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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 Town of Whitchurch–Stouffville consists of several distinct communities and the intermediary countryside. The largest urban area is the community of Stouffville proper (2021 pop. 36,753 [11]), while other communities in the larger town include Ballantrae, Bethesda, Bloomington, Cedar Valley, Gormley, Lemonville, Lincolnville, Musselman's Lake, Pine Orchard, Pleasantville, Preston Lake ...
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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
Center for Urban History of East Central Europe; Centre for Contemporary History; Study and Documentation Centre for War and Contemporary Society; Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds; Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Collegium Carolinum (1956) Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History