New Alresford or merely Alresford is a village and civil parish in the City of Winchester area of Hampshire, England. It is 7.5 miles (12 kilometres) northeast of Winchester as well as 12 miles (20 km) southwest of the town of Alton. New Alresford has independent stores, a tourist information centre, a main sanctuary, four tea rooms, 5 pubs and is a terminus similar to Alton of the Watercress Line, a steam-worked heritage train at Alresford railway terminal. Of its population, 25.9% are aged 65 or over, and the mean age is more than the nationwide standard, at 45.4 years. Old Alresford is a town and civil church in Hampshire, England. It is 1 kilometres (0.6 miles) north of the community of New Alresford, 12 kilometres (7 miles) northeast of the city of Winchester, as well as 20 kilometres (12 miles) south-west of the town of Alton. The town is crowned by its huge T-shape major street sanctuary. The community is an appealing art, rail as well as vacationer location, with its timeless, dense 2 Georgian roads situated near Winchester and also the South Downs National Park. Here are the Swan Hotel, Bell Hotel, Pink House Hotel, jewellers, red wine merchants, butchers, flower stores, toy store, dress shops, the Alresford Gallery, Candover Gallery as well as cafeteria. There are 3 other public houses, the bigger being the World Inn by among the stream channels as well as 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 also diesel trains, and also obtains its name from the reality that it used to be the line that took watercress approximately London. The various other end of the heritage line is Alton, which is additionally completion of the current Alton-London Waterloo line, making it possible to take the train from Alresford to London: diesel or steam to Alton, and after that modern-day train right into London. Appropriately, the town council supply 115 hanging baskets every summer season. Both settlements have a consolidated population of 5,971 people.