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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 .
Kingsclere and Whitchurch; Rural district: Area • 1951: 77,394 acres (313.2 km 2) Population • 1939: 17,791 • 1971: 27,545: History • Created: 1 April 1932 • Abolished: 31 March 1974 • Succeeded by: Basingstoke and Deane: Status: Rural district • HQ: Kingsclere: Contained within • County: Hampshire
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 ...
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 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 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.
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.
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).