Picket Piece

Picket Piece
Picket Piece
	Picket Piece Location within Hampshire
OS grid reference	SU3912646677
Civil parish	Andover;
District	Test Valley;
Shire county	Hampshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	ANDOVER
Postcode district	SP11 6
Dialling code	01264
Police	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°13′05″N 1°26′28″W / 51.217960°N 1.44117°W

Picket Piece is a small village, now effectively a suburb of Andover, in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. Andover lies approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west from the village.

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.

External links

Picket Piece Village Hall

References

^ Andover Advertiser, "Residents appalled by approved contentious 520 homes plan", 5 November 2017.

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[1] Andover Advertiser, "Residents appalled by approved contentious 520 homes plan", 5 November 2017.

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