History
Andover UK’s 1st mention inside history is around 950 when King Edred is recording as getting built the royal hunting lodge there. Around 962 King Edgar called a meeting of the Saxon 'parliament' his hunting lodge touching Andover.

Of additional importance was a baptism, within 994 of the Viking leader Olaf Trygvason. This was the portion of a treat by using King Ethelred II of England (“The Unready�) whereby he stopped ravaging England and returned page. Olaf became king of Norway in 995 and tried to convert his country to Christianity before his death around battle around 1000.

At a period of the Domesday Book (1086) Andover got 107 male denizen & probably had the number people of astir Five hundred. It was quite big class action settlement per standards of the period. (Virtually all villages experienced merely 100 to 150 humans). Andover too got Sextet watermills which ground grain to flour. Around 1175 King Richard I sold Andon top a charter granting a town certain rights, forming an merchandiser gild which took over the food and drug administration of the town. A members elected 2 officials known as bailiffs world health organization ran a town. Around 1201 King John gave the merchandiser the right to collect royal taxes around Andover themselves. Around 1256 Henry III gave the town the right to hang on to the court & endeavour felon for offences committed around Andover. Andover likewise sent MPs to the parliaments of 1295 and 1302-1307. A town was ravaged by 2 good fires, a single within 1141 and another within 1435.

Andover remained the little market town. Processing wool appears to use at times been a independent industry & street list around a town called “Sheep Fair� commemorate this. The hebdomadally market, & an annual fair were held.

Too when the Church of St Mary the town got a priory & a hospital rerun by monks, dedicated to St John the Baptist, and as well the lepers hostel to St Mary Magdalene. Inside 1538 during the Reformation Henry VIII closed a priory & the hospital. Around 1571 a free school for the boys of Andover was established. This eventually became Andover Grammar School, & is today John Hanson Community School.

Around 1599 the town received a recently charter from either Elizabeth I. a merchandiser gild was manufactured a corporation & the total of annual fairs was increased from either of these to 3. Rather more towns Andover suffered from either irruption of plague. There were irruption within 1603-Five, 1625-6 & 1636.

In a period of the 18th century, existence placed on the independent Exeter – Salisbury – London road Andover became a major stopping point on the stagecoach routes, more than Thirty stage passing through the town daily. Within 1789 a canal to Southampton was opened, though this was never a commercial profits & closed inside 1859. It was replaced by the railway around the 19th century, which was shut down in 1964. A l&, together sustaining a adjacent gasworks and P. M. Coombes woodyards, were so sold to the TSB Bank world health organization late built their headquarters there.

When you took the 19th century a town acquired all the common additions, a theatre inside 1803, gas street lighting around 1838, a firehouse & bungalow hospital within 1877, a playing pool opened within 1885 and a recreation ground opened by Park Acre inside 1887. The waterworks was formed inside 1875 to provide piped water to the town & the technique of sewers & drains was built inside 1899-1902. A public library opened in 1897.

A woolen industry experienced declined however fresh industries took it place. Taskers Iron Works opened at Abbots Ann inside 1809 and flourished. Andover Airfield was opened when you took a First World War and became the places of an RAF Staff College. In a period of the Second World War it was the headquarters of RAF Maintenance Command. Inside 1932 Andover gained a newly industry after a printers for Kelly’s street directories moved to the town. Slowly a town grew & by 1960 had a people of astir 17,000.

Around 1955 the Town Council decided it would be a good idea to add fluoride to the swallowing water system to improve dental health. This provoked the furious public response, & the heavy anti-fluoridation campaign began. In the 1958 local elections anti-fluoridation candidates swept a board, turning retired numbers of established members, & the idea was dropped.

Within 1960 the Town Council was approached by the Greater London Council to become an overspill town, to build houses & choose population & industry resettled from either a overcrowded capital. A bit of contend that got a old Town Council however been around charge this would never use at times been agreed. However it was, & inside 1961 the plan was drawn as much as expand to the people of occasionally 47,000 by 1982, with 9,000 fresh homes to exist as built.

A foremost fresh council houses were quick by 1964 and by 1981 the population experienced risen to 51,000. The bypass, industrial estates & the recently center were a lot built. & a town’s character changed all. Major industries world health organization moved there involved Twinings a tea & coffee law office, Ducal Pine Furniture (until it closed around 2003) & Thompson International Publishers, world health organization develop the Pitkinside Guides to become encountered in several churches and more notability buildings. the Town Museum, depending in the old grammar school, experienced a Museum of the Iron Age added in 1986 which houses the finds from either excavations at nearby Danebury Hill Fort.

A recently council houses proved to become super badly built. It seemed that a local council would keep close at hand to foot a tremendous bill for reconstruction, however when starting legal action against a Greater London Council the settlement was achieved, around which the GLC paid a big total of money to the local council, world health organization began a programme of renovation which finished in 1995.

Now a people of Andover is 38,000. A Town Council & Rural District Council were abolished in the local government shake-up of 1974, and replaced by End line text Valley Borough Council, which involved a land down to the edge of Southampton in the south, quite a rural region apart from either Andover. Lightly industry is however a independent employer. Placed astir Ace hour Xx transactions from either London by train there are as well quite few world health organization commute to the capital to operate. A tensions between town & united states & a “old� & “new� Andover however survive inside a bit of measure, & later extra expansion is planned.

Geography

Andover is placed at (51.2167, -I.4667)¹.