I’ve been reading about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, quite a story really, and fascinating stuff. Of course the problem I have is that this wonderfully interesting history has absolutely nothing to do with Gosport. Indeed Gosport won’t exist as a place for another couple of hundred years or so, even if only a a manor, created by the Bishop of Winchester.
In the meantime, whilst Henry and Eleanor are rolling about in hay, what will become Gosport is a bleak windswept marshland, Although two areas of which will become (eventually) suburbs of Gosport, namely Rowner and Alverstoke, are doing quite nicely.
But nothing is happening there as far as I can tell.
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