Business events in Romsey

Abbey, estate and market

Three listings on Historic England's register tell you most of what shaped Romsey. The Abbey Church of St Mary and St Ethelflaeda is Grade I, and has been on the list since 1951. King John's House is Grade I too, and so is Broadlands House, the house of the Broadlands estate on the edge of the town.

The market is the other constant. Test Valley Borough Council describes Romsey as a historic market town on the River Test with a charter from King Henry I allowing a market every Sunday. Today the regular markets run on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays in the Cornmarket, and the Hampshire Farmers' Market keeps the Sunday tradition going on the first Sunday of each month in the Alma Road car park, which the council says draws around 3,500 visitors.

A market town in a working borough

The ONS counted 19,920 people in the Romsey built-up area at the 2021 Census, against 48,480 in Andover, the borough's other main town, on the same ONS table. Romsey has its own town council. Business figures are kept for the borough: the ONS business register counted 5,800 enterprises across Test Valley in 2026, a figure for the whole borough from Andover in the north to Romsey and its villages in the south, not for the town alone.

Getting here

Romsey has its own station, managed by South Western Railway, on Station Approach. National Rail lists a small car park of 37 spaces, four of them accessible.

By road, Visit Romsey sends people from the east and from the M3 down to junction 3 of the M27, then along the A3057 and the A27 into the centre; from the south west it suggests junction 2 of the M27 and the A36, then the A3090.

Business events here have met at King John's House and Museum on Church Street, at The Cromwell Arms on Mainstone, and at Kimbridge Barn on Kimbridge Lane. Nearby towns with pages here are Stockbridge, Totton, Chandler's Ford and Winchester, and the area as a whole is Winchester and the Test Valley.