Preston Candover

Preston Candover
The village pump at Preston Candover
Preston Candover is located in Hampshire
Preston Candover
Preston Candover
Location within Hampshire
Population357 [1]
510 (2011 Census including Bradley and Moundsmere)[2]
OS grid referenceSU6069341721
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBASINGSTOKE
Postcode districtRG25
Dialling code01256
PoliceHampshire and Isle of Wight
FireHampshire and Isle of Wight
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsitePreston Candover and Nutley Parish Council
List of places
UK
England
Hampshire
51°10′19″N 1°07′59″W / 51.172°N 1.133°W / 51.172; -1.133

Preston Candover is a village and large civil parish in Hampshire, England. It has two churches, only one of which is still in use. Its nearest town is Basingstoke, approximately 4.5 miles (7.2 km) away. It has an acreage of 3,457 acres (13.99 km2), which lies on comparatively low ground, south of the high country round the surrounding villages of Farleigh Wallop and Nutley, and north-west of that which rises to Wield and beyond to Bentworth. The village itself lies on the lowest ground towards the west of the parish on the road which comes northeast from Northington and the two other Candovers, and runs across the parish to enter Nutley at Axford and continues uphill to Farleigh Wallop and then to Basingstoke.

The village was home to the late Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover and his wife Anya Linden, of the supermarket Sainsbury family. [3]

  1. ^ "Census data". Archived from the original on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  3. ^ "Ex-supermarket boss Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover dies at 94". BBC News. 14 January 2022. Retrieved 15 January 2022.