Sholing
Sholing, previously Scholing, is a suburb on the eastern side of the city of Southampton, in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England. It is located between the districts of Bitterne, Thornhill and Woolston.Photo: Alex McGregor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb with 14,100 residents
- Description: district on the eastern side of the city of Southampton, in Hampshire, England
- Also known as: “Scholing”, “Sholing, Hampshire”, and “Sholling”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Itchen College and Oasis Academy Sholing.
Itchen College
College
Photo: Ardyer14, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Itchen Sixth Form College is a mixed sixth form college in Bitterne, Southampton, Hampshire, England. It was established in 1906 and was originally a mixed secondary school, it later became Itchen Grammar School under the reforms of the Butler Education Act.
Oasis Academy Sholing
School
Oasis Academy Sholing, previously known as The Sholing Technology College and, before that, Sholing Girls' School, is an academy school in east Southampton, Hampshire, in the south of England.
Sholing railway station
Railway station
Photo: Bashereyre, Public domain.
Sholing railway station is a railway station serving the suburb of Sholing, on the edge of Southampton, England, operated by South Western Railway. It is the finishing point of the Itchen Way, a 32-mile long-distance footpath.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Itchen Urban District and Bitterne.
Itchen Urban District
Suburb
Itchen was an urban district in Hampshire, England, from 1898 to 1920. It was formed in 1898 from the parishes of St Mary Extra and Sholing. From 1894 to 1898 both these parishes had formed part of the South Stoneham Rural District.
Bitterne
Suburb
Photo: Dave Jacobs, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bitterne is an eastern suburb and ward of Southampton, in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England. Bitterne derives its name not from the similarly named bird, the bittern, but probably from the bend in the River Itchen; the Old English words byht and ærn together mean "house near a bend" or possibly bita ærn; "house of horse bits", either most likely a reference to Bitterne Manor House.
Thornhill
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thornhill is a suburb of Southampton, United Kingdom, situated on the eastern border of the city and bounded by three major roads. According to the 2001 census the population was 11,460.
Sholing
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Eastleigh District, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.9035° or 50° 54′ 13″ northLongitude
-1.35292° or 1° 21′ 11″ westPopulation
14,100Elevation
112 feet (34 metres)Open location code
9C2WWJ3W+9ROpenStreetMap ID
node 26727724OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
2637923Wikidata ID
Q7500230
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In Other Languages
From Polish to Swedish—“Sholing” goes by many names.
- Polish: “Sholing”
- Swedish: “Sholing”
- “Sholing”
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Notable Places Nearby
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