Andover Down

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Andover Down
Hampshire
Location
Grid reference: SU397458
Location: 51°12’38"N, 1°25’58"W
Data
Post town: Andover
Postcode: SP11
Dialling code: 01264
Local Government
Council: Test Valley
Parliamentary
constituency:
North West Hampshire

Andover Down is a hamlet in Hampshire, two miles east of Andover.

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, but remained a relatively isolated location until the rapid expansion of Andover (as a London overspill town) and in particular with the building of the Walworth Industrial Estate to the east.

With the large housing development at Picket Twenty, 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[1]

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Andover Down)

References