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Old Alresford is a small village on one side of the River Alre and has a red brick 18th century church in which Admiral Rodney who defeated the Spanish in 1780 and the French in 1782 is buried.
On the opposite bank sits the new medieval wool town is where French prisoners were held during the Napoleonic Wars and many of them are buried in the churchyard.
There are many fine Georgian houses, and north of Broad Street there is a small mill stream and dam built in 1170 by Godfrey de Lucy, Bishop of Winchester.
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- Landmark