- Cliddesden
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Coordinates: 51°14′13″N 1°05′38″W / 51.236830°N 1.0939644°W
Cliddesden
Cliddesden village pond
Cliddesden shown within HampshireOS grid reference SU6335049017 District Basingstoke and Deane Shire county Hampshire Region South East Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town BASINGSTOKE Postcode district RG25 Dialling code 01256 Police Hampshire Fire Hampshire Ambulance South Central EU Parliament South East England UK Parliament Basingstoke List of places: UK • England • Hampshire Cliddesden is a parish in Hampshire, England located 3 miles south of Basingstoke, close to the M3 motorway. In the 2001 census it had a population of 489. The land and housing are currently protected as it is within a Conservation Zone and has many areas of beauty and rolling countryside.
The village was formerly served by Cliddesden railway station on the now defunct Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway. The station was used in the making of several films. In the 1937 film Oh, Mr Porter!, Cliddesden appeared as 'Buggleskelly'. A short length of railway track was installed in the centre of the Viables Roundabout in Basingstoke in 1976 to commemorate the line at a point close to its original route.[1]Contents
Location
Position: grid reference SU631489
Nearby towns and cities: Alton, Andover, Basingstoke, Newbury, Winchester
Nearby villages: Axford, Dummer, Ellisfield, Farleigh Wallop, Herriard, Hook, Kingsclere, North Waltham, Oakley, Old Basing, Overton, Steventon, Whitchurch.
References
- ^ Southern Evening Echo 11-03-1976
External Links - Organisations
- Cliddesden Village Hall
- Cliddesden Community Conservation Group (3CG)
- Cliddesden Primary School
- St Leonard's Church, Cliddesden
External Links - Environment
External Links - Miscellaneous
- Map sources for Cliddesden
- Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway
External links
Media related to Cliddesden at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:- Villages in Hampshire
- Hampshire geography stubs
- Basingstoke and Deane
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