The Hambledon is a leading independent store in the centre of Winchester, founded in 1999 and trading from a 4 storey Georgian building overlooking the cathedral. If it's not oxymoronic, we are traditional and modern shopkeepers, obsessing over detail and beauty and people and things; making the experience online as special as the experience in store; building a place that is a pleasure to be in and filled with stuff that is a pleasure to take home. We like to think of The Hambledon as a kind of department store but just selling the good stuff.

The Norman (and possibly a little bit Roman) Basement is home to our Menswear department; the Ground Floor houses Homeware with a Mezzanine level for Beauty and Grooming. Our Kids and Stationery departments are in the Tudor rooms at the rear of the building and we have a dedicated Project Space which we use for temporary collaborations and exhibitions. Womenswear occupies the whole of the First Floor. For us, the website is just like another building, albeit not quite so historic, giving the scope, personality and essence of The Hambledon in digital form.

We want to be a shop which sells the things we love in a space we love to people we grow to love. It's a sentimental kind of aspiration but born out of a genuine love of retail and a real belief in the worth of shops and shopping.