is no doubt that there has been a Church, or Chapel, in Whitsbury since the 12th Century, but there appears to be little information about the building until early in the 18th Century, when Thomas Durnford, the Incumbent, repaired it at his own expense. It was restored in the early 19th Century |
Rockbourne Roman Villa and Museum is a Roman courtyard villa excavated and put on public display in the village of Rockbourne in the English county of Hampshire, England.
The villa was discovered in 1942 by the ferret of a local farmer and excavated by A. T. Morley Hewitt over the next thirty years.
The main structure was a large residence surrounding a courtyard, including luxurious Roman mosaics and bath suites. There were also farm buildings and workshops since it sat at the centre of large farming estate. Its origins lie in the Iron Age and it was occupied until the 5th century.
Much of the villa is on public display and there is a site museum, with excavated artefacts, tracing the villa’s history.
