Alton ( AWL-tən) is a market town and civil parish in East Hampshire, England, near the source of the northern branch of the River Wey. It is on the A31 road 8.5 miles (13.7 km) southeast of Farnham and 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Winchester.
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It was an important market town: it was recorded in the 11th-century Domesday Book as having the most valuable market in England. There have been multiple historic battles in Alton, in 1001 and during the English Civil War in 1643. Alton was the site of the treaty in which Robert Curthose recognised Henry I as the King of England.
The town had an urban district council until 1974, when a civil parish was established, creating Alton Town Council. The town had a population of 17,880 at the 2021 census.
The town has connections with Sweet Fanny Adams, who was famously murdered in 1867, and Georgian novelist Jane Austen.
From the Wikipedia article Alton, Hampshire, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Towns around Alton
- Bordon8.8 km SE
- Farnham14 km NE
- Basingstoke15 km NW
- Hale16 km NE
- Fleet18 km NE
- Aldershot18 km NE
- Haslemere20 km E
- Farnborough22 km NE
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