When we opened The Hambledon 10 years ago we were given a brilliant tatty old book called 'How to Start a Shop' by Martin Perry. Published in 1948 not all the advice is exactly current but we are loving Mr Perry's fantastic and timeless concept of the shopkeeper as 'merchant adventurer'.

These are our current adventures. We have descended into the Norman

basement with a full on new home for menswear. We have sallied forth across Little Minster Street to open a stand alone furniture shop. We're pushing the frontiers of The Hambledon empire but only within the confines of our little corner of Winchester. As ever we would love to see you in the shop but if you can't get here (though it doesn't require a very intrepid spirit) we hope this site

will give you some sense of what it is we do and continue to love doing.

With thanks to the wonderful Rob Ryan for rendering our real life shop and real live selves into such beautiful virtual reality.

The Hambledon
10 The Square, Winchester
Hampshire SO23 9ES