The town has grown since Saxon times when it was an important crossing point of the River Test. The original settlement was sited on a raised area of gravel in the middle of the Test and the surrounding land was marshland. It was on this island that the Normans built the Abbey.

Romsey Abbey
The Abbey Church of St Mary and St Ethelflaeda can trace its origins back to 907 AD, the year in which King Edward the Elder, son of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, first settled some nuns here under the charge of his daughter Elflaeda. VISIT WEBSITE