Romsey
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Romsey is a small market in the English county of Hampshire. The town is located 13 kilometers northwest of Southampton and 18 kilometers south-west of Winchester.
Romsey is 4.93 square kilometers and has about 13,000 inhabitants, situated on the river test, which is known as trout anglers, and is one of the main towns of the Test Valley. The center is dominated by a Norman abbey of Romsey Abbey.
History
It is believed that the name derives from a word Romsey Rum 's Eg and " Rum 's surrounded by marshy area " where " Rum " is regarded as an abbreviation of a proper name, for example " Rūmwald ".
Romsey Abbey
Today the place belonged to the abbey was built 1120-1140 by the Normans at the point where previously stood the former church of the Anglo-Saxons. Around 1240 lived 100 nuns in the convent.
As a result of the plague of 1348/49 the number of nuns fell to 19; Abbey did not recover from the disease, she was finally resolved in 1539 by King Henry VIII. However, the monastery buildings were spared from destruction, because to them belonged to the parish church. The municipality acquired the monastery in 1544 for £ 100 from the crown.
Middle Ages
King Henry I gave the place Romsey, which originated around its abbey, its first charter by which a Sunday market and a four -day fair was granted in May. In the 13th century King Henry III allowed. an additional show in October. The growth of the place was funded by the wool industry, which supplied their products to Southampton.
The development Romseys broke off from the plague 1348/49, about half of the population killed around 500 people.
Middle of the 16th century lived in Romsey again about 1500 people. In 1607 the place was appointed Borough.
Modern Times
The Wollindustire in Romsey survived until the middle of the 18th century, but then had to give the competition from the North of England. The gaps were filled by, for example, breweries and paper manufactories - industries that test their living from the water of the river.
End of the 18th century Romsey was connected by a channel with Redbridge at the mouth of the test, today a district of Southampton, and Andover. In the census of 1801 Romsey had 4274 inhabitants - a significant number compared to Southampton, which was the same in 8000. Although Romsey in 1847 connected to the railway network, the growth decelerated 1851 the town had 5654 inhabitants in 1901 even only 5597th
Twinning
Romsey maintains partnerships with cities
Personalities
Outside the town is Broadlands, a large country house, where the Prime Minister Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston was born and later lived. The estate later passed into the possession of Lord Mountbatten of Burma, who was buried after his assassination in Romsey Abbey. Mountbatten bore the title of " Baron Romsey, of Romsey in the County of Southampton ".
William Petty (1623-1687), economist, scientist and philosopher, was born in Romsey.