Hampshire

Hampshire has a population of over 1,500,000 and covers and area of 1,503 square miles in Southern England. Winchester is the county town.

Industry

There is an oil refinery at Fawley and computer technology and aircraft engineering at Farnborough, which is one of the county’s major centres. There are three major ports at Gosport, Southampton, and Portsmouth. However, Hampshire is mainly an agricultural county, producing corn and dairy produce. Market gardening is also an important sector of the economy.

Geography

The major rivers are the Avon, the Test and the Itchen. The terrain is undulating and is crossed by two chalk downs, rising in places to more than 800 feet above sea level.

History

Evidence of prehistoric and Roman settlement can be found throughout the county. Hampshire was never an independent Kingdom and was an early part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex.

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