Colebrook Street Car Park Winchester

Colebrook Street Car Park Winchester is a car park in Winchester; the place-specific account attached to this stop leads to a garden gifted by Peter Smithers, who is presented as one of the inspirations for Bond, James Bond. That gives this otherwise practical city reference a distinctive historical connection.

What is Colebrook Street Car Park in Winchester?

Colebrook Street Car Park is a car park in Winchester, United Kingdom. Winchester is a cathedral city in Hampshire, England, and the county town of Hampshire. The city lies on the River Itchen, at the western end of the South Downs National Park.

For planning purposes, the verified description here is limited to identifying the place and its Winchester setting. The supplied sources do not provide opening hours, fees, capacity, facilities, directions, reviews or live parking availability, so those details should be checked separately before you travel.

What is the garden connected with this Winchester stop?

The garden associated with the Colebrook Street Car Park stop uses another branch of the river as its source. It was gifted to Winchester by Peter Smithers. The source keeps the garden and the car park distinct: it describes the garden in connection with the stop, but does not say that the garden is inside the car park.

Smithers was a Member of Parliament in the 1950s and was involved in espionage during the Second World War. That specific background is the reason the Colebrook Street Car Park reference connects a city location with a much wider story.

Why does Peter Smithers connect this place with James Bond?

One of Smithers's colleagues was Ian Flemming. The account also says that Smithers's wife had a golden typewriter, creating the wordplay “Bond vivant”. On that account, Peter Smithers was one of the inspirations for Bond, James Bond; it does not claim to explain the full creation of the character.

This material appears at stop 11 of 18 in Journey Through Winchester's Past. Save the route if you want to explore the Colebrook Street Car Park stop alongside the rest of its Winchester context.

Use Colebrook Street Car Park as a verified point of reference in Winchester, while checking current parking information separately before setting out. To follow the associated local story, visit Journey Through Winchester's Past.