The location of this picture is in the Alver Valley Nature Reserve. It’s next to a place delightfully named The Apple Dumpling Bridge. It’s a medieval site. Just a few yards behind me is the site of the Rowner Motte & Bailey.
A Motte and Bailey is a small castle like structure usually on a mound, with a palisade surrounding a small area. The Motte is the castle and the Bailey is the protected area. The mound is still there, and it is registered as a monument, but you would never know it.
IS there a particular reason I’m writing about this? The site is one of the oldest locations in the area, probably constructed sometime in the 11th or 12th century.
Whilst the town of Gosport didn’t become anything more than a village until the 1500’s the Manor of Gosport was created by The Bishop of Winchester in 942. Alverstoke and Rowner are both mentionned in the Domesday Book, not Gosport though.
I want a list, a list of the historic sites in the area.
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