Let's move to Winchester | Money | The Guardian

Let's move to Winchester | Money | The Guardian

What's going for it? It's Christmas, so I wouldn't be doing Bracknell or Basildon, would I? No, you need a nice chocolate box of a place. It's an economic slump, after all. We need a bit of cheering up. So cast your eyes upon Winchester, which has been battling York for the coveted title of Most Christmassy Town in Britain. Who knew such a contest existed? Seems that the prerequisite for Christmassiness isn't 60s shopping precincts and a smashing line in ring roads (sorry Bracknell/Basildon), but olde worlde atmosphere somewhere between the Peasants' Revolt and Jane Austen. We wouldn't want the Industrial Revolution uglifying yuletide with its iron girders and railways now, would we? ........