Qualla: Hampshire https://qualla.com/hampshire en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Hampshire https://qualla.com/hampshire Hampshire: Introduction https://qualla.com/hampshire/ If you wanted to write the history of England in a single county, you could pick worse than Hampshire. Winchester was the capital of Wessex and then, for a while, of England itself. Portsmouth has launched fleets at France, Spain, Argentina, and Iraq in turn. Southampton sent the Mayflower out in 1620 and the Titanic out in 1912. Florence Nightingale is buried at East Wellow. Jane Austen wrote every one of her novels here. The Duke of Wellington lived at Stratfield Saye. Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth. And on a beach at Hayling Island in 1958, a teenager called Peter Chilvers screwed a sail to a board and invented windsurfing. Hampshire is England's south-coast garage - the place where things have been built, launched, sailed away, and brought home for over a thousand years.

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