Welcome to limo hire in Hampshire. What Limo UK Ltd is one of the leading limo companies based in Hampshire covering all the local towns within Hampshire.
Are you looking for the best limo quote and latest limousines with a quality of service, look no further. Whatlimouk has over 10 years experience in the limousine and chauffeur industry with highly trained chauffeurs some of the best limo's in Hampshire.
We are happy to give excellent advice and quote's on luxury american stretched limousine hire in your local Hampshire town's. Need a quote now? if your calling from a land line you can call on Freephone: 0800 085 8387.
After a few brief questions such as the date, address's of your pick up and return point along with your venue destination and times also the amount of passengers travelling a member of our staff will then be able to instantly quote you happy our best price.
This can also be done via email at the address that follows or using our contact form for a quote at the top right of this page.
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History Of Royal Hampshire
(information provided by Wkipedia.org)
Some scholars believe there is evidence to show the traditional county boundaries of Hampshire may date back to the years of the original West Saxon settlement in c.519. It is likely that both Winchester and Silchester would have fallen to the West Saxons between the years 508 and 514. A later thrust up the Hampshire Avon towards Old Sarum in 519 appears to have been checked by the Britons at Charford. The historian Albany Major in Early Wars of Wessex makes the case that the borders of the traditional county of Hampshire probably match those of the first West Saxon kingdom established by Cerdic and his son. Evidence of this comes from the border between Hampshire and Berkshire which follows generally the line of the Roman road that ran east and west through Silchester, but it is deflected in the north in a rough semi-circle in such a way as to include the whole of the district around the town. He argues that the capture of Silchester, of which no record has been passed down to us, was not the work of Mercian Angles but of the West Saxons probably striking north from Winchester and possibly acting in concert with a separate force making its way up the Thames Valley towards Reading. Silchester was left desolate after its fall and it is most improbable that any regard would have been paid to its side of the border had the fixing of the county boundary been made at a later period.
Study of the borders between Hampshire and Wiltshire also seem to suggest the West Saxon's westward advance was checked by about 519AD. The area north of Charford This would corroborate the date given in the Annales Cambriae for the crucial British victory at the Battle of Mons Badonicus in 517AD which is believed to have stopped further Anglo-Saxon encroachments in south-west and midland Britain for at least a generation.
Hampshire was one of the first Saxon shires, recorded in 755 as Hamtunscir, but for two centuries represented the western end of Saxon England, as advances into Dorset and Somerset were fought off by the Britons. The name is derived from the port of Southampton which was known previously as simply "Hampton". After the Saxons advanced further west Hampshire became the centre of the Kingdom of Wessex, and many Saxon kings are buried at Winchester. A statue in Winchester celebrates the powerful King Alfred, who stabilised the region in the 9th century.
After the Norman Conquest the county was favoured by Norman kings who established the New Forest as a hunting forest. The county was recorded in the Domesday Book divided into 44 hundreds. From the 12th century the ports grew in importance, fuelled by trade with the continent, wool and cloth manufacture in the county, and the fishing industry, and a shipbuilding industry was established.
Over several centuries a series of castles and forts were constructed along the coast of the Solent to defend the harbours at Southampton and Portsmouth. These include the Roman Portchester Castle which overlooks Portsmouth Harbour, and a series of forts built by Henry VIII including Hurst Castle, situated on a sand spit at the mouth of the Solent, Calshot Castle on another spit at the mouth of Southampton Water, and Netley Castle. Southampton and Portsmouth remained important harbours when rivals, such as Poole and Bristol declined, as they are amongst the few locations that combine shelter with deep water. Southampton has been host to many famous ships, including the Mayflower and the Titanic, the latter being staffed largely by natives of Southampton.
Hampshire played a large role in World War II due to its large Royal Navy harbour at Portsmouth, the army camp at Aldershot and the military Netley Hospital on Southampton Water, as well as its proximity to the army training ranges on Salisbury Plain and the Isle of Purbeck. Supermarine, the designers of the Spitfire and other military aircraft, were based in Southampton, which led to severe bombing of the city. Aldershot remains one of the British Army's main permanent camps. Farnborough is a major centre for the Aviation industry.
The county has in the past been called "Southamptonshire" and appears as such on some Victorian maps. The name of the administrative county was changed from 'County of Southampton' to 'County of Hampshire' on 1 April 1959. The short form of the name, often used in postal addresses, is Hants.
This abbreviated form is derived from the Old English Hantum plus Scir (meaning a district governed from the settlement now known as Southampton) and the Anglo-Saxons called it Hamtunschire. At the time of the Domesday Book (1086) this had been compressed to Hantescire.
The Isle of Wight has traditionally been treated as part of Hampshire for some purposes, but has been administratively independent for over a century, obtaining a county council of its own in 1890. The Isle of Wight became a full ceremonial county in 1974. Apart from a shared police force there are now no formal administrative links between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, though many organisations still combine Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
The towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch also fall within the traditional county of Hampshire, but were ceded to Dorset in the local government reorganisation of 1974.
- Aldershot Military Museum
- Beaulieu Abbey and the National Motor Museum
- Beacon Hill, Burghclere, Hampshire
- Broadlands
- D-Day museum
- Exbury Gardens & House
- Farnborough Air Sciences Museum
- Farnborough Airshow
- HMS Victory
- Itchen Valley Country Park
- Lakeside Country Park
- Lepe Country Park
- Manor Farm Country Park
- Marwell Wildlife
- Mary Rose
- Mid-Hants Watercress Railway
- Mottisfont Abbey
- Netley Abbey
Abbey, Church or Priory - New Forest
- New Forest Museum
- River Avon
- River Hamble
- River Itchen
- Portchester Castle
- Portsdown Hill
- Portsmouth Historic Dockyard inc. the Royal Naval Museum & historic ships
- Queen Elizabeth Country Park
- River Meon
- River Test
- Romsey Abbey
- Royal Armouries Museum (Fort Nelson)
- Royal Victoria Country Park
- Silchester Roman Town
- Southampton Water
- South Downs Way, a long distance footpath
- Southsea Castle
- Spinnaker Tower
- Staunton Country Park
- Stratfield Saye House
- St Michael's Abbey
- The Vyne,
- Whitchurch Silk Mill
- Winchester City Mill
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