He firmly identifies Camelot with Winchester, an identification that remained popular over the centuries, though it was rejected by Malory's own editor, William Caxton, who preferred a Welsh location.

After leaving Winchester he joined the operational research section at RAF Bomber Command, where he remained for the rest of World War II.

Some urban centres, for example Canterbury, Cirencester, Wroxeter, Winchester and Gloucester, remained active during the 5th and 6th centuries, surrounded by large farming estates.

Though this was true of internal affairs, the Vikings remained a great threat, unsuccessfully storming Winchester and ravaging eastern Kent.

After a spell at a private school at Sunbury, he followed his father and two older brothers to Winchester College, where he remained for three years.

The choice of Malmesbury over the New Minster in Winchester indicated that the king remained an outsider to the West Saxon court.

By the year 803 Farnham had passed into the ownership of the Bishop of Winchester and the Manor of Farnham remained so ( apart from two short breaks ) for the next thousand years.

In 1660 the bishops of Winchester were restored to the adjoining Bishops Palace, which remained their residence until 1927.

Though the Winchester head remained in place, another one appeared at Jumièges ; he " must have clandestinely removed the head, or at least the greater part of it, and left his monks to venerate the empty or nearly empty capsa ".

These masterpieces of the Winchester style were the most elaborately decorated Anglo-Saxon manuscripts known to have reached Normandy, either before or after the Conquest, and influenced the much less-developed local style, though this remained very largely restricted to initials.

After glacial debris effectively rerouted the Merrimack north to its current location, all that remained of its original course through present day Winchester is the Aberjona River and the several ponds it feeds en route to the Mystic Lakes on Winchester's southern border.

Winchester was the first company to manufacture a civilian rifle chambered for the new smokeless propellants, and although delays prevented the. 30-30 cartridge from appearing on the shelves until 1895, it remained the first commercially available smokeless powder round for the North American consumer market.

Winchester lever action rifles remained the most popular in the US through WWI and the interwar period.

Another Browning design, the Winchester Model 1893 was the first successful pump-action shotgun design ; as strengthened in 1897 for smokeless-propellant shells, it remained in production until the mid 1950s.

The name " Winchester " remained with the ammunition making side of the company, and this branch continues to be profitable.

In the 15th century, John Fromond, the owner of this scattered estate, willed the lands to Winchester College, in whose hands the estate remained down to the 19th century.

B Co. remained on OBJ Winchester throughout the night.

He remained there for several years, acting as curate in one of the lowest districts, preparing his Manual of Prayers for the use of the Scholars of Winchester College ( first published in 1674 ), and composing hymns.

At the end of 1598, at the probable age of 22, Weelkes was appointed organist at Winchester College, where he remained for two or three years, receiving the salary of 13s 4d per quarter (£ 2 for three quarters ).

Some of the land remained empty, part of it forming the open grassed area situated between Burwell Drive and Winchester Avenue.

It is assumed that the Benedictional remained at Winchester after Æthelwold's death.

In 975 it was handed over by King Edgar to the monks at Winchester ; and remained in their hands until 1539.

On 4 April 2010, he was appointed manager of Winchester City of the Sydenhams Wessex Premier League although he remained in charge for only a few months, parting company with Winchester by mutual consent in September 2010.

It had been the capital of Wessex under Alfred the Great, and boasted the Winchester Round Table, an artifact constructed in the 13th century but widely believed to be the original by Malory's time.

Winchester would eventually develop into the effective capital of Wessex.

* Alfred makes Winchester his capital.

Winchester ( archaically known as Winton and Wintonceastre ) is a historic cathedral city and former capital city of England.

Domesday Book was originally preserved in the royal treasury at Winchester ( the Norman kings ' capital ).

This may refer to the statutes of the Charter of Winchester ( 1251 ), though it is sometimes considered to be a reference to the more equitable days of King Alfred the Great, when Winchester was the capital of England.

The town is midway between Winchester and London and, in 1138, Henry de Blois ( grandson of William the Conqueror and brother of King Stephen ) started building Farnham Castle to provide accommodation for the Bishop of Winchester in his frequent journeying between his cathedral and the capital.

The town has a recognised and documented history dating back to the Norman era, when a part of William's army marched up from Fareham Creek before continuing to the Saxon capital of England, Winchester.

These place the heart of Wessex, Hampshire, including its traditional capital, Winchester, in the separate South East region, as well as bisect the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

He has left his steward in charge of the kingdom and seems to have no intention of returning to his capital city of Winchester ( in southern England, the old capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex ).

Having an eye for opportunity, Winchester assembled venture capital together with other stockholders and acquired the S & W division, better known as the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company, in 1850.

He was also a power in the land ( Winchester being the old Saxon capital ), and regularly needed to be in London on royal or administrative state business.

William the Conqueror created his Nova Forest in 1079, a vast hunting area lying south and west of his capital at Winchester ; it stretched south to the coast at Barton on Sea and west to what is now Bournemouth.

The settled nature of the bishopric made Dorchester in a broad sense the de facto capital of Wessex, which was later to become the dominant kingdom in England ; eventually Winchester displaced it.

John decided to escape to the Saxon capital of Winchester, and so Louis had little resistance on his march to London.

In the Warlord novels, by English author Bernard Cornwell, based on the Arthurian legend, a secondary character named Melwas is mentioned many times, here as the king of the tribe of the Belgae, who inhabited the region roughly corresponding to modern Hampshire with its capital at Venta Belgarum ( modern Winchester ).

This dialect was spoken mostly in the south and west of England around the important monastery at Winchester, which was also the capital city of the English kings.

At that time, Winchester was the capital of England.

The programme ended with a question asking whether Winchester should again be the capital of England.

The ancient capital of Wessex, Winchester is a cathedral city with the arts and humanities-oriented University and an affluent population.