Winchester Pub Crawl

About this route

History & Origins The Early Days • Winchester was a major Anglo-Saxon capital and its alley-pub network grew up serving cathedral pilgrims, tannery workers along the river, and university scholars from the 1382 founding of Winchester College • Several pubs on this route date to the 16th and 17th centuries, with the The Wykeham Arms near the cathedral operating on its current site for over 600 years • The Friary area, medieval Franciscan grounds, became the city's earliest