Andover Down

Human settlement in England

Andover

District

Test Valley

Hampshire

Region

South East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townANDOVERPostcode districtSP11Dialling code01264Police Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire Hampshire and Isle of Wight Ambulance South Central UK Parliament

North West Hampshire

List of places: UK; England; Hampshire

51°12′38″N 1°25′58″W / 51.21057°N 1.43280°W / 51.21057; -1.43280

Andover Down is a hamlet in Hampshire, England 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Andover.^[1]^[2]

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.^[3]

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 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, 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^[4]

References

^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 185 Winchester & Basingstoke (Andover & Romsey) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2013. ISBN 9780319228845.
^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
^ "OSmap from 1888". OS maps.
^ "TVBC application". TVBC.