Alresford
New Alresford or simply Alresford is a small town as well as civil parish in the City of Winchester district of Hampshire, England. It is 7.5 miles (12 kilometres) northeast of Winchester and also 12 miles (20 kilometres) southwest of the community of Alton. New Alresford has independent shops, a tourist information centre, a central conservation area, four cafeteria, 5 pubs and is a terminus just like Alton of the Watercress Line, a steam-worked heritage railway at Alresford railway station. Of its population, 25.9% are aged 65 or over, and also the mean age is higher than the national standard, 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 street conservation area. The town is an appealing art, rail as well as vacationer location, with its timeless, dense 2 Georgian roads located near Winchester and the South Downs National Park. Right here are the Swan Hotel, Bell Hotel, Pink House Hotel, jewelers, red wine merchants, butchers, blossom stores, toy store, boutique, the Alresford Gallery, Candover Gallery and tea rooms. There are three various other public houses, the bigger being the World Inn by one of the stream networks as well as play area. Alresford is at the south-western end of the Watercress Line (formally the Mid-Hants Railway). This heritage railway line runs steam and also diesel trains, and obtains its name from the reality that it used to be the line that took watercress approximately London. The other end of the heritage line is Alton, which is also the end of the current Alton-London Waterloo line, making it feasible to take the train from Alresford to London: diesel or steam to Alton, and after that modern-day train right into London. Appropriately, the community council provide 115 hanging baskets every summer season. Both settlements have a consolidated population of 5,971 people.
