19-614: Sarisbury is a village to the west of Park Gate within the borough of Fareham , Hampshire , in the south of England. Its focal point is Sarisbury Green (the two names are interchangeable) and the parish church of St Paul, formerly part of Titchfield parish. In previous times it was a rural locality dependent on fruit growing. At the 2011 Census the population of the ward was 7,385. Nearby villages include Bursledon , Hamble-le-Rice and Swanwick . In 1837, Sarisbury, formerly in Titchfield ecclesiastical parish. However, in 1868, Sarisbury
38-561: A United Reformed Church . Holly Hill Cemetery is nearby. Every June the village holds a Fayre on the Green, home to the "Swanwick Rollercoaster" and many other attractions, occasionally including a pair of llamas. A bus route from Southampton to Gosport serves the village, stopping at the three bus stops. Trains on the West Coastway Line serve the two nearby railway stations of Swanwick and Bursledon . Park Gate Park Gate
57-409: A secondary school , Brookfield Community School. Many pupils start at the infant school at the age of 4, move to the junior school at the age of 7, and continue all the way to GCSE level at the age of 16 at Brookfield School. The village has two Christian churches: St Paul's Church of England Church, originally a district church of Titchfield Parish , built in 1836 to a design by Jacob Owen , and
76-458: A growth sector for southern Hampshire with modern businesses moving to nearby Segensworth. With Junction 9 of the M27 within easy reach, Park Gate has become a base for commuting East to Portsmouth , West to Southampton and North to Winchester , Andover and Basingstoke . This Hampshire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Locks Heath Locks Heath
95-404: A large number of small plots. Swanwick railway station opened on 2 September 1889 and helped to facilitate the transportation of large quantities of strawberries to customers all over the country. Strawberries were transported to the waiting trains by horse and cart. A lasting reminder of this is a rail on the outside edge of what is now the pavement leading down the hill to the station. This
114-615: A restaurant. In 1944, Park Gate played host to convoys of Canadian soldiers and tanks who were stationed along Botley Road adjacent to Fair View Terrace, waiting for their orders for the Normandy D-Day landings. During this time, there was an account of a V1 rocket landing in the Duncan Road area, causing some of the Canadian ammunition trucks to catch fire and explode. In the late 1980s, Park Gate along with neighbouring Locks Heath , became
133-527: A tongue of land at the extremity of Titchfield Common which was left when the rest was enclosed. The surrounding area used to be the main provider of strawberries to the whole of the UK. Additionally there used to be apple orchards along the side of the main road through the village, Bridge Road. The radiobiologist Tikvah Alper died in Sarisbury in 1995. A village with two traditional cricket greens, Sarisbury Green
152-468: Is Sarisbury Athletic's main ground where they have their own club house. Adjacent to "The Green" is a set of two tennis courts, the Sarisbury Parish Rooms and the village Community Centre. The village is home to an infant and corresponding junior school , namely Sarisbury Infant School (for 4-7 year olds) and Sarisbury Church of England Controlled Junior School (for 7-11 year olds) as well as
171-400: Is a residential suburb of Fareham , in the south of Hampshire , England . Locks Heath is immediately surrounded by a collection of villages including Sarisbury to the west, Swanwick , Park Gate and Whiteley to the north, Warsash to the southwest and Titchfield to the southeast. Within the heart of the area its shopping village is located with a community centre. The population of
190-517: Is a village in the Fareham district in Hampshire , England. It borders Locks Heath to the south, Segensworth to the east and Sarisbury to the west. Park Gate has two churches, Duncan Road Church and St Margaret Mary R.C. It also has three takeaway shops. Park Gate was developed around Swanwick railway station and was a distribution hub for local strawberries that were grown in the area. In 1913, at
209-507: Is also the home of Holly Hill Country Park . The cricket greens are used by Sarisbury Athletic Cricket Club. One pitch is opposite the One Stop convenience store on Bridge Road and the other is next to the junior school on Allotment Road. The one on Bridge Road, "The Green" is used by a variety of teams on Sundays and on Saturdays by Locks Heath 3rd XI and Sarisbury Athletic 3rd XI. Sarisbury U-15s also play there. Allotment Road pitch, "The Hollow"
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#1732879986975228-516: The area, much of the land once used is now covered with houses. Because of the nature of the plots of land which were once the strawberry farms, many of the houses are built in relatively small estates. There are numerous references to strawberries in the area, such as the Talisman pub (Talisman being a variety of strawberry) and the Joseph Paxton pub, the name of a locally-grown strawberry named after
247-757: The construction of new housing. The Lockswood Centre was built to provide additional facilities including the Lock Stock and Barrel pub (renamed the Strawberry Field Tavern in 2013) and a supermarket operated by Waitrose. The centre also includes a library/community centre and a GP surgery. There are many junior schools including St John’s School and Locks Heath Junior School where most of the Locks Heath infants pupils go to after they leave primary school, Hook-with-Warsash Junior School, Park Gate Primary School and Sarisbury Junior School. The only state secondary school
266-466: The gardener and designer of Crystal Palace . St John the Baptist church was built in 1895 to a design by Ewan Christian . It was extended in 1998. Nikolaus Pevsner and David Wharton Lloyd wrote of Locks Heath in 1967 that "Pocket package suburbanization [is] now proceeding piecemeal; there is no need to try to describe the resultant mess". The mid-1980s saw development of the Locks Heath area with
285-414: The peak of strawberry production, more than 3,000 tons of strawberries were sent from local fields every week to be distributed from the station. Strawberry distribution stopped in 1966, however, the railway station remains, and even though fruit and vegetables are still grown in the area, the present landscape is dominated by housing. The Station Master's House adjacent to the railway station has since become
304-442: The strawberries into for transportation. The outline of the old signage is still visible on the outside of the building. The strawberry industry hit its peak in the 1920s and then began to slip into decline. This was caused by a variety of factors, including the demand for development land, competition from abroad and the increasingly strict requirements of retailers for standardised products. Although strawberries are still grown in
323-408: The village itself in 2011 was 7,104 whilst the wider Locks Heath residential area (including surrounding villages) equaled 43,359 as of 2011. The heathland surrounding Locks Farm. In the late 19th and early 20th Century, the most important local activity in this area was strawberry growing. The industry developed as a result of the 1866 Enclosure Acts which allowed the common land to be split into
342-413: Was still being described as a chapelry in the parish of Titchfield, so the establishment date of the parish is unclear. On 30 September 1894 Sarisbury became a separate civil parish , on 1 April 1932 the parish was abolished and merged with Fareham , part also went to form Curbridge . In 1931 the parish had a population of 4338. It is now in the unparished area of Fareham. Sarisbury Green originated as
361-407: Was used to line up the wheels of the horse-drawn carts, so as to enable easy unloading of the carts. The station was also originally much bigger with what remains of a second branch line still visible under the tarmac of what is now the station car park. A short way from the station a warehouse can be seen which used to be the 'Swanwick and District Basket Factory' which supplied the baskets to pack
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