Oliver’s Battery
Oliver's Battery is a civil parish in Hampshire, England, of some 700 households located just to the south of the City of Winchester. The parish was formed in 1956 from part of Compton parish.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 1,590 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Hampshire, UK
- Also known as: “Oliver’s Battery, Hampshire” and “Olivers Battery”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Winchester Cathedral and Winchester Castle.
Winchester Cathedral
Church
Winchester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity and of Saint Peter and Saint Paul and of Saint Swithun in Winchester, is the cathedral of the city of Winchester, England, and is among the largest of its kind in Northern Europe.
Winchester Castle
Photo: Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Winchester Castle is a medieval building in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was founded in 1067. Only the Great Hall still stands; it houses a museum of the history of Winchester.
Wolvesey Castle
Castle
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wolvesey Castle, in Winchester, Hampshire, England, was the main residence of the Bishop of Winchester in the Middle Ages. The castle, mostly built by Henry of Blois in the 12th century, is now a ruin, except for its fifteenth-century chapel, which is now part of the bishop's current residence, Wolvesey Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winchester and Hursley.
Winchester
Winchester is an historic cathedral city in the county of Hampshire, South East England. Erstwhile capital of the country, it was from here that Alfred the Great governed much of unified England.
Hursley
Village
Photo: Nicholsr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hursley is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England with a population of around 900 in 2011. It is located roughly midway between Romsey and Winchester on the A3090. Hursley is situated 2½ miles southwest of Oliver’s Battery.
Sparsholt
Village
Photo: Chris Talbot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sparsholt is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England, 2+1⁄2 miles west of Winchester. In 1908 its area was 3,672 acres. The 2011 Census recorded its population as 982. Sparsholt is situated 2½ miles northwest of Oliver’s Battery.
Oliver’s Battery
- Categories: village and civil parish
- Location: Winchester District, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Oliver’s Battery” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Olivers Battery”
- Dutch: “Oliver’s Battery”
- French: “Oliver’s Battery”
- Irish: “Oliver’s Battery”
- Ladin: “Oliver’s Battery”
- Persian: “اولیورز بتری”
- Polish: “Oliver’s Battery”
- Swedish: “Olivers Battery”
- Welsh: “Oliver’s Battery”
- Welsh: “Olivers Battery”
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