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  1. Cathedral city and administrative
  2. headquarters of Hampshire, on the river
  3. Itchen; population (1994) 93,000. Tourism is
  4. important, and there is also light industry.
  5. Originally a Roman town, Winchester was the
  6. capital of Wessex. Winchester Cathedral is
  7. the longest medieval church in Europe and was
  8. remodelled from Norman-Romanesque to
  9. Perpendicular Gothic under the patronage of
  10. William of Wykeham (founder of Winchester
  11. College 1382), who is buried there, as are
  12. Saxon kings, St Swithun, and the writers
  13. Izaac Walton and Jane Austen.
  14.