Wincestre
is really Winchester, Hampshire
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
The royal city of Wessex, a city of Roman columns and new stone churches.
The real place
Winchester was Alfred the Great's capital. The cathedral in the photo was begun in 1079, two centuries after the game; the outline of the Anglo-Saxon Old Minster is marked in the grass beside it.
Visiting
A bronze statue of Alfred from 1899 stands at the end of The Broadway. The cathedral is a ten-minute walk from the railway station.
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