WINCHESTER

(1) (51° 3’ N., 1° 19’ W.), town, Hants, England; bp.’s see; has large cathedral, dating in part from XI. cent.; there are remains of Wolvesey Castle and of an old royal castle, both of which were ruined during the Civil War of Charles I.’s reign, and of Hyde Abbey, the burial-place of King Alfred. In the neighborhood is the hospital of St. Cro (XII. cent.). W. was capital of England in Saxon and Norman times, and parliaments were held here at vargous dates in the XIII., XIV., and XV. cent’s; it was much damaged by Round heads in Civil War. Pop. (1921) 23,791. _ ‘WINCHESTER, a city of Kentucky, in Clark Co., of which it is the county seat. It is on the Louisville and Nashville, the Chesapeake and Ohio, _and other railroads. Winchester is within the famous blue gra region. Its principal industries are agriculture and stock raising. It is the seat of the Ken- ¢tucky Wesley an College, Winchester Female College, and the Cooper Female institute. Pop. (1920) 7,866.