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Water Body Attractions In Hampshire

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Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, the former capital of England. After the metropolitan counties and Greater London, Hampshire is the most populous ceremonial county in the United Kingdom. Its two largest settlements, Southampton and Portsmouth, are administered separately as unitary authorities and the rest of the area forms the administrative county, which is governed by Hampshire County Council. First settled about 14,000 years ago, Hampshire's recorded history dates back to Roman times, when its capital was Winchester. When the Romans left Britain, the area was ...
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Water Body Attractions In Hampshire

  • 1. Langstone Harbour Hayling Island
    Langstone Bridge connects Hayling Island with the English mainland of Hampshire. The name of the bridge is derived from its location at the coastal village of Langstone. Historically connection was by a causeway known as the Wadeway, this was severed by the construction of the Portsmouth and Arundel Canal.
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  • 2. Fleet Pond Fleet
    Fleet is a town and civil parish in the Hart district of Hampshire, England, located 36 miles southwest of London and 10 miles east of Basingstoke. It is part of and is the major town of Hart District, which is one of the richest and least deprived areas in England. The 2011 population for Fleet was 38,726.In 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and again in 2017 Hart, of which Fleet is the main town, was voted the best place to live in the UK by the Halifax Quality of Life study, above areas such as Elmbridge in Surrey and Wokingham in Berkshire. This is due to the highly affluent majority of the population, better weather and health conditions, high levels of access to leisure space and the town's situation surrounded by countryside.Fleet is locally famous for Fleet Pond, the largest freshwater...
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  • 4. Canoe Lake Portsmouth
    Canoe diving and Kayak diving are recreational diving where the divers paddle to a diving site in a canoe or kayak carrying all their gear in or on the boat to the place they want to dive. Canoe or kayak diving gives the diver independence from dive boat operators, while allowing dives at sites which are too far to comfortably swim, but are sufficiently sheltered. The range can be up to several kilometres along the coastline from the launching point to a place where access would be difficult from the shore, although the sea is sheltered. It is a considerably cheaper alternative to using a powered boat, as well as combining the experience of sea kayaking or canoeing with scuba diving. Other advantages of canoe and kayak diving include: breathing gas is not needed for getting to and from the...
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  • 7. Blashford Lakes Ringwood
    Blashford is a small hamlet situated in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Ringwood, which lies approximately 1 mile south from the village. It is in the civil parish of Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley. Near the village, in the Avon Valley on the western edge of the New Forest, is the Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve, created by the quarrying of sand and gravel. The 490 acres wildlife reserve is managed by the Wildlife Trust in partnership with the New Forest District Council and landowners Wessex Water and Bournemouth and West Hampshire Water. Blashford Lakes is an internationally important site for thousands of wildfowl.
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  • 9. Swanwick Lakes Swanwick
    Swanwick is a village in Hampshire, England, east of the River Hamble and north of the M27 motorway. The village is located within the borough of Fareham and is the site of the London Area Control Centre and the London Terminal Control Centre , part of National Air Traffic Services Air Traffic Control Centre, and Bursledon Brickworks, the last remaining example of a Victorian steam-powered brickworks. Swanwick has no real village centre and the only commercial premises of note is the Elm Tree Public House. Since the 1980s, the gradual spread of housing developments has meant that Swanwick has partly merged with the new development of Whiteley although the only direct vehicular access is via Yew Tree Drive . Swanwick railway station on the West Coastway Line is approximately one mile south ...
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