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Whitchurch is a town in the borough of Basingstoke and Deane in Hampshire, England. It is on the River Test , 13 miles (21 km) south of Newbury, Berkshire , 12 miles (19 km) north of Winchester , 8 miles (13 km) east of Andover and 12 miles (19 km) west of Basingstoke .
The first municipal building in Whitchurch was an old town house in the centre of The Square; after it became dilapidated, it was demolished in the 1780s and the lord of the manor, Viscount Midleton, who was both a local member of parliament and an Irish peer, offered to pay for a new structure. [2]
The district was formed as a merger of the abolished Kingsclere Rural District, centred on Kingsclere, and Whitchurch Rural District, centred on Whitchurch. Kingsclere and Whitchurch Rural District was in turn abolished in 1974, with its area becoming part of Basingstoke District, which was renamed Basingstoke and Deane in 1978. [1]
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Whitchurch was a rural district in Hampshire, England from 1894 to It was formed under the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Whitchurch rural sanitary district . It was abolished in 1932 under a County Review Order and went to form part of the Kingsclere and Whitchurch Rural District .
Whitchurch was one of a number of new boroughs created in the south of England by Queen Elizabeth I. The borough consisted of most of the town of Whitchurch in northern Hampshire, a market town which by the 19th century had shrunk to insignificance. In 1831, the population of the borough was approximately 1,673, and the town contained 261 ...
Hampshire Archives and Local Studies holds the archives for the county of Hampshire. The archives are located in Sussex Street, Winchester , and are run by Hampshire County Council . [ 1 ]
Private footpath, Hurstbourne Park estate, 2008. Hurstbourne Park is a country house and 1200-acre estate near Whitchurch, Hampshire, England.. The park and garden are Grade II listed with Historic England since May 1984, "A late C18 landscape park and pleasure ground surrounding a late C19 house with formal terracing which incorporates a wooded deer park of C14 origin and surviving features ...