East Hampshire is a
local government district in
Hampshire
Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...
,
England
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. Its council is based in
Petersfield. Other towns are
Alton and
Bordon.
The district was originally to be known as the District Council of Petersfield. It comprised 42 seats and first met on 18 June 1973. For ten months it operated alongside the councils that it was formed to replace: the
Alton and
Petersfield urban districts along with
Alton Rural District and Petersfield
Rural District
Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the a ...
.
On 8 October 1973, the new council changed its name to the current East Hampshire District Council (or EHDC as it is usually known).
On 1 April 1974, the old councils were dissolved, leaving only EHDC.
Sandy Hopkins was the first joint Chief Executive in Hampshire when she was appointed to head both EHDC and Havant Borough Council in October 2009.
Councillors approved the business case put forward by the Chief Executive for a shared management team between the two authorities in June 2010.
The new team took up its position in October 2010 and consists of five Executive Heads reporting to two Executive Directors.
This is a reduction in senior management from 15 to 7 positions.
Politics
East Hampshire District Council is elected every four years, with currently 43
councillor
A councillor is an elected representative for a local government council in some countries.
Canada
Due to the control that the provinces have over their municipal governments, terms that councillors serve vary from province to province. Unl ...
s being elected at each election. The
Conservative party
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Political parties called The Conservative P ...
has controlled the council for much of its history including having a majority from 1976 to 1991, with the only other party to have had a majority being the
Liberal Democrats from 1991 to 1999. Most recently the Conservatives have controlled the council since the
1999 election, and as of the
2019 election the council is composed of the following councillors:
Settlements and parishes
For a list of civil parishes in East Hampshire, see
List of civil parishes in Hampshire#East Hampshire.
Settlements in East Hampshire include:
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Alton
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Beech
Beech (''Fagus'') is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. Recent classifications recognize 10 to 13 species in two distinct subgenera, ''Engleriana'' and ''Fagus''. The ''Engl ...
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Bentley
Bentley Motors Limited is a British designer, manufacturer and marketer of luxury cars and SUVs. Headquartered in Crewe, England, the company was founded as Bentley Motors Limited by W. O. Bentley (1888–1971) in 1919 in Cricklewood, Nort ...
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Bentworth,
Binsted
Binsted is a village and large civil parish in East Hampshire, England. It is about east of Alton, its nearest town. The parish is one of the largest in northern Hampshire and covers almost . It contains two villages, Bucks Horn Oak and Hol ...
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Blackmoor
Blackmore is a village in Essex, England.
Blackmore or Blackmoor may also refer to:
* Blackmore (name), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
* Blackmoor, Hampshire, a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England ...
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Blendworth,
Bordon,
Bramshott
Bramshott is a village with mediaeval origins in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It lies 0.9 miles (1.4 km) north of Liphook.
The nearest railway station, Liphook, is south of the village.
History
The first evidence for ...
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Bucks Horn Oak
Bucks Horn Oak is a small village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England and is the main community within Alice Holt Forest. A small eastern part consists of buildings facing its main road and of the main management and tourist sit ...
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Buriton
Buriton () is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is located 2 miles (3.3 km) south of Petersfield.
History
About a mile north-west of Buriton was the extensive manor of West Mapledurham ...
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Catherington
Catherington is a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 1 mile (1.8 km) northwest of Horndean. The village is also close to Cowplain and Clanfield. It is situated about 10 miles north of Portsmouth and eight mi ...
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Chawton,
Clanfield,
Colemore
Colemore is a hamlet and former village in the Hampshire Downs about northwest of Petersfield. It was united with Priors Dean to form the civil parish of Colemore and Priors Dean in 1932.
Colemore is a largely abandoned village. There were h ...
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East Meon,
East Tisted
East Tisted () is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 4.8 miles (7.7 km) south of Alton on the A32 road.
The village lies 50 miles south-west of London, 14 miles east of the city of Winch ...
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East Worldham,
Empshott
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Farringdon,
Finchdean
Finchdean is a rural hamlet in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It lies on the Hampshire/West Sussex border, 1.7 miles (2.7 km) east of Horndean.
The origin of the place-name is from the Old English word ''finc'' and ''denu ...
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Four Marks
Four Marks is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is southwest of Alton, on the A31 road. It is situated on the borders of the South Downs National Park on the Pilgrims' Way that leads from Winch ...
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Froxfield
Froxfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. The parish is on the Wiltshire-West Berkshire border, and the village lies on the A4 national route about west of Hungerford and east of Marlborough.
Froxfield vil ...
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Golden Pot
Golden Pot is a hamlet in the East Hampshire
East Hampshire is a local government district in Hampshire, England. Its council is based in Petersfield. Other towns are Alton and Bordon.
The district was originally to be known as the District ...
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Grayshott,
Greatham
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Hawkley
Hawkley is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 3.5 miles (5.7 km) north of Petersfield, to the west of the A3 road.
The nearest railway station is to the southeast in the village of Liss ...
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Headley Headley may refer to:
Places
* Headley, Basingstoke and Deane in the civil parish of Ashford Hill with Headley
* Headley, East Hampshire
** Headley Grange, Hampshire
* Headley, Surrey
Other uses
* Headley (surname)
* Baron Headley, a title in th ...
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Headley Down,
High Cross
A high cross or standing cross ( ga, cros ard / ardchros, gd, crois àrd / àrd-chrois, cy, croes uchel / croes eglwysig) is a free-standing Christian cross made of stone and often richly decorated. There was a unique Early Medieval tradit ...
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Holybourne,
Horndean
Horndean is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England, north of Portsmouth.
The nearest railway station is southeast of the village at Rowlands Castle.
The village had a population of 12,942 at the 2011 Census, and shares the semi- ...
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Kingsley Kingsley may refer to:
People
*Kingsley (given name)
* Kingsley (surname)
Places Australia
*Kingsley, Western Australia
Canada
* Rural Municipality of Kingsley No. 124, Saskatchewan
England
*Kingsley, Cheshire
* Kingsley, Hampshire
* Kingsley, ...
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Langrish,
Lasham,
Lindford,
Liphook,
Liss
Liss, Lyss or LISS may refer to
*Liss (band), a Danish musical group
* Liss (name), a given name and surname
*Liss, Hampshire, a village in England
**West Liss, the oldest part of Liss village
**Liss Forest, a hamlet near Liss
** Liss Athletic F. ...
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Lower Froyle,
Lower Wield
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Medstead
Medstead is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Alton, which lies northeast of the village. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 2,036 people. The parish ...
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Neatham
Neatham is a Roman hamlet in the civil parish of Alton in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Alton,(where the 2011 Census population was included) which lies south-west from the hamlet.
History Roman peri ...
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Newton Valence
Newton Valence is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 4.4 miles (7.1 km) south of Alton, just off the A32 road.
The nearest railway station is Liss, 4.5 miles (7.3 km) southeast of ...
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North Street
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Petersfield,
Priors Dean
Priors Dean is a hamlet in the Hampshire Downs about west of Liss and about north of Petersfield, Hampshire, England. It is a deserted medieval village first mentioned in the 1100s. Since 1932 it and Colemore have been in a single civil pa ...
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Ropley
Ropley is a village and large civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It has an acreage of , situated east from New Alresford, and is served by a station on the Mid Hants Railway heritage line at Ropley Dean, just o ...
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Ropley Dean
Ropley Dean is a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 7.3 miles (11.7 km) southwest of Alton.
The village has its own restored railway station on the Watercress Line
The Watercress Line is the marke ...
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Rowlands Castle
Rowland's Castle is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 2.9 miles (4.7 km) north of Havant, on the Hampshire/West Sussex border.
The focal point of the village is the village green which ...
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Selborne,
Shalden
Shalden is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is northwest of Alton and northeast of Bentworth, just off the A339 road. The parish covers an area of and has an average elevation of above sea ...
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Sheet,
Steep,
Stroud
Stroud is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is the main town in Stroud District. The town's population was 13,500 in 2021.
Below the western escarpment of the Cotswold Hills, at the meeting point of the Five Va ...
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Upper Froyle,
Upper Wield
Upper Wield is a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Wield. It is west of Alton.
The nearest railway station is the restored Medstead & Four Marks station on the Watercress Line
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West Tisted
West Tisted is a small village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is northwest of Petersfield, just off the A32 road.
The nearest railway station is the restored Ropley station on the Watercress Line
The Watercress ...
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West Worldham,
Weston,
Whitehill
References
External links
East Hampshire District Council's websiteNews and events in East Hampshire
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Non-metropolitan districts of Hampshire