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Discover Winchester and Southampton medieval cities on a private tour

Southampton, England

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6 hours (approx.)
Hotel pickup offered
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Offered in: English

Overview

A perfect cathedral city on the side of the hilly South Downs National Park, Winchester is England's ancient capital and old residence of King Alfred the Great. The city combines the freshness of the neighboring countryside with the best of city life. Explore picturesque Winchester and be guided through its medieval streets. But first, take a walking tour of medieval Southampton.

Meet your guide at the Cruise Port or at your hotel in Southampton and start with a walking tour of the city.
Walk through the streets of Southampton, stopping at certain buildings of interest.
Drive to Winchester about 25 minutes and start Upper Winchester walking tour.
After the tour, the guide will drive you back to Southampton Cruise Port or to your hotel.

What's Included

  • All fees and taxes
  • Pick up and drop off
  • Transportation by air-conditioned vehicle
  • Food and drinks (own expense)
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Bargate

The Bargate is a Grade I listed medieval gatehouse in the city centre of Southampton, England. Constructed in Norman times as part of the Southampton town walls, it was the main gateway to the city. The building is a scheduled monument, which has served as a temporary exhibition and event space for Southampton Solent University since 2012.
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15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Canute's Palace

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.
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20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

God's House Tower

God's House Tower is a late 13th century gatehouse into the old town of Southampton, England. It stands at the south-east corner of the town walls and permitted access to the town from the Platform and Town Quay. It is now an arts and heritage venue, and has previously served as the town gaol and housed the Museum of Archaeology. The building is Grade I listed and a scheduled ancient monument.
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15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Holyrood Church (Stop BE)

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.
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20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Medieval Merchant's House

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.
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15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Saint Mary's Church

St. Mary's Church, Southampton is a Church of England parish church and the largest church in the port city of Southampton on the south coast of England. This is the mother church to this former county town with its forerunners spanning back to the first Saxon settlements of the 7th century, including a major collegiate church of the European Middle Ages dedicated to the same patron saint.
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20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

SeaCity Museum

The SeaCity Museum is a museum in Southampton, England, which opened on 10 April 2012 to mark the centenary of RMS Titanic's departure from the city. It is housed within a part of the Grade II* listed civic center building which previously housed the magistrates' court and police station.
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20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Southampton City Art Gallery

The Southampton City Art Gallery is an art gallery in Southampton, southern England. It is located in the Civic Centre on Commercial Road. The gallery opened in 1939 with much of the initial funding from the gallery coming from two bequests one from Robert Chipperfield and another from Frederick William Smith. The gallery was damaged during World War II and repairing this damaged delayed its reopening until 1946.
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15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Southampton Town Walls

Southampton's town walls are a sequence of defensive structures built around the town in southern England. Although earlier Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlements around Southampton had been fortified with walls or ditches, the later walls originate with the move of the town to the current site in the 10th century.
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15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

St Joseph's Church

St Joseph's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Southampton, Hampshire. It is situated on Bugle Street, in the center 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.
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20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

St Michael's Church

St. Michael the Archangel Church is the oldest building still in use in the city of Southampton, England, having been founded in 1070, and is the only church still active of the five originally in the medieval walled town. The church is a Grade I Listed building.
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20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Titanic Engineer Officers Memorial

The Titanic Engineers' Memorial is a memorial in East Park, Southampton, United Kingdom, to the engineers who died in the Titanic disaster on 15 April 1912. The bronze and granite memorial was originally unveiled by Sir Archibald Denny, president of the Institute of Marine Engineers on 22 April 1914. The event was attended by an estimated 100,000 Southampton residents.
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15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Tudor House and Garden

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. The house is located in Bugle Street, opposite St. Michael's Square, in Southampton's Old Town.
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20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Jane Austen's House

Jane Austen's House Museum is a small independent museum in the village of Chawton near Alton in Hampshire. It is a writer's house museum occupying the 17th-century house in which novelist Jane Austen spent the last eight years of her life. The museum has been a Grade I listed building since 1963.
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15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Hospital of St Cross

The Hospital of St Cross and Almshouse of Noble Poverty is a medieval almshouse in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It has been described as "England's oldest and most perfect almshouse". Most of the buildings and grounds are open to the public at certain times. It is a Grade I listed building.
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20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

The Great Hall

The original wooden Norman Winchester Castle dated from 1067. In the 12th century a tower fifty feet square with walls 14 feet thick was constructed and circular tower was built on the motte in the 13th century. In the 17th century, it was sold to a Royalist and after its capture in the Civil War it was slighted and almost all the stone removed for other buildings.
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30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Winchester Cathedral

Winchester Cathedral is a cathedral of the Church of England in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It is one of the largest cathedrals in Europe, with the greatest overall length of any Gothic cathedral. Dedicated to the Holy Trinity, Saint Peter, Saint Paul and, before the Reformation, Saint Swithun, it is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and centre of the Diocese of Winchester. The cathedral is a Grade I listed building.
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15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Winchester City Mill

The Winchester City Mill is a restored water mill situated on the River Itchen in the center of the ancient English city of Winchester. The mill is owned by the National Trust and is a Grade II* listed building.
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20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Wolvesey Castle

Wolvesey Castle, also known as the "Old Bishop's Palace", is a ruined castle in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It is located next to Winchester Cathedral.
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30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Operated by a business

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Q: What is the cancellation policy for the Discover Winchester and Southampton medieval cities on a private tour?

A: This tour is non-refundable and cannot be changed for any reason. If you cancel or ask for an amendment, the amount you paid will not be refunded. Read more Apr 2025

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This tour is non-refundable and cannot be changed for any reason. If you cancel or ask for an amendment, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

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