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52 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.

AJS

The competition department was located next to the famous race track at Thruxton, Andover.

Award session

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

Balksbury

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

Bashley Cricket Club

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

Brough Superior SS100

Lawrence's last SS100 (Registration GW 2275) was built in 1932 and was on loan to the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, Hampshire.

Buddleja 'Autumn Surprise'

Buddleja 'Autumn Surprise' is a hybrid cultivar arising from a cross of Buddleja crispa with Buddleja alternifolia 'Argentea' made by chief propagator Peter Moore of the Longstock Park Nursery, Stockbridge, England.

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 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 '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 nivea var. yunnanensis

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

Buddleja stenostachya

In the UK, specimens are grown as part of the NCCPG National Collection held by Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge, Hampshire, at the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, near Romsey, and at the Savill Garden in Surrey.

Buddleja sterniana

The shrub now features in the NCCPG National Collection held by the Longstock Park Nursery, near Stockbridge, in Hampshire, England.

Charles Collet

At the time of his death, Charles Collet's parents lived in Woodleigh, West End, Southampton.

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.

Combe Gibbet

The Combe Gibbet is also the start of a scenic 16 mile off-road race to Overton organised by the Overton Harriers and Athletic Club.

Darndale

This idea of a communal space fostering community spirit was based on a large housing scheme called Cricketer's Way, located in Andover, Hampshire, England.

E. J. Pennington

The only surviving example of this design is preserved by the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire, England.

Edward Gee

He married, on 25 January 1703, Jane, daughter of Henry Limbrey of London and Hoddington in Upton-Gray, Hampshire, and by her had several children, whose names are recorded in the Westminster Abbey registers.

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.

Fareham red brick

Fareham red brick is a famous red-tinged clay brick, from Fareham, Hampshire.

Franklin Thomasson

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

Gardeners' Question Time

These editions are recorded in a specially adapted potting shed at Sparsholt College near Sparsholt, Winchester; where the regular panel members also maintain a small demonstration garden, curated by Rosie Yeomans.

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 current Hambledon Cricket Club ground is nearer Hambledon village at Ridge Meadow, just off the road to Broadhalfpenny Down, about half a mile from the village.

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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.

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The origin of the club, based near Hambledon in rural Hampshire, is unclear but it had certainly been founded by 1768.

Hampshire County Cricket Club

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

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.

Hampshire, West Virginia

Hampshire is an unincorporated community on the North Branch Potomac River in Mineral County, West Virginia.

Hardley

Hardley, Hampshire, a suburb of the village of Hythe near Southampton in Hampshire, England

Itchen Ferry village

Itchen Ferry village was a small hamlet on the East bank of the River Itchen in Hampshire.

Kimpton

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

MarioNet split web browser

-- or December 1998 according to one of the cited articles? --> at iCentrix Ltd in Andover, Hampshire, UK, by former Caldera UK employees led by Roger Gross and Andy Wightman.

Mirago

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

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.

Purlieu

Examples include Dibden Purlieu in Hampshire, on the border of the New Forest and Bedford Purlieus, once part of Rockingham Forest.

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.

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.

Sprat and Winkle Line

With the many horse racing stables around the Stockbridge area the railway line was also used to transport racehorses around the country.

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.

TJ Sokol Mariánské Hory

More recently, in 2005, they won the Overton International Festival in Overton, England.

Winchester Council election, 2003

20 were contested in the election with the election in Droxford, Soberton and Hambledon being a by-election after the previous Conservative councillor resigned.

Windmill Down

Windmill Down is a rural location near the town of Hambledon in Hampshire.


Albert Bushnell Hart

He maintained a summer home in New Hampshire near Mount Monadnock.

Alresford Cricket Club

It represented the adjacent small towns of New Alresford and Old Alresford in Hampshire.

Andy Michael

Michael was a scout for the New York Yankees from 1978 to 1982 and was responsible for the signing of Bob Tewksbury and Joe Lefebvre who were both drafted by the Yankees out of Concord, New Hampshire.

Arthur Livermore

Elected as a Democratic-Republican as United States Representative for New Hampshire to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses, Livermore served from March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821.

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.

Barbastelle

In Britain, only a few breeding roosts are known; Paston Great Barn in Norfolk, parts of Exmoor and the Quantock Hills in Devon and Somerset (see Tarr Steps), the Mottisfont woodland in Hampshire and Ebernoe Common in West Sussex.

Battle of Marton

The Battle of Marton or Meretum took place on 22 March 871 at a place recorded as Marton, perhaps in Wiltshire or Dorset, after Æthelred of Wessex, forced (along with his brother Alfred) into flight following their costly victory against an army of Danish invaders at the Battle of Ashdown, had retreated to Basing (in Hampshire), where he was again defeated by the forces of Ivar the Boneless.

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.

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.

Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth

Ceawlin (pronounced See-aw-lin) Thynn attended Horningsham Primary School and Kingdown Comprehensive School in Warminster, Bedales School in Hampshire, and read economics and philosophy at University College London.

Daubney

Hinton Daubney, small hamlet in Hampshire, England, located between Catherington and Hambledon

David Wildstein

Several journalists credit Wildstein with having helped launch their careers while they worked at PolitickerNJ.com, including Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt; James Pindell, the political director at WMUR in New Hampshire; and Steve Kornacki, who hosts a cable television political news commentary program on MSNBC.

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).

Dwarf wedgemussel

The Ashuelot River in New Hampshire, the Farmington River in Connecticut, and the Neversink River in New York harbor large populations, but these number in the thousands only.

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.

Emma Elizabeth Thoyts

In 1899, Emma married one of the last of the great Cope family from Bramshill House in Hampshire, John Hautenville Cope.

Fabyan

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

Franklin Pierce House

Pierce Manse, at 14 Horseshoe Pond Lane, Concord, New Hampshire, Pierce's home from 1842-1848

Hampton Academy

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

History of Hampshire

Southampton has been host to many famous ships, including the Mayflower and the Titanic, the latter being crewed largely by Hampshire natives.

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.

Joseph F. Wingate

Wingate's uncle, Paine Wingate, was a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Justice of the Supreme Court, all of New Hampshire.

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).

Lempster, New Hampshire

Lempster is home to New Hampshire's first wind farm, providing a total of 24 MW from 12 turbines, which started operation in 2008.

Maharashtra Cricket Association Cricket Stadium, Pune

The stadium is an astute addition to Hopkins Architects' already impressive portfolio: the prestigious practice also has notable work at London's Lord's and Hampshire County Cricket grounds, and the National Tennis Centre at Roehampton (completed February 2007), along with its recent London Velopark win.

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.

Ocean FM

Heart Hampshire (formerly Ocean FM (UK)), a British independent local radio station serving South Hampshire, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight

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.

Richard Chenevix Trench

While incumbent of Curdridge Chapel near Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire, he published (1835) The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems, which was favourably received, and was followed in 1838 by Sabbation, Honor Neale, and other Poems, and in 1842 by Poems from Eastern Sources.

Sir Frederick Hervey-Bathurst, 4th Baronet

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

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.

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.

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.

Thruxton Circuit

Thruxton Circuit is a motor racing circuit located near the village of Thruxton in Hampshire, England which is used to host a number of motorsport events including British Touring Cars and Formula 3 racing.

United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, 2008

The 2008 congressional elections in New Hampshire were held on November 4, 2008 to determine who would represent the state of New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives during the 111th Congress from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2011.

Wachusett Dam

The Metropolitan Water Board selected the south branch of the Nashua River in Clinton as the best site for Boston's new water supply over New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee, Maine's Sebago Lake, and the Merrimack River.

Wappocomo

Wappocomo, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia

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.

WFTN

WFTN-FM, a radio station (94.1 FM) licensed to Franklin, New Hampshire, United States

William Leigh Williamson Eyre

He was ordained in 1865 and became curate of a number of English parishes before being appointed, in 1875, rector of Swarraton and vicar of Northington, Hampshire, where he remained for the rest of his life.

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.