Kings Worthy

infobox UK place
official_name= Kings Worthy
country = England
region= South East England
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population= 4,000 [ cite web | url= http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=795212&c=Kings+Worthy&d=16&e=15&g=453089&i=1001x1003x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1204818926328&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 |title=Parish Headcounts, Area: Kings Worthy CP (includes Abbots worthy)|work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |date=2001|accessdate=2008-03-06]
os_grid_reference= SU493323
latitude= 51.087808
longitude= -1.295302
post_town= WINCHESTER
postcode_area= SO
postcode_district= SO23
dial_code= 01962
constituency_westminster= Winchester
civil_parish= Kings Worthy
shire_district= City of Winchester
shire_county = Hampshire
website = http://www.kingsworthy.org.uk

Kings Worthy is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England, approximately two miles north-east of Winchester. Kings Worthy was a tithing of Barton Stacey when the Domesday Book was written.

It now has a convenience store, a newsagent/post office, a kitchen display shop, a hairdresser, a fishing store and a surgery. The church is St Mary's. At the centre of the village is the Worthies Club (Sports & Social) which is located adjacent to Eversley Park, and offers two bars with various social activities, live televised football, snooker, pool, darts, quizzes and crib. The club is open every evening, most lunchtimes and all weekend. The village drama group, [http://www.theWorthyPlayers.co.uk the Worthy Players] , perform three shows a year in the Jubilee Hall. The primary school is King's Worthy Primary. Eversley Park is the local recreation ground, with playground/fitness equipment and football pitches and a basketball/football court. The Worthys YFC is an active youth football club for all ages both boys and girls and operates from Eversley Park. The main road (Springvale Road) is fairly busy, and is served by regular buses to Winchester city centre.

As well as the Sports and Social club (which sells discounted drinks), there are also two public houses in the village - [http://www.thecartandhorses.com "The Cart and Horses"] (with a skittle alley) and [http://www.gales.co.uk/pubguide/pubguide_winchester_kingcharles.php "The King Charles"] .

[http://www.worthysconservationvolunteers.org.uk Worthys Conservation Volunteers] is the local group of practical conservationists working on the third Sunday of each month to care for the wildlife and natural environment in and around the village and The Worthys.

The parish is crossed by the A33, which merges with the A34 immediately to the south. Kings Worthy formerly had a station on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway. It was by-passed to the west by the London and South Western Railway (the surviving main line) and to the north by the Alton, Alresford and Winchester Railway, part of which survives to the east as the Watercress Line.

External links

* [http://www.theworthys.org.uk Kings Worthy Parish Council homepage]
* [http://www.tubbshall.org.uk Tubbs Hall Community Centre homepage]

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