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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 .
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 .
The Ratcliff or Baker Hill Site is a 16th-century Huron-Wendat ancestral village located on one of the headwater tributaries of the Rouge River on the south side of the Oak Ridges Moraine in present-day Whitchurch–Stouffville, approximately 25 kilometers north of Toronto.
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 "Jean-Baptiste Lainé" or Mantle Site in the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville, north-east of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the largest and most complex ancestral Wendat-Huron village to be excavated to date in the Lower Great Lakes region. [1]
"Whitchurch Silk Mill Trust weaves silk on Victorian machinery in the Georgian watermill of Whitchurch Silk Mill, Hampshire. The mill is open to the public who come from across the UK and abroad. The charity educates visitors about silk, retains and develops the skills of silk weaving and restores its historic machinery."
Hurstbourne Priors is a small village and civil parish in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Whitchurch , which lies approximately 1.8 miles (3.1 km) north-east from the village.
History; Original company: Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway: Pre-grouping: Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway: Post-grouping: Great Western Railway: Key dates; 4 May 1885 () Opened as Whitchurch: 1 July 1924: Renamed Whitchurch (Hants) 4 August 1942: Closed: 8 March 1943: Re-opened as Whitchurch (Hants) 26 September 1949: Renamed ...