Picket Piece

Picket Piece
Picket Piece
Picket Piece shown within Hampshire
OS grid reference SU3912646677
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town ANDOVER
Postcode district SP11 6
Dialling code 01264
Police Hampshire
Fire Hampshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament

Picket Piece is a small village in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Andover, which lies approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west from the village. The village has a website for its village hall. 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' [1].

The only church in the village now stands empty. It started as the Harroway Mission. It was named after the Whitchurch to Andover road 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 Reform Church yearbook in 2001.

References

  1. ↑ Template:'Residents appalled by approved contentious 520 homes plan' Andover Advertiser 05 November 2017.



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