Abbots Worthy

Abbots Worthy
Hampshire
The old mill in Abbots Worthy
Location
Grid reference:	SU497326
Location:	51°5’26"N, 1°17’22"W
Data
Post town:	Winchester
Postcode:	SO21
Dialling code:	01962
Local Government
Council:	Winchester
Parliamentary constituency:	Winchester

Abbots Worthy is a small village in the midst of Hampshire, at the eastern edge of Kings Worthy and nestled up against the streams and meadows of the River Itchen to the south (and less poetically, the M3 motorway beyond them). A number of footbridges cross the streams and backwaters here into the fields and copses.

It is amongst a cluster of neighbouring villages known as 'The Worthys', which are:

• Abbots Worthy
• Headbourne Worthy
• Kings Worthy
• Martyr Worthy

The village is on the A33 road, which follows the course of a Roman road, two miles north of Winchester, and on the B3047 which follows the Itchen from New Alresford down to the A33.

In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Abbotts Worthy as:

ABBOTSWORTHY, a tything in the parish of Kings worthy, 2 miles NNE of Winchester, Hants.

The Itchen Way, which is a 32 mile long-distance footpath, passes through the village.

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