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Cathedral city and administrative
headquarters of Hampshire, on the river
Itchen; population (1994) 93,000. Tourism is
important, and there is also light industry.
Originally a Roman town, Winchester was the
capital of Wessex. Winchester Cathedral is
the longest medieval church in Europe and was
remodelled from Norman-Romanesque to
Perpendicular Gothic under the patronage of
William of Wykeham (founder of Winchester
College 1382), who is buried there, as are
Saxon kings, St Swithun, and the writers
Izaac Walton and Jane Austen.