New Alresford or merely Alresford is a village and also civil parish in the City of Winchester district of Hampshire, England. It is 7.5 miles (12 km) northeast of Winchester and 12 miles (20 kilometres) southwest of the community of Alton. New Alresford has independent shops, a vacationer information centre, a central sanctuary, 4 tea rooms, five bars as well as is a terminus as with Alton of the Watercress Line, a steam-worked heritage railway at Alresford railway terminal. Of its population, 25.9% are aged 65 or over, as well as the mean age is greater than the nationwide average, at 45.4 years. Old Alresford is a town and also civil parish in Hampshire, England. It is 1 km (0.6 miles) north of the town of New Alresford, 12 kilometres (7 miles) northeast of the city of Winchester, and 20 kilometres (12 miles) south-west of the community of Alton. The community is crowned by its large T-shape major road sanctuary. The town is an attractive art, rail and also vacationer location, with its classical, dense 2 Georgian roads located near Winchester and also the South Downs National Park. Right here are the Swan Hotel, Bell Hotel, Pink House Hotel, jewellers, wine vendors, butchers, blossom shops, plaything store, boutique, the Alresford Gallery, Candover Gallery and also tea rooms. There are three various other public houses, the larger being the World Inn by among the stream networks and play area. Alresford is at the south-western end of the Watercress Line (officially the Mid-Hants Railway). This heritage railway line runs steam and diesel trains, and also obtains its name from the fact that it made use of to be the line that took watercress as much as London. The other end of the heritage line is Alton, which is additionally the end of the existing Alton-London Waterloo line, making it possible to take the train from Alresford to London: diesel or steam to Alton, and afterwards contemporary train right into London. Appropriately, the community council give 115 hanging baskets every summertime. The two settlements have a combined population of 5,971 people.