Andover Down is a
hamlet
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in
Hampshire
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,
England
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east of
Andover
Andover may refer to:
Places Australia
* Andover, Tasmania
Canada
* Andover Parish, New Brunswick
* Perth-Andover, New Brunswick
United Kingdom
* Andover, Hampshire, England
** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station
United States
* Ando ...
.
History
On the 1888 OS map there are a very small number of houses: Down House, Down House farm, Harewood, Harewood Farm, and two further dwellings.
It seems Andover Down underwent some expansion immediately after the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, but remained a relatively isolated location until the rapid expansion of
Andover
Andover may refer to:
Places Australia
* Andover, Tasmania
Canada
* Andover Parish, New Brunswick
* Perth-Andover, New Brunswick
United Kingdom
* Andover, Hampshire, England
** RAF Andover, a former Royal Air Force station
United States
* Ando ...
(as an
overspill town) and in particular with the building of the Walworth Industrial Estate to the east.
With the large housing development at
Picket Twenty
Picket Twenty, once a hamlet, is now effectively a suburb of Andover, in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. The centre of Andover lies to the (2.6 km) north-west of the suburb.
History
On the 1888 OS map, only the farmstead o ...
, and especially the post-2018 second phase development, houses now surround the south of Andover Down, and it is arguably now a suburb of Andover.
In 2020 planning permission was sought to build additional housing to the north of Andover Down, on agricultural land
References
External links
Hamlets in Hampshire
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