Picket Piece
| Picket Piece | |
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  Picket Piece Location within Hampshire | |
| OS grid reference | SU3912646677 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ANDOVER |
| Postcode district | SP11 6 |
| Dialling code | 01264 |
| Police | Hampshire |
| Fire | Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
| Ambulance | South Central |
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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 (part of the Harrow Way) 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 Reformed Church yearbook in 2001.
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References[]
- ^ Andover Advertiser, "Residents appalled by approved contentious 520 homes plan", 5 November 2017.
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