Upham, Hampshire

Infobox UK place
official_name= Upham
map_type= Southampton
country= England
region= South East England
static_

static_image_caption=
latitude= 50.97866
longitude= -1.24282
os_grid_reference= SU531202
post_town= Southampton
postcode_area= SO
postcode_district= SO32
dial_code= 01489
constituency_westminster= Winchester (constituency)
civil_parish= Upham
shire_district= City of Winchester
shire_county= Hampshire
website= [http://communities.hants.gov.uk/upham-index Upham Parish Council]
population = 616 [cite web |url= http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=795229&c=Upham&d=16&e=15&g=453136&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1205236843195&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 |title=Parish Headcounts, Area: Upham CP|date=2001 |accessdate=2008-03-11 |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics ]

Upham is a small village and civil parish in the south of England located in Hampshire approximately 7 miles south-east of Winchester .

The village

There is a small post office and a local primary school. The village is divided into two parts: Upham, based around the church to the north, and Lower Upham, centred on the post office and main road. Local interests include football at the local recreation ground and evenings out in the local pub. There are three pubs, the "Brushmakers Arms" (the only pub of this name in England), the "Alma Inn" and the "Woodman". Other features include a village pond.

The village features an antiquated, almost hierarchical social composition, resembling the traditional feudal English village setup, revolving around a few powerful landowners or aristocrats, a significant bourgeois class and a rural agricultural working class community.Fact|date=March 2008

Transport

Lower Upham is crossed by the B2177 road, formerly the A333 Winchester to Portsmouth road; there are no other main roads in the parish. There is a regular bus service to Winchester, Twyford, Colden Common, Bishop's Waltham and Fareham.

The parish is crossed by many trackways and paths including the Monarch's Way, Pilgrims' Trail and King's Way. In the south of the parish King's Way and the Pilgrims' Trail partly use the course of the former Roman road from Winchester to Portchester, which passes between Upham and Lower Upham. [Ordnance Survey (2007), "Meon Valley, Portsmouth, Gosport & Fareham, Explorer 119", 1:25,000 scale map, Southampton: Ordnance Survey, ISBN 0-319-23596-3] [Ordnance Survey (2001), "Roman Britain south sheet", 5th Ed, 1:625,000 map, Southampton: Ordnance Survey, ISBN 0-319-29029-8]

Geology

Upham lies on the northern margin of the Paleogene deposits of the Hampshire Basin. The north of the parish is on chalk with the Lambeth Group and London Clay to the south. [Andrews I.J. & Balson P.S. (1995), "Wight: Sheet 50N 02W Solid Geology", 1:250,000 geological map series, Keyworth: British Geological Survey, ISBN 0-75183088-5.]

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