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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 .
This is a list of settlements in Hampshire by population based on the results of the 2011 census. The next United Kingdom census will take place in 2021 . In 2011, there were 42 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in Hampshire , shown in the table below.
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 ...
Kingsclere and Whitchurch Rural District [19] Basingstoke and Deane: Beaulieu: 806 [28] 35.18 New Forest Rural District [22] New Forest: Beauworth: Winchester Rural District [29] Winchester: Beech: 532 [30] 5.81 Alton Urban District [10] East Hampshire: Bentley: 1,166 [31] 10.03 Alton Rural District [32] East Hampshire: Bentworth: 553 [33] 15. ...
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]
The South Hampshire built-up area in the south-east of the county has a population of 855,569 and contains the cities of Southampton (269,781) and Portsmouth (208,100). In the north-east, the Farnborough / Aldershot conurbation extends into Berkshire and Surrey and has a population of 252,937.
The Grade II* listed church of St Andrew the Apostle dates back in parts to the 12th century [3] and is probably the oldest existing church in the Diocese of Winchester. [4] In the churchyard is the grave of noted Irish baritone Harry Plunket Greene (1865–1936), as well as those of his two sons, Richard (1901–1978) and David (1904–1941).
Whitnal is a hamlet and small civil parish situated in the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Whitchurch , which lies approximately 2.75 miles (4.4 km) south-west from the hamlet.