Picket Piece is a small village in the
Test Valley
Test Valley is a local government district and borough in Hampshire, England, named after the valley of the River Test. Its council is based in Andover.
The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by a merger of the boroughs of Andover and Romsey, a ...
district of
Hampshire
Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties of England, county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English citi ...
, England.
Andover
Andover may refer to:
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* Andover, Tasmania
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* Andover Parish, New Brunswick
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* Andover, Hampshire, England
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lies approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west from the village.
The village has expanded rapidly since 2015 with several new roads and house building. In October 2017 Test Valley Council approved another 520 homes to be built in the village.
[''Andover Advertiser'', "Residents appalled by approved contentious 520 homes plan", 5 November 2017.]
There is one church in the village. It started as the Harroway Mission. It is named after the Whitchurch to Andover road (part of the
Harrow Way
The Harrow Way (also spelled as "Harroway") is another name for the "Old Way", an ancient trackway in the south of England, dated by archaeological finds to 600–450 BC, but probably in existence since the Stone Age. The Old Way ran fr ...
) that ran through Picket Piece to Andover. When the Walworth Industrial Estate was built in the 1960s, that stretch of the road was renamed Walworth Road.
The Mission was built by the Congregational (now the United Reformed Church) in Andover. It last appeared in the United Reformed Church yearbook in 2001.
External links
Picket Piece Village Hall
References
Villages in Hampshire
Test Valley
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