Kings Worthy
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Kings Worthy | |
Kings Worthy shown within Hampshire |
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Population | 4000 [1] |
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OS grid reference | |
Parish | Kings Worthy |
District | City of Winchester |
Shire county | Hampshire |
Region | South East |
Constituent country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | WINCHESTER |
Postcode district | SO23 |
Dialling code | 01962 |
Police | Hampshire |
Fire | Hampshire |
Ambulance | South Central |
European Parliament | South East England |
UK Parliament | Winchester |
Website: http://www.kingsworthy.org.uk | |
List of places: UK • England • Hampshire |
Kings Worthy is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England, approximately 2 miles North East of Winchester. Kings Worthy was a Tithing of Barton Stacey when the Domesday Book was written.
It now has a convenience store, a newsagent/Post Office, a kitchen display shop, a hair dresser, a fishing store and a surgery. The church is St Mary's. The village drama group, the Worthy Players, perform three shows a year in the Jubilee Hall. The primary school is King's Worthy Primary. Eversley Park is the local recreation ground, with playground/fitness equipment and football pitches and a basketball/football court. The Worthys YFC is an active youth football club for all ages both boys and girls and operates from Eversley Park. The main road (Springvale Road) is fairly busy, and is served by regular buses to Winchester city centre.
There are two public houses in the village - The Cart and Horses (with a skittle alley) and The King Charles.
Worthys Conservation Volunteers is the local group of practical conservationists working working on the 3rd Sunday of each month to care for the wildlife and natural environment in and around the village and The Worthys.
The parish is crossed by the A33, which merges with the A34 immediately to the south. Kings Worthy formerly had a station on the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway. It was by-passed to the west by the London and South Western Railway (the surviving main line) and to the north by the Alton, Alresford and Winchester Railway, part of which survives to the east as the Watercress Line).
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[edit] References
- ^ Parish Headcounts, Area: Kings Worthy CP (includes Abbots worthy). Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics (2001). Retrieved on 2008-03-06.