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Remains of Burghclere railway station in 1963. Burghclere is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England. According to the 2011 census the village had a population of 1,152. [1] The village is near the border of Hampshire with Berkshire, four miles south of Newbury. The closest settelments are Newtown, Old Burghclere and Newtown Common.
Burghclere remained in the possession of the see of Winchester until 1551. The most notable Bishops of Winchester being William of Wykeham (1320 or 1324–1404), who founded New College, Oxford, and New College School in 1379, and Winchester College in 1382, but also owned, in his own right, Earlstone manor in the parish of Burghclere.
The village of Adbury is part of the civil parish of Burghclere, [1] and is part of the Burghclere, Highclere and St. Mary Bourne ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council. [2] The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council .
Burghclere railway station (originally named Sydmonton) [1] was a station on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway in England. It was further from the village of Burghclere than Highclere railway station but Burghclere station was relatively busy, serving the larger village of Kingsclere .
The civil parish of St Mary Bourne [2] is part of the Burghclere, Highclere and St Mary Bourne ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council. [3] The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council. The ward includes Binley, and the hamlets of Swampton and Stoke further up the Bourne rivulet valley.
The medieval borough was formed from part of the parish of Burghclere, and flourished in the 13th and 14th centuries. Adjacent Sandleford Priory , Sandleford , over the border on the other side of the River Enborne (Alder stream) in Berkshire , had been founded on an earlier establishment between 1193 and 1202.
The station was very similar to other stations on the line with the standard passing loop, station building and a single siding to the south. To the north of the station the line was crossed on an unusually designed bridge by the A34 road.
The site is located at grid reference, to the southwest of the village of Old Burghclere, in the county of Hampshire. The hill has a summit of 261m AOD. Nearby to the east lies Ladle Hill and further east is Watership Down. Also to the north east lies Old Burghclere Lime Quarry SSSI. The A34 runs between Beacon Hill and Ladle Hill to the east.