Upham, Hampshire

Coordinates: 50°58′43″N 1°14′34″W / 50.97866°N 1.24282°W / 50.97866; -1.24282
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Upham
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSouthampton
Postcode districtSO32
Dialling code01489
PoliceHampshire and Isle of Wight
FireHampshire and Isle of Wight
AmbulanceSouth Central
Winchester (constituency)
WebsiteUpham Parish Council
List of places
UK
England
Hampshire
50°58′43″N 1°14′34″W / 50.97866°N 1.24282°W / 50.97866; -1.24282

Upham is a small village and civil parish in the south of England located in Hampshire approximately 7 miles south-east of Winchester .

The village

There is a small

Alma Inn
. Other features include a village pond.

The country house The Holt, a

World Wars. It was also the home of Sir Robert Calder
, a naval officer in the Napoleonic Wars, who died there in 1815. Calder is buried in the local churchyard.

There are marginal remains of a Late Roman period Villa in nearby Little Woodcotte, found in 1849.

Transport

Lower Upham is crossed by the

B2177 road, formerly the A333 Winchester to Portsmouth road; there are no other main roads in the parish. There is a regular bus service to Winchester, Twyford, Colden Common, Bishop's Waltham and Fareham
.

The parish is crossed by many trackways and paths including the Monarch's Way, Pilgrims' Trail and King's Way. In the south of the parish King's Way and the Pilgrims' Trail partly use the course of the former Roman road from Winchester to Portchester, which passes between Upham and Lower Upham.[3][4]

Geology

Upham lies on the northern margin of the Paleogene deposits of the Hampshire Basin. The north of the parish is on chalk with the Lambeth Group and London Clay to the south.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Parish Headcounts, Area: Upham CP". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 2001. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
  2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  3. ISBN 0-319-23596-3
  4. ISBN 0-319-29029-8
  5. ISBN 978-0-7518-3088-0
    (flat).

External links

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