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For
all Winchester City Council news and information go directly to
their website, which can be found at www.winchester.gov.uk
Hampshire County Council can be found at www.hants.gov.uk
Winchester City Council's website also offers a fairly comprehensive
tourist information guide. The main tourism page can be found
here:
www.visitwinchester.co.uk
Test Valley Borough Council can be found at www.testvalley.gov.uk
Their main tourism page can be found at www.visit-testvalley.org.uk
Hampshire
County Council also have loads of leisue and tourist information
on their website:
www.hants.gov.uk/leisure
If you're after a spot of culture and/or entertainment
then we recommend the following:
The Tower Arts Centre - Winchester's finest multi-arts venue.
Everything from The Handsome Family to Long John Baldry, lots of
classes and a nice line in special events. A favourite with audience
and performer alike.
The Theatre Royal - after a long time dark, Nic and crew have
re-opened this 400 seat theatre with much success and fanfare. From
top line theatre to top line comedy, it's all here.
The
Railway Inn - live music most nights of the week, mainly local
bands but the odd 'name' is often thrown in for good measure. If
you want to see what the Winchester young music scene is about then
The Railway is the place.
The Screen - our only cinema, we used to have about twenty.
Winchester
Cathedral - Now that's what I call a building.
Winchester has plenty of festivals and events going on. Here are
some of them:
The Hat Fair - Britains longest running festival of street theatre.
Winchester's weekend of weekends.
www.hatfair.co.uk
The Annual Writers Conference
www.gmp.co.uk/writers/conference
The Winchester Festival
www.winchesterfestival.co.uk
Homelands - Rave On!
www.homelands.co.uk
Grange Park Opera
www.grangeparkopera.co.uk
Winchester International Early Music Festival
www.earlymusicnow.org.uk
Winchester Folk Festival
www.winchfolk.org.uk
The Chesil Theatre
www.chesiltheatre.org.uk
If you're travelling to, from or around Winchester,
the following may be useful:
Stagecoach
- our local bus comapny, complete with timetables etc. National
Express also have coaches going here, there and everywhere, their
website is http://www.nationalexpress.com/neh.cfm
South West
Trains - our local train company. If you already know where
you're going and just want to buy a train ticket online then The
Trainline is the place to go.
And if you really want to get out of the city limits, then Southampton
Airport Parkway is only minutes down the road. They have flights
everday to Dublin, Edinburgh, Jersey, Paris, Amsterdam and lots
of other great places.
www.flybe.com
Winchester's three main colleges are:
Peter Symonds College (Sixth Form)
Owens Road
Winchester
Tel: 01962 852764
www.psc.ac.uk/
University Of Winchester
Sparkford Road
Winchester
Tel: 01962 841515
www.winchester.ac.uk
Winchester
School of Art
Park Avenue
Winchester
Tel: 02380 596900
www.wsa.soton.ac.uk/
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