Romsey is a market town in Hampshire with pretty medieval streets and a large Abbey, which was rebuilt in the 12th century, having replaced an earlier Anglo-Saxon building, and is dedicated to St Mary and St Ethelflaeda. The town is the location of Broadlands House, the country home of the Palmerston family, of whom Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount was Prime Minister of the UK twice, from 1855 to 1858 and then from 1859 to 1865. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip spent their honeymoon there. There is a statue in his honour in the centre of the town. The Waterstones is located in the main shopping road through the centre of the town. I came across a website about Lost Pubs, which states that the building was a hostelry called the Queens [sic] Head which closed in the 1860s.


Romsey Abbey
Pretty Romsey
