Abbots Worthy is a small village in the City of Winchester district of Hampshire, England. It is in the civil parish of

Kings Worthy Kings Worthy is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England, approximately two miles north-east of Winchester. Kings Worthy was a tithing of Barton Stacey when the Domesday Book was written. St Mary's church The parish church, built in 1864, ...

. Abbots Worthy lies on the A33 about to the north of

Winchester Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ...

. Abbots Worthy is included within the civil parish of

and is part of the Winchester City Council administration. In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson in the ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described Abbotts Worthy as:

ABBOTSWORTHY, a tything in the parish of Kings worthy, 2 miles NNE of Winchester, Hants.

The

Itchen Way The Itchen Way is a long-distance footpath following the River Itchen in Hampshire, England, from its source near Hinton Ampner House to its mouth at Woolston. The walk finishes at Sholing railway station. The route has been promoted by t ...

, which is a long-distance

footpath A footpath (also pedestrian way, walking trail, nature trail) is a type of thoroughfare that is intended for use only by pedestrians and not other forms of traffic such as motorized vehicles, bicycles and horses. They can be found in a wide ...

, passes through the village. The River Itchen lies just to the south of Abbots Worthy.

Notable former residents

* Archie Bland - Writer, journalist and Deputy Editor of '' The Independent'' newspaper * Sir Christopher Bland - Former Chairman of

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, the BBC and the RSC * Lady Georgia Byng - Children's author * The Hon. Jamie Byng - Owner of Canongate Books * The 8th Earl of Strafford

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Villages in Hampshire {{Hampshire-geo-stub