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51 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.

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.

Ashlett

Ashlett is a natural creek, located down a lane leading from the village of Fawley.

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 'Autumn Surprise'

Buddleja 'Autumn Surprise' is a hybrid cultivar arising from a cross of Buddleja crispa with Buddleja alternifolia 'Argentea' made by chief propagator Peter Moore of the Longstock Park Nursery, Stockbridge, England.

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 'Podaras6' = Flutterby Peace

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

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 davidii 'Tobudviole' = Buzz Violet

Buddleja List 2011 - 2012 Longstock Park Nursery Longstock Park Nursery, Stockbridge, UK.

Buddleja farreri

A large specimen is grown as part of the NCCPG national collection of Buddleja at Longstock Garden Nursery, near Stockbridge, Hampshire, England.

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 Collet

At the time of his death, Charles Collet's parents lived in Woodleigh, West End, Southampton.

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.

Combe Gibbet

The "Combe Gibbet" Race takes in the highest hill in the South East of England; Walbury Hill, the highest in Hampshire; Pilot Hill as well as Ladle Hill and the edge of Watership Down before entering Overton the source of the River Test.

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.

Cove School

Cove School, Hampshire, a community secondary school in Farnborough, Hampshire, England

Darndale

This idea of a communal space fostering community spirit was based on a large housing scheme called Cricketer's Way, located in Andover, Hampshire, England.

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.

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.

Eleanor Bone

Bone was a close confidant of Gardner's initiator Dafo, and she reported that the New Forest coven was a hereditary coven that followed the old ways of the Hampshire region, and that they traced their origins to the time of the death of King William Rufus in the Norman era.

Fareham red brick

Fareham red brick is a famous red-tinged clay brick, from Fareham, Hampshire.

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.

Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur

Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur is one of the best-known foreign architects to have worked in 19th century England, where he designed Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild and the Imperial Mausoleum at Saint Michael's Abbey in Farnborough, Hampshire.

George Boakye

From December 1967 to December 1968, he attended the Royal Air Force Staff College, Andover, Hampshire, United Kingdom.

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.

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

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.

Henry George Hine

Born at Brighton, Sussex, on 15 August 1811, he was the youngest son of William Hine, from Hampshire, by his marriage with Mary Roffey.

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.

International Nurses Day

At St Margaret's Church at East Wellow in Hampshire, where Florence Nightingale is buried, a service is also held on the Sunday after her birthday.

Itchin Stoke Down

In the contemporary records, the venue's name is often shortened to "Stoke Down", which is incorrect, as is a popular notion that it is near Hambledon like the other two famous Hampshire venues of the time: Broadhalfpenny Down and Windmill Down.

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.

Julian Lewis

As MP for New Forest East, he successfully opposed the development of a large container port at Dibden Bay, between Marchwood and Hythe, and waged other high-profile local campaigns.

MarioNet split web browser

-- or December 1998 according to one of the cited articles? --> at iCentrix Ltd in Andover, Hampshire, UK, by former Caldera UK employees led by Roger Gross and Andy Wightman.

Philip Howard Colomb

The admiral died quite suddenly and in the full swing of his literary activity on 13 October 1899, at Steeple Court, Botley, Hants.

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.

Purlieu

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

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.

Sprat and Winkle Line

With the many horse racing stables around the Stockbridge area the railway line was also used to transport racehorses around the country.

Thomson Directories

Thomson Directories, more commonly referred to as Thomson Local is a local business search company based in Farnborough, Hampshire, England.

Thruxton Circuit

Thruxton Circuit is a motor racing circuit located near the village of Thruxton in Hampshire, England which is used to host a number of motorsport events including British Touring Cars and Formula 3 racing.

Thruxton Karting Circuit

Thruxton Karting Circuit is a kart racing circuit near the village of Thruxton in Hampshire, England.

Windmill Down

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


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.

Arthur Jenks

Arthur B. Jenks (1866–1947), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire

Arthur Livermore

Elected as a Democratic-Republican as United States Representative for New Hampshire to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses, Livermore served from March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821.

Award session

Axess Electronics Ltd, or Session, were an electronics manufacture based in Basingstoke, Hampshire during the 1980s, specialising in guitar amplification.

Ælle of Sussex

#The wood called "Andredes leag" is the Weald, which at that time was a forest extending from north-west Hampshire all through northern Sussex.

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.

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.

Bretton Woods

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

Brickearth

Commercially useful deposits of about 2m to 4m thick are present in Kent, Hertfordshire and Hampshire, overlying chalk, Thanet Beds or London Clay.

Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne

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

Bucranium

Garlanded bucrania provide a repetitive motif in the plasterwork of the fine 18th century Staircase Hall of The Vyne (Hampshire), inside the Pantheon at Stourhead (Wiltshire) and at Lacock Abbey (Wiltshire).

Cacapon

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

Capture of USS Chesapeake

Some of the timbers of the Chesapeake were used in the construction of the Chesapeake Mill in Wickham, Hampshire.

Daubney

Hinton Daubney, small hamlet in Hampshire, England, located between Catherington and Hambledon

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.

Fabyan

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

Francis Murphy

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

Franklin Pierce House

Pierce Manse, at 14 Horseshoe Pond Lane, Concord, New Hampshire, Pierce's home from 1842-1848

Gerard Basset

Gerard Francis Claude Basset OBE, MS, MW, MBA, is the owner with his wife, Nina, of Hotel Terravina, a New Forest Hotel near Southampton in Hampshire, United Kingdom.

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.

Heywood Sumner

In his mid-forties he relocated to Cuckoo Hill, near Fordingbridge in Hampshire, England, and spent the rest of his life actively investigating and recording the archaeology, geology and folklore of the New Forest and Cranborne Chase regions.

History of Hampshire

Southampton has been host to many famous ships, including the Mayflower and the Titanic, the latter being crewed largely by Hampshire natives.

John P. Hale

Hale was elected to the Senate in 1855 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Atherton; James Bell, a Whig, was elected to New Hampshire's other Senate seat in the same election.

Lempster, New Hampshire

Lempster is home to New Hampshire's first wind farm, providing a total of 24 MW from 12 turbines, which started operation in 2008.

Lewis Richard Farnell

In 1893, Farnell married Sylvia (born 1872), youngest daughter of Captain Christopher Baldock Cardew of East Liss, Hampshire, and granddaughter of the Lord Chancellor Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury.

Linford, Hampshire

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

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

Oliver Vachell

Oliver Vachell (c.1518-64), of Buriton, near Petersfield, Hampshire and North Marston, Buckimghamshire, was an English politician.

Peter Henley

Peter is married to Samantha Reed, a counsellor, with three sons, Ben, Harry and Toby, and lives in the New Forest in Hampshire.

Peter Moyes

Once the war ended, he and his wife, Judy travelled to the United Kingdom, where he became a Latin and History teacher at Winchester College in Hampshire.

Police Staff College, Bramshill

The Police Staff College, Bramshill, Bramshill House, Bramshill, Hook, Hampshire, England, is the principal police staff training establishment in England and Wales.

Price Chopper

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

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.

Southern Co-operative

Head office was previously located at Fareham in Hampshire, but since July 2011, is now located at 1000 Lakeside, a business park in North Harbour, Portsmouth.

Styles Bridges

He was the secretary of the New Hampshire Farm Bureau Federation from 1922 until 1923, and the editor of the Granite Monthly Magazine from 1924 until 1926.

Bridges ran for the position of governor of New Hampshire in 1934, and won, becoming the nation's youngest governor at the time, according to John Gunther's book, Inside U.S.A. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1936, and would serve until his death in 1961.

The Adventures of Jack Ransom

The story takes place in the fictional universe of Megawhamville, a city much to the style of Aldershot in Hampshire, UK.

United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, 2008

The 2008 congressional elections in New Hampshire were held on November 4, 2008 to determine who would represent the state of New Hampshire in the United States House of Representatives during the 111th Congress from January 3, 2009 until January 3, 2011.

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.

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.

WNYN

WNYN-FM, a radio station (99.1 FM) licensed to serve Whitefield, New Hampshire, United States

Woodrow, West Virginia

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