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NETLEY ABBEY

Welcome to Netley Abbey, a village situated 

between Southampton and Hamble in England 

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Netley Abbey village has many famous names associated with  it:

Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of the Royal Victoria Military Hospital and made many subsequent visits.

Florence Nightingale will always be associated with the hospital.

John Constable & Francis Towne painted watercolours of the Abbey Ruins.  The paintings hang in the Tate Gallery, London.

Horace Walpole and Thomas Gray visited and wrote about the Abbey.

William Sotheby wrote an Ode to the Abbey.

William Lisle Bowes wrote a Sonnet about the Abbey.

John D. Sedding, a famous Victorian Architect, designed St. Edwards Church.

Lord Louis Mountbatten was a frequent visitor to the Netley home of Col. Richard Chrichton.

Dr. Watson of the Sherlock Holmes stories was trained at the Royal Victoria Hospital.  Netley is mentioned in his first book  "A Study in Scarlet"                    

Jane Austin is known to have visited the Abbey on several occasions.

          Charles Herbert Lightoller was second mate on the ill fated Titanic.

 

 

 

 


Site last updated April 2008