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Little is known of the history of Wherwell prior to it being mentioned in the will of King Edred (946-955), in which he bequeathed to Hyde Abbey, Winchester, “The towns of Wherwell, Andover, and Clere”. There is however strong evidence that there may have been a Roman presence in Wherwell during the time England was an outlying post of the Roman Empire.

In addition to the site of a Roman villa in Fullerton, the skeleton of a man, dating from the Roman period, was uncovered in Wherwell in 2008. The remains were discovered by local resident Richard Drewitt on the edge of a railway cutting behind Wherwell station, and were excavated by Wessex Archaeology. The body was of a male aged probably between 35 and 45 who was around 5ft 5ins tall and the Roman evidence comes from the coffin nails found around the body. It is a matter of record that three skeletons were uncovered during the building of the railway line in 1885, so we can speculate that this was the site of a Roman burial ground.