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48 unusual facts about Hampshire


A308 road

The long Kingston Vale to Bisham route starts at the Robin Hood Gate roundabout, the only give-way junction of the A3 south-west of Wandsworth and north-east of Greatham, Hampshire.

Ashlett

Ashlett is a natural creek, located down a lane leading from the village of Fawley.

Balksbury

Balksbury is the site of a former Bronze Age hillfort to the southwest of Andover, Hampshire.

Blackfield, Hampshire

The name "Blackfields" was originally applied to an area of countryside near the village of Fawley, and there is still a Blackwell Common next to Blackfield.

Borough of Fareham

The present boundaries date from 1932 when the parishes of Crofton, Hook with Warsash, Portchester, Sarisbury and Titchfield, all previously part of the Fareham Rural District were added to Fareham urban district.

Brocas helm

It is named after the Anglo-Norman Brocas family of Beaurepaire, Hampshire descending from the knight Sir Barnard Brocas (1330–1395).

Buddleja 'Gulliver'

'Gulliver' is cultivated in the UK and France; it is included in the NCCPG National Collection held by Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge, Hampshire.

Buddleja 'Podaras6' = Flutterby Peace

In the UK, several specimens were introduced to the NCCPG national collection at the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge in 2012.

Buddleja agathosma

A specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG national collection of Buddleja at Longstock Park Nursery, near Stockbridge, Hampshire, England.

Buddleja albiflora

The shrub is fully hardy in the UK, and features in the NCCPG National Collection of Buddleja held by the Longstock Park Nursery, near Stockbridge.

Buddleja auriculata

The plant features in the NCCPG National Collection of Buddleja held by the Longstock Park Nursery, near Stockbridge, although the large specimen there was killed during the winter of 2010–11, when temperatures fell to -12°C.

Buddleja davidii 'Notbud' = Masquerade

The specimen once grown as part of the NCCPG national collection held by the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge died in the winter of 2010-11 after years of weak growth.

Buddleja davidii 'Pixie'

Specimens of 'Pixie Blue' and 'Pixie White' are grown as part of the NCCPG national buddleja collection held by the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge, Hampshire, UK.

Buddleja davidii 'Tobudpipur' = Buzz Magenta

Buddleja List 2011 - 2012 Longstock Park Nursery Longstock Park Nursery, Stockbridge, UK.

Buddleja farreri

A large specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG national collection of Buddleja at Longstock Garden Nursery, near Stockbridge, Hampshire, England.

Buddleja indica

In the UK, specimens are grown under glass at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and as part of the NCCPG national collection at Longstock Park Nursery, near Stockbridge.

Buddleja nivea var. yunnanensis

A large specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG National Collection held by Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge, Hampshire.

Combe Gibbet

The "Combe Gibbet" Race takes in the highest hill in the South East of England; Walbury Hill, the highest in Hampshire; Pilot Hill as well as Ladle Hill and the edge of Watership Down before entering Overton the source of the River Test.

Desmond Swayne

They have a son Albert (born July 1989) and two daughters (born 23 June 1991 and March 1997); the family live in Burley.

Eleanor Bone

Bone was a close confidant of Gardner's initiator Dafo, and she reported that the New Forest coven was a hereditary coven that followed the old ways of the Hampshire region, and that they traced their origins to the time of the death of King William Rufus in the Norman era.

Ellingham Priory

Ellingham Priory was a medieval monastic house in Ellingham, Hampshire, England.

Farnborough/Aldershot Built-up Area

Several other continuous villages form part of the conurbation, including Ash, Ash Vale, Cove, Frimley Green, Frogmore, Hale, Hawley, Mytchett and Tongham.

Francis Perceval Eliot

In 1770, he went to Mrs Betesworth's Academy in Kingston, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, leaving in 1772 to join Mr Lockee's Military Academy, Little Chelsea, London, and later to Colonel Gallatin's School of Equitation for 7 months.

Franklin Thomasson

Franklin died of cancer on 29 October 1941 and was buried at Lyndhurst, Hampshire.

George Boakye

From December 1967 to December 1968, he attended the Royal Air Force Staff College, Andover, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

Griffon 2000TD hovercraft

Griffon Hoverwork (GHL) of Hythe, England has designed, manufactured and operated hovercraft for over 40 years.

Hambledon Club

The original ground is at Broadhalfpenny Down, opposite the Bat and Ball Inn, in Hyden Farm Lane, near Clanfield, where now the Broadhalfpenny Brigands Cricket Club play.

Hampshire County Cricket Club

Land in West End, on the outskirts of Southampton was chosen as the location for The Rose Bowl.

Hampshire county cricket teams

Marden is in West Sussex, north of Chichester, and interestingly close to Hambledon, which is just across the county boundary in Hampshire.

Hinton Admiral railway station

Hinton Admiral railway station is a station serving the villages of Bransgore and Hinton and the town of Highcliffe on the Hampshire/Dorset border in southern England.

HMS Diligence

HMS Diligence was a base at Hythe, Hampshire for the minesweepers and motor torpedo boats of the reserve fleet, which opened in 1953.

Jane Martha St. John

In 1832, their uncle, Wither Bramston, died, leaving his Oakley Hall estate in Hampshire to Jane Martha's brother William who went to live there with his young family.

John de Bothby

Unlike many holders of the office who could expect a bishopric, he seems never to have been raised beyond vicar: he held the living of Keyingham, and later Hound, Hampshire.

Julian Lewis

As MP for New Forest East, he successfully opposed the development of a large container port at Dibden Bay, between Marchwood and Hythe, and waged other high-profile local campaigns.

Kimpton

Kimpton, Hampshire, a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England

Mirago

Mirago plc, based in Alton, Hampshire, is a European provider of search and media related software.

Norman Nicholson

Nicholson was educated at Holborn Hill School and Millom Secondary School, but his education was interrupted when he needed treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis aged 16, being away for two years in a Linford, Hampshire sanatorium.

Philip Howard Colomb

The admiral died quite suddenly and in the full swing of his literary activity on 13 October 1899, at Steeple Court, Botley, Hants.

Portals Athletic F.C.

Portals Athletic F.C. was a successful works football side based in Overton, near Basingstoke in Hampshire.

RAF Prestwick

RAF Prestwick closed on 7 December 2013, with personnel transferring to the RAF's 'London Military' facilities at the NATS owned London Area Control Centre, Swanwick, Hampshire.

Robert Mackreth

Sir Robert Mackreth (?1725-1819), of Ewhurst, Hampshire, was an English club owner, money lender, speculator and politician.

Rout of Winchester

Ahead of them, about eight miles to the northwest, the road crossed the River Test at Stockbridge.

Roy Halliday

There followed several postings to naval units: commander of 813 Naval Air Squadron on HMS Eagle; commander of HMS Diligence (a base at Hythe, Hampshire); senior officer of the 104th Minesweeping Squadron in the Far East.

Saint-Alban, Quebec

Alton refers to its location in the geographic township of Alton, formed in 1841 and named after an English town in Hampshire.

Southern Television broadcast interruption

The Southern Television broadcast interruption was a broadcast interruption through the Hannington transmitter of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the United Kingdom at 5:10 pm on 26 November 1977.

Thomson Directories

Thomson Directories, more commonly referred to as Thomson Local is a local business search company based in Farnborough, Hampshire, England.

Thruxton Karting Circuit

Thruxton Karting Circuit is a kart racing circuit near the village of Thruxton in Hampshire, England.

William Lowth

Early work brought him to the notice of Peter Mew, bishop of Winchester, who made him his chaplain, gave him a prebendal stall at Winchester on 8 October 1696, and presented him to the benefice of Buriton with Petersfield, Hampshire, in 1699, which he held until his death.


1986 in British radio

Replacing Radio Victory in East Hampshire, but also introducing commercial radio to Southampton, Winchester and the Isle of Wight, the station transmits with split frequencies; Ocean Sound West on 103.2FM and 1557AM and Ocean Sound East on 97.5FM (former 95FM transmitter for Radio Victory) and 1170AM, the former AM transmitter of the former ILR station.

Award session

Axess Electronics Ltd, or Session, were an electronics manufacture based in Basingstoke, Hampshire during the 1980s, specialising in guitar amplification.

Ælle of Sussex

#The wood called "Andredes leag" is the Weald, which at that time was a forest extending from north-west Hampshire all through northern Sussex.

Bashley Cricket Club

Bashley Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club based at Bashley in Hampshire.

Bean's Purchase, New Hampshire

In 1851 the New Hampshire state legislature authorized the governor and council to appoint a land commissioner to sell the public lands, and James Willey of Conway was appointed to that office.

Bertie Bolton

Eight years after last representing Hampshire in the County Championship, Bolton returned in 1922, where he made his return debut against Nottinghamshire.

Bramshott Camp

Bramshott Military Camp, often simplified to Camp Bramshott, was a temporary army camp set up on Bramshott Common, Hampshire, England during both the First and Second World Wars.

Brickearth

Commercially useful deposits of about 2m to 4m thick are present in Kent, Hertfordshire and Hampshire, overlying chalk, Thanet Beds or London Clay.

Bucranium

Garlanded bucrania provide a repetitive motif in the plasterwork of the fine 18th century Staircase Hall of The Vyne (Hampshire), inside the Pantheon at Stourhead (Wiltshire) and at Lacock Abbey (Wiltshire).

Cacapon

Cacapon Mountain is a Ridge-and-valley Appalachians mountain in Morgan and Hampshire Counties, West Virginia

Capture of USS Chesapeake

Some of the timbers of the Chesapeake were used in the construction of the Chesapeake Mill in Wickham, Hampshire.

Charles R. Jackson

He and his wife had to sell their New Hampshire home and eventually moved to Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

Cheden Holt

Cheden Holt, situated on a hilltop about a mile from the rural village of Hambledon in Hampshire, was a home venue of the Hambledon Club.

Cove School

Cove School, Hampshire, a community secondary school in Farnborough, Hampshire, England

David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey

On 13 May 2005 it was announced that Chidgey would be created a life peer, and on 17 June 2005 the peerage was created as Baron Chidgey, of Hamble-le-Rice in the County of Hampshire.

Defence College of Communications and Information Systems

The College consists of a headquarters based at Blandford Camp in Dorset, the Royal Navy CIS Training Unit at HMS Collingwood, Fareham, Hampshire, The Royal School of Signals at Blandford Camp and the Royal Air Force Number 1 Radio School, collocated with the headquarters of the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering at Cosford, of which the Aerial Erector School at RAF Digby is a part.

Delroy Easton Grant

(The name does not directly refer to the village of Minstead, Hampshire; rather it was chosen from an alphabetical list of English villages, the method of operational naming in use at the time).

Edward Hussey-Montagu, 1st Earl Beaulieu

From 1758 to 1762, he was Whig Member of Parliament for Tiverton and on his retirement was raised to the Peerage as Baron Beaulieu, of Beaulieu in the County of Southampton, and later Earl Beaulieu, of Beaulieu in the County of Southampton, in 1784.

Fabyan

Carroll, New Hampshire, mountain town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States that contains the railroad junction of Fabyan

John Fabyan Parrott, was a United States representative and senator from New Hampshire in the early 19th century

Francis Murphy

Francis P. Murphy (1877–1958), Republican 73rd Governor of New Hampshire

Gerard Basset

Gerard Francis Claude Basset OBE, MS, MW, MBA, is the owner with his wife, Nina, of Hotel Terravina, a New Forest Hotel near Southampton in Hampshire, United Kingdom.

Hampton Academy

New Hampton School, an independent college preparatory high school located in New Hampton, New Hampshire.

Ismael Ramírez

In both 2006 and 2007, Ramirez split time between the Class AAA Syracuse Chiefs and New Hampshire.

Itchin Stoke Down

The game was pre-announced in the Hampshire Chronicle on Monday 18 May as "Hambledon Club v Hambledon Parish with Noah Mann".

Janel Bishop

Bishop, the first titleholder from New Hampshire, was crowned by outgoing titleholder Bridgette Wilson of Oregon.

Katharine Lambert Richards Rockwell

Katherine Lambert Richards Rockwell married theologian William Walker Rockwell in South Orange, New Jersey on November 8, 1934 after a courtship at Lake Sunapee (New Hampshire).

Matt Arnold

He then worked as a runner on the ITV daytime quiz show Talk About, before returning to college to study journalism at Highbury College in Hampshire.

Matthew Harvey

He represented New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives from 1821 to 1825, during the Seventeenth U.S. Congress and the Eighteenth U.S. Congress.

Oliver Vachell

Oliver Vachell (c.1518-64), of Buriton, near Petersfield, Hampshire and North Marston, Buckimghamshire, was an English politician.

Peter Moyes

Once the war ended, he and his wife, Judy travelled to the United Kingdom, where he became a Latin and History teacher at Winchester College in Hampshire.

Philip Weaver

Weaver made two first-class appearances for Hampshire in the 1938 County Championship against Glamorgan and his second and final first-class match against Cambridge University, in which he made his highest first-class score of 37.

Police Staff College, Bramshill

The Police Staff College, Bramshill, Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, England, is the principal police staff training establishment in England and Wales.

Sam Jepp

Jepp was born in Northtown, Aldershot, Hampshire and played his youth football with Aldershot Athletic before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Samuel Penhallow

Removing to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he there married Mary Cutt, a daughter of John Cutt (1625–1681), president of the province of New Hampshire in 1679, a successful merchant and mill-owner, and thus came into possession of considerable property (including much of the present site of Portsmouth).

Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, 4th Baronet

His half-brother Lionel Hervey-Bathurst represented Hampshire in two first-class matches in 1875.

Sir Henry Thompson, 3rd Baronet

Sir Henry was, during his life, Curate in charge at Holy Trinity Church, Bembridge, Isle of Wight; Rector of the Church of Holy Trinity, Fareham, Hampshire (the building of which had been paid for by himself and his mother, Lady Jane Thompson), and in 1845 he was given the living of Frant, Sussex by the Earl of Abergavenny.

Southern Co-operative

Head office was previously located at Fareham in Hampshire, but since July 2011, is now located at 1000 Lakeside, a business park in North Harbour, Portsmouth.

Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 1998

Despite being able to enforce the follow-on, Hampshire instead decided to forfeit their second innings, giving the Sri Lankans a target of 309 runs off the last 89 overs of the final day to win, which they reached following an unbeaten century from Chandika Hathurusingha and 90 from Mahela Jayawardene.

Styles Bridges

He was the secretary of the New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation from 1922 until 1923, and the editor of the Granite Monthly Magazine from 1924 until 1926.

Bridges ran for the position of governor of New Hampshire in 1934, and won, becoming the nation's youngest governor at the time, according to John Gunther's book, Inside U.S.A. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1936, and would serve until his death in 1961.

The Adventures of Jack Ransom

The story takes place in the fictional universe of Megawhamville, a city much to the style of Aldershot in Hampshire, UK.

The Gregg School

The Gregg School is a non-selective coeducational independent day school in Townhill Park, Southampton, Hampshire, UK.

The Private Life of the Kingfisher

Depicting a pair of Common Kingfisher at their underground nest on the River Test in Hampshire, England, it was filmed and directed by Ronald and Rosemary Eastman (Ron doing the photography and Rosemary the sound), written and produced by Jeffery Boswall, and narrated by Peter Scott.

United States presidential election, 1820

Nonetheless, during the counting of the electoral votes on February 14, 1821, an objection was raised to the votes from Missouri by Representative Arthur Livermore of New Hampshire.

Wellworthy Athletic F.C.

The 1984–85 season was a memorable one as they completed a fantastic double by winning the Bournemouth League and the Pickford Cup, as well as being finalists in the Hampshire Intermediate Cup.

Winning New Hampshire

Other appearances include Bill Gardner (the New Hampshire Secretary of State, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, Congressman Ed Markey, Vanessa Kerry and Martin Sheen.

WNYN

WNYN-FM, a radio station (99.1 FM) licensed to serve Whitefield, New Hampshire, United States

WUKV

WOXX, a planned radio station (97.1 FM) licensed to Colebrook, New Hampshire, United States, which held the call sign WUKV from 2008 to 2011