ANDOVER
"ANDOVER, a parish, market town, and parliamentary and municipal borough,
with exclusive jurisdiction, but lying locally in the hundred of Andover,
Andover division of the county of Southampton, 13 miles to the N.W. of
Winchester, and 63 miles from London, or 66 by the South Western railway,
on the Salisbury branch of which it is a station. Its name is composed of
Ann, which applied to the district in which it stands, and lever or dyfr, a
British word for a stream. It lies on the banks of the river Anton, near
the skirts of a large, wooded tract, bordering on Salisbury Plain, and
comprises the chapelry of Foxcote, the hamlets of Charlton, Wildhern, and
several others. It is the centre of a union containing 32 parishes in the
county of Hants, and 4 in Wilts. The Andover canal, which is now being
converted into a railway, connected the town with Southampton Water."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
[Last updated: 4th August 2003 - Brian Pears]
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