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48 unusual facts about Hampshire


1901–02 Southampton F.C. season

To prepare for the match against the champions, trainer Bill Dawson took the players to the Clump Inn at Chilworth where the players had the use of a field behind the inn.

A308 road

The long Kingston Vale to Bisham route starts at the Robin Hood Gate roundabout, the only give-way junction of the A3 south-west of Wandsworth and north-east of Greatham, Hampshire.

AJS

The competition department was located next to the famous race track at Thruxton, Andover.

Alessandro Cagno

The car subsequently raced in the USA and lapped Brooklands at over 100 mph and is now in the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, England.

Bashley Cricket Club

Bashley Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club based at Bashley in Hampshire.

Brocas helm

It is named after the Anglo-Norman Brocas family of Beaurepaire, Hampshire descending from the knight Sir Barnard Brocas (1330–1395).

Buddleja 'Gulliver'

'Gulliver' is cultivated in the UK and France; it is included in the NCCPG National Collection held by Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge, Hampshire.

Buddleja 'Podaras12' = Flutterby Flow Lavender

In the UK, several specimens were introduced to the NCCPG national collection at the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge in 2012.

Buddleja albiflora

The shrub is fully hardy in the UK, and features in the NCCPG National Collection of Buddleja held by the Longstock Park Nursery, near Stockbridge.

Buddleja davidii 'Notbud' = Masquerade

The specimen once grown as part of the NCCPG national collection held by the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge died in the winter of 2010-11 after years of weak growth.

Buddleja davidii 'Pixie'

Specimens of 'Pixie Blue' and 'Pixie White' are grown as part of the NCCPG national buddleja collection held by the Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge, Hampshire, UK.

Buddleja indica

In the UK, specimens are grown under glass at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and as part of the NCCPG national collection at Longstock Park Nursery, near Stockbridge.

Buddleja nivea var. yunnanensis

A large specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG National Collection held by Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge, Hampshire.

Buddleja sterniana

The shrub now features in the NCCPG National Collection held by the Longstock Park Nursery, near Stockbridge, in Hampshire, England.

Charles Rycroft

He grew up in Dummer, Hampshire, where his family owned most of the village and his father was "the local representative of both Church and State".

Combe Gibbet

The Combe Gibbet is also the start of a scenic 16 mile off-road race to Overton organised by the Overton Harriers and Athletic Club.

Desmond Swayne

They have a son Albert (born July 1989) and two daughters (born 23 June 1991 and March 1997); the family live in Burley.

E. J. Pennington

The only surviving example of this design is preserved by the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, Hampshire, England.

Edward Gee

He married, on 25 January 1703, Jane, daughter of Henry Limbrey of London and Hoddington in Upton-Gray, Hampshire, and by her had several children, whose names are recorded in the Westminster Abbey registers.

Farnborough/Aldershot Built-up Area

Several other continuous villages form part of the conurbation, including Ash, Ash Vale, Cove, Frimley Green, Frogmore, Hale, Hawley, Mytchett and Tongham.

Francis Perceval Eliot

In 1770, he went to Mrs Betesworth's Academy in Kingston, near Portsmouth, Hampshire, leaving in 1772 to join Mr Lockee's Military Academy, Little Chelsea, London, and later to Colonel Gallatin's School of Equitation for 7 months.

George Willes

Born at Hythe, Hampshire in 1823, Willes was the son of Captain George Willes, RN, by his wife Anne Lacon, daughter of Sir Edmund Lacon, Baronet.

Gris Davies-Scourfield

In 1973 he retired to Medstead, Hampshire where he and his wife remained until shortly before Gris's death.

Hambledon Club

The current Hambledon Cricket Club ground is nearer Hambledon village at Ridge Meadow, just off the road to Broadhalfpenny Down, about half a mile from the village.

The original ground is at Broadhalfpenny Down, opposite the Bat and Ball Inn, in Hyden Farm Lane, near Clanfield, where now the Broadhalfpenny Brigands Cricket Club play.

Hampshire County Cricket Club

Land in West End, on the outskirts of Southampton was chosen as the location for The Rose Bowl.

Marden is in Sussex, north of Chichester, and interestingly close to Hambledon, which is just across the county boundary in Hampshire.

Hampshire county cricket teams

Marden is in West Sussex, north of Chichester, and interestingly close to Hambledon, which is just across the county boundary in Hampshire.

Hampshire, West Virginia

Hampshire is an unincorporated community on the North Branch Potomac River in Mineral County, West Virginia.

HMS Diligence

HMS Diligence was a base at Hythe, Hampshire for the minesweepers and motor torpedo boats of the reserve fleet, which opened in 1953.

Itchen Ferry village

Itchen Ferry village was a small hamlet on the East bank of the River Itchen in Hampshire.

Jane Martha St. John

In 1832, their uncle, Wither Bramston, died, leaving his Oakley Hall estate in Hampshire to Jane Martha's brother William who went to live there with his young family.

John Eedes

On his release he took the curacy of Broad Chalk, Wiltshire, which he held 'with much ado' for about two years, and was then made vicar of Hale, Hampshire.

Kimpton

Kimpton, Hampshire, a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England

Linford, Hampshire

Linford is a hamlet in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England, close to the market town of Ringwood.

LMS diesel shunter 7050

At some point it was rebuilt with a Gardner engine and was used at the Royal Navy base at Botley, Hampshire.

Mirago

Mirago plc, based in Alton, Hampshire, is a European provider of search and media related software.

Pontoon fenders

The British assumed the latter definition, using it in such works as the Beaulieu National Motor Museum Encyclopedia of the Automobile.

Portals Athletic F.C.

Portals Athletic F.C. was a successful works football side based in Overton, near Basingstoke in Hampshire.

RAF Prestwick

RAF Prestwick closed on 7 December 2013, with personnel transferring to the RAF's 'London Military' facilities at the NATS owned London Area Control Centre, Swanwick, Hampshire.

Roy Halliday

There followed several postings to naval units: commander of 813 Naval Air Squadron on HMS Eagle; commander of HMS Diligence (a base at Hythe, Hampshire); senior officer of the 104th Minesweeping Squadron in the Far East.

Saint-Alban, Quebec

Alton refers to its location in the geographic township of Alton, formed in 1841 and named after an English town in Hampshire.

South Wonston

South Wonston is a village on the outskirts of the City of Winchester district of Hampshire, England.

Southern Television broadcast interruption

The Southern Television broadcast interruption was a broadcast interruption through the Hannington transmitter of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the United Kingdom at 5:10 pm on 26 November 1977.

Supermarine Air Yacht

The Air Yacht made its first flight in February 1930 at Hythe, England.

William Lowth

Early work brought him to the notice of Peter Mew, bishop of Winchester, who made him his chaplain, gave him a prebendal stall at Winchester on 8 October 1696, and presented him to the benefice of Buriton with Petersfield, Hampshire, in 1699, which he held until his death.

Windmill Down

Windmill Down is a rural location near the town of Hambledon in Hampshire.

Wyvern College

Wyvern College, Hampshire, a secondary school in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England


1986 in British radio

Replacing Radio Victory in East Hampshire, but also introducing commercial radio to Southampton, Winchester and the Isle of Wight, the station transmits with split frequencies; Ocean Sound West on 103.2FM and 1557AM and Ocean Sound East on 97.5FM (former 95FM transmitter for Radio Victory) and 1170AM, the former AM transmitter of the former ILR station.

Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Alanbrooke

Lord Alanbrooke lives in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, Great Britain, where his father Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Alanbrooke is buried.

Albert Bushnell Hart

He maintained a summer home in New Hampshire near Mount Monadnock.

Alresford Cricket Club

It represented the adjacent small towns of New Alresford and Old Alresford in Hampshire.

Andy Michael

Michael was a scout for the New York Yankees from 1978 to 1982 and was responsible for the signing of Bob Tewksbury and Joe Lefebvre who were both drafted by the Yankees out of Concord, New Hampshire.

Barbastelle

In Britain, only a few breeding roosts are known; Paston Great Barn in Norfolk, parts of Exmoor and the Quantock Hills in Devon and Somerset (see Tarr Steps), the Mottisfont woodland in Hampshire and Ebernoe Common in West Sussex.

Battle of Marton

The Battle of Marton or Meretum took place on 22 March 871 at a place recorded as Marton, perhaps in Wiltshire or Dorset, after Æthelred of Wessex, forced (along with his brother Alfred) into flight following their costly victory against an army of Danish invaders at the Battle of Ashdown, had retreated to Basing (in Hampshire), where he was again defeated by the forces of Ivar the Boneless.

Bean's Purchase, New Hampshire

In 1851 the New Hampshire state legislature authorized the governor and council to appoint a land commissioner to sell the public lands, and James Willey of Conway was appointed to that office.

Bramshott Camp

Bramshott Military Camp, often simplified to Camp Bramshott, was a temporary army camp set up on Bramshott Common, Hampshire, England during both the First and Second World Wars.

Bretton Woods

Bretton Woods Mountain Resort, a ski resort located in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne

Lord Moyne died in 1992 at Biddesden, his home in Hampshire, and was succeeded by his eldest son Jonathan.

Cacapon

Cacapon Mountain is a Ridge-and-valley Appalachians mountain in Morgan and Hampshire Counties, West Virginia

Caroline Redman Lusher

In 2001 Redman Lusher was teaching A-level music and performing arts at the Sixth Form College, Farnborough, Hampshire, when she devised the concept of Rock Choir.

Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth

Ceawlin (pronounced See-aw-lin) Thynn attended Horningsham Primary School and Kingdown Comprehensive School in Warminster, Bedales School in Hampshire, and read economics and philosophy at University College London.

Cheden Holt

Cheden Holt, situated on a hilltop about a mile from the rural village of Hambledon in Hampshire, was a home venue of the Hambledon Club.

David Chidgey, Baron Chidgey

On 13 May 2005 it was announced that Chidgey would be created a life peer, and on 17 June 2005 the peerage was created as Baron Chidgey, of Hamble-le-Rice in the County of Hampshire.

David Wildstein

Several journalists credit Wildstein with having helped launch their careers while they worked at PolitickerNJ.com, including Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt; James Pindell, the political director at WMUR in New Hampshire; and Steve Kornacki, who hosts a cable television political news commentary program on MSNBC.

Defence College of Communications and Information Systems

The College consists of a headquarters based at Blandford Camp in Dorset, the Royal Navy CIS Training Unit at HMS Collingwood, Fareham, Hampshire, The Royal School of Signals at Blandford Camp and the Royal Air Force Number 1 Radio School, collocated with the headquarters of the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering at Cosford, of which the Aerial Erector School at RAF Digby is a part.

Dwarf wedgemussel

The Ashuelot River in New Hampshire, the Farmington River in Connecticut, and the Neversink River in New York harbor large populations, but these number in the thousands only.

Edward Hussey-Montagu, 1st Earl Beaulieu

From 1758 to 1762, he was Whig Member of Parliament for Tiverton and on his retirement was raised to the Peerage as Baron Beaulieu, of Beaulieu in the County of Southampton, and later Earl Beaulieu, of Beaulieu in the County of Southampton, in 1784.

Fabyan

Carroll, New Hampshire, mountain town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States that contains the railroad junction of Fabyan

Farleigh Wallop

Since 1486, Farleigh Wallop has been the home of the Wallop family, including John Wallop, Henry Wallop, and Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth, whose seat, Farleigh House, is in the village.

Francis Murphy

Francis P. Murphy (1877–1958), Republican 73rd Governor of New Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club in 2005

Hampshire won the toss and chose to bat at a Southgate wicket which the final scores suggested to be not as batting-friendly as a month ago, when 13 wickets fell in the Championship match between Middlesex and Glamorgan.

Hampton Academy

New Hampton School, an independent college preparatory high school located in New Hampton, New Hampshire.

Harriet Livermore

Her mother died when she was five and at eight her father placed her in a boarding school in Haverhill, Massachusetts, later sending her to Byfield Female Seminary in Byfield, Massachusetts and Atkinson Academy in New Hampshire.

Hinton Admiral railway station

Hinton Admiral railway station is a station serving the villages of Bransgore and Hinton and the town of Highcliffe on the Hampshire/Dorset border in southern England.

Ismael Ramírez

In both 2006 and 2007, Ramirez split time between the Class AAA Syracuse Chiefs and New Hampshire.

James Briggs

James Frankland Briggs (1827–1905), United States Representative from New Hampshire

John McCormack

John Brendan McCormack (born 1935), Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire

Matthew Harvey

He represented New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives from 1821 to 1825, during the Seventeenth U.S. Congress and the Eighteenth U.S. Congress.

Nic Pothas

During his near decade with Hampshire, Pothas has stood in as county captain when captains such as Shane Warne, Shaun Udal and Dimitri Mascarenhas were unavailable.

Ocean FM

Heart Hampshire (formerly Ocean FM (UK)), a British independent local radio station serving South Hampshire, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight

Peter Paddleford

Paddleford's design saw wide use, especially in New Hampshire, Orleans County, Vermont, and Caledonia County, Vermont.

Philip Weaver

Weaver made two first-class appearances for Hampshire in the 1938 County Championship against Glamorgan and his second and final first-class match against Cambridge University, in which he made his highest first-class score of 37.

Portsmouth Airport

Portsmouth International Airport at Pease (IATA: PSM, ICAO: KPSM), near Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Price Chopper

Price Chopper Supermarkets, a supermarket chain with stores in New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut

Purlieu

Examples include Dibden Purlieu in Hampshire, on the border of the New Forest and Bedford Purlieus, once part of Rockingham Forest.

Robert P. Burroughs

He served as committeeman from New Hampshire for the Republican National Committee during the 1940s and actively supported Dwight D. Eisenhower during the 1952 and 1956 presidential campaigns.

Sir Henry Thompson, 3rd Baronet

Sir Henry was, during his life, Curate in charge at Holy Trinity Church, Bembridge, Isle of Wight; Rector of the Church of Holy Trinity, Fareham, Hampshire (the building of which had been paid for by himself and his mother, Lady Jane Thompson), and in 1845 he was given the living of Frant, Sussex by the Earl of Abergavenny.

The Gregg School

The Gregg School is a non-selective coeducational independent day school in Townhill Park, Southampton, Hampshire, UK.

United States presidential election, 1820

Nonetheless, during the counting of the electoral votes on February 14, 1821, an objection was raised to the votes from Missouri by Representative Arthur Livermore of New Hampshire.

Wachusett Dam

The Metropolitan Water Board selected the south branch of the Nashua River in Clinton as the best site for Boston's new water supply over New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee, Maine's Sebago Lake, and the Merrimack River.

WFTN

WFTN-FM, a radio station (94.1 FM) licensed to Franklin, New Hampshire, United States

William Leigh Williamson Eyre

He was ordained in 1865 and became curate of a number of English parishes before being appointed, in 1875, rector of Swarraton and vicar of Northington, Hampshire, where he remained for the rest of his life.

Woodrow, West Virginia

Woodrow, Hampshire and Morgan Counties, West Virginia, an unincorporated community along the border of Hampshire and Morgan Counties

WUKV

WOXX, a planned radio station (97.1 FM) licensed to Colebrook, New Hampshire, United States, which held the call sign WUKV from 2008 to 2011