Events

Hyde900 - Hyde Abbey Garden Work Party

📅 Saturday 18 October 2025

⏰ Meet in the Garden from 9.30am - feel free to head off whenever you need

📍 Hyde Abbey Garden, SO23 7DQ 

We'll be weeding and tidying wherever it's needed in preparation for the King Alfred Weekend. New volunteers are always welcome, please bring gloves / gardening hand tools - just an hour or two makes a huge difference!  More information about the Garden and its history and location here. 

King Alfred Weekend events

Click the image or the link to read / download the King Alfred Weekend 2025 programme with further details of all four events.

Hyde900 - King Alfred Weekend Concert

📅 Friday 24 October 2025

⏰ 7.15pm

📍 St. Bartholomew’s Church, King Alfred Place, Winchester, SO23 7DF

💷 £15 non-members / £10 Hyde900 members

Cambridge Renaissance Voices 

Reformation and Renaissance in Tudor England: sacred music from Taverner to Byrd

Director: Rupert Preston Bell 

Hyde900 AGM 

📅 Saturday 25 October 2025

⏰ 11am

📍 St. Bartholomew’s Church, King Alfred Place, Winchester, SO23 7DF 

Join us for a short AGM, coffee and cakes, and the opportunity both to hear what we've been up to this year and to have your say on local issues and events you'd like to see in 2026. 

Hyde900 - King Alfred Weekend Lecture

📅 Saturday 25 October 2025

⏰ 7pm

📍 St. Bartholomew’s Church, King Alfred Place, Winchester, SO23 7DF

💷 £12 non-members / £8 Hyde900 members

David Carpenter, Professor of Medieval History, King’s College London

1225-2025 The 'Real' Magna Carta and Hyde Abbey's part in its story

Professor Carpenter is a leading authority on the history of Britain in the central Middle Ages and has been heavily involved in the Magna Carta project. He hit the media headlines earlier this year after discovering a further copy of Magna Carta in the archives of Harvard University.

Professor Carpenter will talk about the ‘re-issue’ and why the 1225 version is the ‘real’ Magna Carta. This important event was witnessed by Abbot Aston of Hyde Abbey, whose title appears on the charter.

St. Bartholomew - King Alfred Church Service

📅 Sunday 26 October 2025

⏰ 10am

📍 St. Bartholomew’s Church, King Alfred Place, Winchester, SO23 7DF

A special service commemorating Alfred the Great and honouring his legacy.  Following the service, a procession and prayers at the grave site in Hyde Abbey Garden. All welcome! 

Hyde900 @ St. Bart's Christmas Fair

📅 29 November 2025

More details to follow...