New Alresford or just Alresford is a town and civil parish in the City of Winchester area 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 vacationer info centre, a main conservation area, 4 cafeteria, 5 pubs and is a terminus similar to Alton of the Watercress Line, a steam-worked heritage railway at Alresford train station. Of its population, 25.9% are aged 65 or over, as well as the mean age is higher than the national average, 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 town of Alton. The community is crowned by its huge T-shape main road sanctuary. The town is an appealing art, rail as well as vacationer destination, with its classic, thick two Georgian streets situated near Winchester as well as the South Downs National Park. Below are the Swan Hotel, Bell Hotel, Pink House Hotel, jewelers, wine sellers, butchers, flower shops, toy store, boutique, the Alresford Gallery, Candover Gallery and cafeteria. There are three other hostelries, the larger being the Globe 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 train line runs steam and diesel trains, as well as gets its name from the reality that it utilized to be the line that took watercress up to London. The various other end of the heritage line is Alton, which is also 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 into London. Appropriately, the town council give 115 hanging baskets every summer. Both negotiations have a combined population of 5,971 individuals.