24 hours in… WINCHESTER
The English Romantic poet John Keats spent a few months in Winchester in 1819, leading him to pen his famous ode, To Autumn. He may have been simply escaping the din of his landlady’s daughter learning the violin, yet his Sunday strolls along the River Itchen inspired him to celebrate the city’s “seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness”.
Last year was the 200th anniversary of that poem and Visit Winchester created a self-guided, two-mile walking tour, a map of which can be downloaded from their website. From the cathedral to
