New Alresford or simply Alresford is a small town and also civil parish in the City of Winchester area 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 stores, a tourist information centre, a central conservation area, 4 cafeteria, five pubs as well as is a terminus as with Alton of the Watercress Line, a steam-worked heritage railway at Alresford train station. Of its population, 25.9% are aged 65 or over, and also the mean age is more than the national average, at 45.4 years. Old Alresford is a village and also civil church 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 town of Alton. The town is crowned by its huge T-shape major road sanctuary. The community is an attractive art, rail as well as tourist destination, with its classic, dense 2 Georgian streets positioned near Winchester and the South Downs National Park. Below are the Swan Hotel, Bell Hotel, Pink House Hotel, jewellers, a glass of wine merchants, butchers, flower shops, plaything shop, boutique, the Alresford Gallery, Candover Gallery and also tea rooms. There are 3 other hostelries, the larger being the World Inn by among the stream channels and play area. Alresford goes to the south-western end of the Watercress Line (formally the Mid-Hants Railway). This heritage train line runs steam and also diesel trains, and also gets its name from the fact that it made use of to be the line that took watercress up to London. The other end of the heritage line is Alton, which is additionally completion 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. Accordingly, the town council provide 115 hanging baskets every summer season. Both settlements have a consolidated population of 5,971 people.