Tranquil River
With Hampshire’s River Test as picturesque as this where it flows through Romsey and the Broadlands estate it is difficult to believe that within little more than six miles downstream it becomes navigable to some of the biggest container ships in the world.
This spot looking across the grounds of Broadlands House, one of Hampshire magnificent mansions, is little more than that distance from the point at Redbridge, on the outskirts of Southampton, where the Test becomes Southampton’s Container Port, the second busiest container shipping terminal in the country.
But at this spot, the tranquility of the river is a different world. The Test itself, recognised as one of the finest chalkstreams in the country and a trout fisherman’s paradise, rises in northern Hampshire and meanders through the county and the towns of Whitchurch and Stockbridge to Romsey and then on towards the sea.
At Broadlands it complements the majestic Palladian style architecture of the mansion, once the home of the 19th century Prime Minister, the 3rd Viscount Palmerston and later the home of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and now occupied by Lord and Lady Brabourne. Yett the house itself dates from the 11th century.
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