Wymering
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Wymering is a residential area of the city of Portsmouth in the English county of Hampshire. Unlike the majority of Portsmouth, it is located on the mainland rather than Portsea Island.
Wymering is mentioned in the Domesday Book and was a small village in rural area until it was incorporated into Portsmouth in 1920. On incorporation into Portsmouth a small social housing estate was built to the north of the village. Over the next twenty years this was expanded until Wymering became predominantly social housing with little of the original village remaining.
One building that did remain is Wymering Manor. The manor is the oldest building in Portsmouth. It is now a Youth Hostel and is reputed to be haunted.
