Kingsclere and Whitchurch Rural District

Successor body as to this area and land to the east: Borough of Basingstoke and Deane
Shown within Hampshire
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	Hampshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 56th 634 km²
Admin. HQ:	Basingstoke
ONS code:	E07000084
Demographics
Population: - Total (2022) - Density	Ranked 107th 187,817 296 / km²
Ethnicity:^[1]	94.7% White 2.1% S.Asian 1.0% Black 1.3% Mixed 1.0% Chinese or other
Politics
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council http://www.basingstoke.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet

Kingsclere and Whitchurch Rural District is a 1932-established council district that comprised the well-developed rural villages of Kingsclere, Whitchurch and the parishes surrounding them. It was formed in 1932 from two 1894-incorporated rural districts of its two named chief component parts. Its area has become since 1974 wholly part of Basingstoke and Deane district with borough status in the north of Hampshire, England. Basingstoke and Deane Council assumed responsibilities and took over its tax collection functions on 1 April 1974 as well as those of Basingstoke Rural District to its east.^[2]

Character

The area had the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty as to its northern half and its widespread chalklands present good-grade arable farmland for staple crops of wheat, barley, oats and maize. It sits at the head of the Test valley, a chalk-fed, high-quality watercourse and the area has a number of bottled water suppliers including of the naturally sparkling variety in its area and small-scale vineyards in the English wine industry. Within the area is Highclere Castle and major villagesbuffered by the rest of their predominantly rural parish land, most populous examples being Tadley, Overton and between 1951-1961 the much-expanded Baughurst.

References

^ Neighbourhood Statistics
^ "England council elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
^ http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10026088

[1] Neighbourhood Statistics

[2] "England council elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 3 September 2011.

[3] ttp://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10026088

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v t e Towns, villages and hamlets in the Basingstoke and Deane District of Hampshire, England
	Towns	Basingstoke Tadley Whitchurch
	Civil parishes	Ashford Hill with Headley Ashmansworth Baughurst Bradley Bramley Burghclere Candovers Chineham Cliddesden Deane Dummer East Woodhay Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green Farleigh Wallop Hannington Herriard Highclere Hurstbourne Priors Kingsclere Laverstoke Litchfield and Woodcott Mapledurwell and Up Nately Monk Sherborne Mortimer West End Newtown North Waltham Nutley Oakley Old Basing and Lychpit Overton Pamber Popham Preston Candover Rooksdown Sherborne St John Sherfield on Loddon Sherfield Park Silchester St Mary Bourne Steventon Stratfield Turgis Tunworth Upton Grey Weston Corbett Weston Patrick Winslade Wootton St Lawrence with Ramsdell
	Villages and hamlets	Adbury Aldermaston Soke Aldern Bridge Andwell Ashe Ashe Warren Ashford Hill Ashley Warren Axford Axmansford Binley Bishop's Green Bramley Corner Bramley Green Broadmere Brock's Green Brown Candover Charter Alley Chilton Candover Cole Henley Dunley East Oakley Ecchinswell Ellisfield Ewhurst Freefolk Hare Warren Headley Heath End Ibworth Inhurst Litchfield Little London Lower Woodcott Lower Wyke Malshanger Mapledurwell Middle Wyke Nately Scures Newfound Newnham Newtown Common North Oakley North Sydmonton Old Basing Old Burghclere Pamber End Pamber Green Pamber Heath Penwood Plastow Green Quidhampton Ramsdell Southrope Stoke Spanish Green Sydmonton Tufton Warren Up Nately Upper Woodcott Upper Wootton Tufton Turgis Green Wadwick Wells-in-the-Field West Heath Whitnal Whitway Woolton Hill Wolverton Wolverton Common Wootton St Lawrence
	Districts of Basingstoke	Brighton Hill Hatch Warren Kempshott Oakridge South Ham Winklebury Worting Viables

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