New Alresford or merely Alresford is a small town and 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 km) southwest of the town of Alton. New Alresford has independent shops, a traveler info centre, a central conservation area, 4 tea rooms, five clubs as well as is a terminus just like Alton of the Watercress Line, a steam-worked heritage railway at Alresford train terminal. Of its population, 25.9% are aged 65 or over, as well as the mean age is more than the national standard, at 45.4 years. Old Alresford is a town as well as civil parish in Hampshire, England. It is 1 km (0.6 miles) north of the community 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 town is crowned by its large T-shape major street sanctuary. The community is an attractive art, rail and also traveler location, with its classic, dense 2 Georgian roads positioned near Winchester as well as the South Downs National Park. Below are the Swan Hotel, Bell Hotel, Pink House Hotel, jewelers, wine vendors, butchers, blossom shops, plaything store, boutique, the Alresford Gallery, Candover Gallery as well as tea rooms. There are 3 other pubs, the larger being the Globe Inn by among the stream channels and also play area. Alresford goes to the south-western end of the Watercress Line (formally the Mid-Hants Railway). This heritage train line runs steam as well as diesel trains, as well as gains its name from the reality 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 likewise the end of the present Alton-London Waterloo line, making it feasible to take the train from Alresford to London: diesel or steam to Alton, and after that modern train right into London. Appropriately, the town council give 115 hanging baskets every summer. The two settlements have a consolidated population of 5,971 individuals.