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Oliver's Battery
Oliver's Battery
	The earthworks and shops in Oliver's Battery Road South.
	Oliver's Battery Location within Hampshire
Population	1,547 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	SU458277
• London	62.2m
District	City of Winchester;
Shire county	Hampshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Winchester
Postcode district	SO22
Dialling code	01962
Police	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Fire	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Winchester;
	List of places UK England Hampshire 51°02′42″N 1°21′08″W / 51.0450°N 1.3523°W

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Oliver's Battery is a civil parish in Hampshire, England, of some 700 households located just to the south of the City of Winchester. The parish was formed in 1956 (in the then Winchester Rural District, and part of the City of Winchester District since 1974) from part of Compton parish. The parish does not include the whole of the settlement known informally as Oliver's Battery, with the northern boundary following the A3090 and therefore excluding Oliver's Battery Road North.

History

The name Oliver's Battery refers to a prominent Iron Age earthwork. A fine Anglo-Saxon bowl^[2] from a burial within the Battery^[3] was on show for many years at the British Museum, but has now been returned to Winchester City Museum on long-term loan.^[4] The parish also contains a number of Bronze Age burial mounds. The Olivers Battery name dates back to the English Civil War and is specifically associated with Oliver Cromwell's siege of Winchester in 1645. A map of 1780 refers to the area as "Cromwell's Camp" and later maps show it as "Oliver Cromwell's Battery". The ancient earthwork may well have provided a suitable campsite for the besieging Parliamentarian forces, but cannon of the period would have lacked the range to fire on Winchester Castle and city walls from the so-called battery site.

For centuries, Oliver's Battery was open downland grazed by sheep. Permanent settlements only appeared in the early years of the twentieth century with the establishment of a military camp. During the First World War the army maintained an extensive Veterinary Hospital for horses. After the war, the camp was split up into small holdings with army huts being used as dwellings. Gradually, a community developed as huts were replaced with houses and other homes were built.

In the late 1970s the community was bisected by Badger Farm Road (now the A3090), which acts as a south-western ring road for Winchester. A southern Winchester park-and-ride scheme opened in 2010 and is intended to reduce rush-hour congestion on this road.^[5]

Facilities

There is a local shopping centre built in the 1960s, with Sub Post Office. A small Anglican church, St Mark's, doubles up as a village hall and there is also a Catholic church, St Stephen's. Oliver's Battery Primary School was opened in 1973. St Peter's Catholic Primary School was built in the 1980s (having originated in Winchester in the 1850s), next to St Stephen's. The Catholic school and church are in Oliver's Battery Road North, and therefore not within the civil parish. There is no secondary school, but Kings' School is within walking distance.

References

^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
^ "Item A2007.31.1". www.winchestermuseumcollections.org.uk. Winchester Museum.
^ "Oliver's Battery Burial". www.winchestermuseumcollections.org.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
^ "Winchester's Saxon hanging bowl is home!". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2007.
^ "Hampshire County Council".

External links

Media related to Oliver's Battery at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 1 January 2017.

[2] "Item A2007.31.1". www.winchestermuseumcollections.org.uk. Winchester Museum.

[3] "Oliver's Battery Burial". www.winchestermuseumcollections.org.uk. Retrieved 21 August 2019.

[4] "Winchester's Saxon hanging bowl is home!". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2007.

[5] "Hampshire County Council".

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+|population_ref = (2011 Census)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127252&c=Olivers+Battery&d=16&e=62&g=6432164&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1483282384633&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=1 January 2017|publisher=Office for National Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>
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+|shire_district= [[City of Winchester]]
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+|static_image=Olivers Battery.jpg
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-'''Olivers Battery''' (sometimes known as Oliver's Battery) is a [[civil parish]] in [[Hampshire]], [[England]], of some 700 households located just to the south of the City of [[Winchester]]. The parish was founded in 1956 on land that was formerly part of [[Compton and Shawford|Compton]] parish. The parish does not include the whole of the settlement known informally as Oliver's Battery, with the northern boundary following the [[A3090 road|A3090]] and therefore excluding Oliver's Battery Road North. It is the area where [[England national football team|England]] International footballer [[Wayne Bridge]] was raised.{{Fact|date=December 2007}}
+'''Oliver's Battery''' is a [[civil parish]] in [[Hampshire]], England, of some 700 households located just to the south of the City of [[Winchester]]. The parish was formed in 1956 (in the then [[Winchester Rural District]], and part of the [[City of Winchester]] District since 1974) from part of [[Compton and Shawford|Compton]] parish. The parish does not include the whole of the settlement known informally as Oliver's Battery, with the northern boundary following the [[A3090 road|A3090]] and therefore excluding Oliver's Battery Road North.
 ==History==
-The name Olivers Battery refers to a prominent [[iron age]] earthwork. A fine [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] bowl [http://www.winchestermuseumcollections.org.uk/archaeology/index.asp?page=itemFromLink&filename=archall.mdf&itemId=HMCMS:A2007.31.1] from a burial within the Battery [http://www.winchestermuseumcollections.org.uk/topics/index.asp?page=itemFromLink&itemId=Oliver's%20Battery%20burial] was on on show for many years at the [[British Museum]], but has now been returned to Winchester City Museum on long term loan [http://www.winchester.gov.uk/news/NewsArticleM.asp?id=SX9452-A7837457]. The parish also contains a number of [[bronze age]] burial mounds. The Olivers Battery name dates back to the [[English Civil War]] and is specifically associated with [[Oliver Cromwell]]'s siege of Winchester in 1645. A map of 1780 refers to the area as "Cromwell's Camp" and later maps show it as "Oliver Cromwell's Battery". The ancient earthwork may well have provided a suitable campsite for the besieging Parliamentarian forces, but cannon of the period would have lacked the range to fire on Winchester Castle and city walls from the so-called battery site.
+The name Oliver's Battery refers to a prominent [[Iron Age]] earthwork. A fine [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] bowl<ref>{{cite web |title=Item A2007.31.1 |url=http://www.winchestermuseumcollections.org.uk/archaeology/index.asp?page=itemFromLink&filename=archall.mdf&itemId=HMCMS:A2007.31.1 |website=www.winchestermuseumcollections.org.uk |publisher=Winchester Museum}}</ref> from a burial within the Battery<ref>{{cite web |title=Oliver's Battery Burial |url=http://www.winchestermuseumcollections.org.uk/topics/index.asp?page=itemFromLink&itemId=Oliver's%20Battery%20burial |website=www.winchestermuseumcollections.org.uk |access-date=21 August 2019}}</ref> was on show for many years at the [[British Museum]], but has now been returned to Winchester City Museum on long-term loan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.winchester.gov.uk/news/NewsArticleM.asp?id=SX9452-A7837457|title=Winchester's Saxon hanging bowl is home!|access-date=27 July 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222630/http://www.winchester.gov.uk/news/NewsArticleM.asp?id=SX9452-A7837457|archive-date=27 September 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> The parish also contains a number of [[Bronze Age]] burial mounds. The Olivers Battery name dates back to the [[English Civil War]] and is specifically associated with [[Oliver Cromwell]]'s siege of Winchester in 1645. A map of 1780 refers to the area as "Cromwell's Camp" and later maps show it as "Oliver Cromwell's Battery". The ancient earthwork may well have provided a suitable campsite for the besieging Parliamentarian forces, but cannon of the period would have lacked the range to fire on Winchester Castle and city walls from the so-called battery site.
-For centuries, Olivers Battery was open downland grazed by sheep. Permanent settlements only appeared in the early years of the twentieth century with the establishment of a military camp. During the First World War the army maintained an extensive Veterinary Hospital for horses. After the war, the camp was split up into small holdings with army huts being used as dwellings. Gradually, a community developed as huts were replaced with houses and other homes were built.
+For centuries, Oliver's Battery was open downland grazed by sheep. Permanent settlements only appeared in the early years of the twentieth century with the establishment of a military camp. During the First World War the army maintained an extensive Veterinary Hospital for horses. After the war, the camp was split up into small holdings with army huts being used as dwellings. Gradually, a community developed as huts were replaced with houses and other homes were built.
-In the late 1970s the community was bisected by Badger Farm Road (now the A3090), which acts as a south-western ring road for Winchester. A southern Winchester park-and-ride scheme opened in 2010 and is intended to reduce rush-hour congestion on this road <ref>http://www3.hants.gov.uk/south-winchester-park-and-ride.htm</ref>.
+In the late 1970s the community was bisected by Badger Farm Road (now the A3090), which acts as a south-western ring road for Winchester. A southern Winchester park-and-ride scheme opened in 2010 and is intended to reduce rush-hour congestion on this road.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www3.hants.gov.uk/south-winchester-park-and-ride.htm|title = Hampshire County Council}}</ref>
 ==Facilities==
-There is a local shopping centre built in the 1960s, with Sub Post Office. A small Anglican church, St Mark's, doubles up as a village hall and there is also a Catholic church, St Stephen's. Oliver's Battery Primary School was opened in 1973. St Peter's Catholic Primary School was built in the 1990s (having originated in Winchester in the 1850s), next to St Stephen's. The Catholic school and church are in Oliver's Battery Road North, and therefore not within the civil parish. There is no secondary school, but [[Kings' School]] is within walking distance.
+There is a local shopping centre built in the 1960s, with Sub Post Office. A small Anglican church, St Mark's, doubles up as a village hall and there is also a Catholic church, [[St Peter's Church, Winchester#Parish|St Stephen's]]. Oliver's Battery Primary School was opened in 1973. St Peter's Catholic Primary School was built in the 1980s (having originated in Winchester in the 1850s), next to St Stephen's. The Catholic school and church are in Oliver's Battery Road North, and therefore not within the civil parish. There is no secondary school, but [[Kings' School]] is within walking distance.
 ==Further reading==
-David Farmer, 2000, ''A Brief History of Oliver's Battery'' (pamphlet)
+David Farmer, 2000, ''A Brief History of Oliver's Battery'' (pamphlet) [https://oliversbattery.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/parish_history.pdf]
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
-*[http://www.bfobrca.com/OBPC/obpc_home.html Parish homepage]
+*[http://oliversbattery.info/aboutus.html Oliver's Battery Parish Council]
 *[http://www.oliversbattery.com Oliver's Battery Primary School]
 *[http://www.st-peters.hants.sch.uk/ St Peter's Catholic School]
 *[http://www.oliversbatterycountrysidegroup.org.uk/index.html Oliver's Battery Countryside Group]
+==External links==
+{{Commons category-inline|Oliver's Battery}}
 {{Winchester}}
+{{Winchester wards and parishes}}
+{{authority control}}
+[[Category:1956 establishments in England]]
 [[Category:Civil parishes in Winchester]]
 [[Category:History of Winchester]]
 [[Category:Villages in Hampshire]]
-[[nl:Oliver's Battery]]
-[[pl:Olivers Battery]]

v t e Electoral wards and parishes in the City of Winchester District, Hampshire, England (since 2016 boundary changes)
Wards Parishes	Wonston and Micheldever	Crawley Littleton and Harestock Micheldever South Wonston Sparsholt Wonston
	The Worthys	Headbourne Worthy Kings Worthy
	Alresford and Itchen	Bighton Itchen Stoke and Ovington Bishops Sutton Itchen Valley New Alresford Northington Old Alresford
	Winchester	Winchester unparished city area has five wards: St Barnabas, St Bartholomew, St Luke, St Michael, St Paul
	Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery	Badger Farm Compton and Shawford Hursley Olivers Battery Otterbourne
	Colden Common and Twyford	Colden Common Twyford
	Upper Meon Valley	Chilcomb Tichborne Cheriton Beauworth Kilmeston Bramdean and Hinton Ampner Owslebury Upham Exton Warnford West Meon Corhampton and Meonstoke
	Bishops Waltham	Durley Bishops Waltham
	Central Meon Valley	Swanmore Droxford Soberton Hambledon
	Whiteley and Shedfield	Curdridge Whiteley Shedfield
	Denmead	Denmead Newlands
	Southwick and Wickham	Wickham Boarhunt Southwick and Widley Newlands
(Wards ordered from north-west corner, across the map, and then progressively south and east)