Valley Park, Chandler's Ford

Human settlement in England

Valley Park

District

Test Valley

Hampshire

Region

South East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townEASTLEIGHPostcode districtSO53 4Dialling code023Police Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire Hampshire and Isle of Wight Ambulance South Central UK Parliament

Eastleigh

Websitehttp://www.valleyparkparish.org/

List of places: UK; England; Hampshire

50°59′06″N 1°23′42″W / 50.985°N 1.395°W / 50.985; -1.395^[1]

Valley Park is a civil parish and a new town in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. The part of the parish is called Knightwood.

History

Valley Park sits near an Iron Age settlement.^[3]^[4]

The area underwent a large amount of development from the mid-1980s ^[5] to the 2000s.^[6] West of Knightwood Road was developed starting in 1994 and doubled the size of the town.^[7]

Amenities

Valley Park has local schools, a supermarket,^[8] a community centre^[9] and a leisure centre.^[10]

References

^ "Valley Park". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
^ "Population estimates for Parishes in England and Wales". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
^ "Ancient fort discovered". Daily Echo. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
^ "Valley Park From Prehistory To The Present Day" (PDF). Test Valley Borough Council. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
^ "History of Valley Park". Valley Park Parish Council. Archived from the original on 20 June 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
^ "Modal Age of Properties Map". CDRC. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
^ "Parish History". St Francis Parish. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
^ "Valley Park Soton Express". Tesco. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
^ "Valley Park Community Centre". Valley Park Community Centre. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
^ "Knightwood Leisure Centre". Places Leisure. Retrieved 7 September 2020.