Alresford
New Alresford or merely Alresford is a small town as well as civil parish in the City of Winchester area of Hampshire, England. It is 7.5 miles (12 kilometres) northeast of Winchester as well as 12 miles (20 km) southwest of the town of Alton. New Alresford has independent shops, a vacationer information centre, a main conservation area, four cafeteria, 5 clubs as well as is a terminus as with Alton of the Watercress Line, a steam-worked heritage railway at Alresford railway station. Of its population, 25.9% are aged 65 or over, and also the mean age is more than the nationwide average, at 45.4 years. Old Alresford is a town as well as civil church in Hampshire, England. It is 1 km (0.6 miles) north of the community of New Alresford, 12 km (7 miles) northeast of the city of Winchester, and also 20 km (12 miles) south-west of the community of Alton. The community is crowned by its large T-shape primary street conservation area. The community is an attractive art, rail as well as vacationer location, with its classical, dense two Georgian streets located near Winchester and also the South Downs National Park. Here are the Swan Hotel, Bell Hotel, Pink House Hotel, jewelers, white wine merchants, butchers, blossom stores, plaything store, boutique, the Alresford Gallery, Candover Gallery as well as tea rooms. There are 3 other pubs, the larger being the World Inn by among the stream networks and also play area. Alresford is at the south-western end of the Watercress Line (officially the Mid-Hants Railway). This heritage railway line runs steam as well as diesel trains, and gains its name from the truth that it utilized to be the line that took watercress approximately London. The other end of the heritage line is Alton, which is also the end of the existing Alton-London Waterloo line, making it feasible to take the train from Alresford to London: diesel or steam to Alton, and after that contemporary train right into London. Accordingly, the community council offer 115 hanging baskets every summer season. Both negotiations have a consolidated population of 5,971 people.