Bucks Horn Oak

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Bucks Horn Oak
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Lane south with side road into the modest developed area. The lane leads from the main road shown in the background to Binsted village
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Bucks Horn Oak
Location within Hampshire
Population406 as at the 2011 Census [1]
OS grid reference SU807417
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Farnham
Postcode district GU10
Dialling code 01420
Police Hampshire
Fire Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Ambulance South Central
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Hampshire
51°10′05″N0°50′42″W / 51.168°N 0.845°W / 51.168; -0.845 Coordinates: 51°10′05″N0°50′42″W / 51.168°N 0.845°W / 51.168; -0.845

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 sites of the surrounding public forest, postally part of the place. In the Church of England the community and all land as far as Bentley railway station (Hampshire) is in a parish mainly in Surrey, a larger community on the north-east of the forest, Rowledge. [2] In the secular, civil parishes in England, it is in the parish of Binsted, equating to the third tier of local government, namely Binsted Civil Parish Council. [3]

Contents

It is well clustered community mostly of low-rise, detached houses immediately west of the north-south A325 road, which is the link between Bordon and the southern A3 (such as Petersfield and Portsmouth) to Farnham.

Setting and housing

The place consists of 114 addresses (some for businesses sharing a building) otherwise houses, mostly with hedges and small gardens and verges of the 20th century [4] in the Alice Holt Forest, covering about 3% of the forest's area. The balance of houses are 19th and approximately five are 21st century, having replaced mobile homes.

Its nearest town is Farnham, 5 miles (8.0 km) north north-east, geodesically (as the crow flies) and a similar distance by the direct road. It is the village immediately south of Birdworld, the largest UK avian zoological park and learning centre.

Economy

A few businesses/employers cluster immediately east, near the largest car park of the forest:

Its petrol station, tyres, brakes and car wash business featured in 'The Home Made Car', a short BP film used for BBC Colour Trade Transmissions. An MOT centre and a fencing/gate supplier are small businesses using land fronting the east of the main road, associated with Halfway Farm which consists of one field.

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References

  1. (Output Area E00114800), Office for National Statistics
  2. Rowledge Ecclesiastical Parish Map The Church of England.
  3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2019.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Postcode and Address Finder | Royal Mail Group Ltd". Archived from the original on 29 May 2014.