Hampshire Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
ceremonial county of England
About Hampshire
In both speech and writing (for example on postal addresses), Hampshire's name is often abbreviated toHants. Although part of theSouth Eastregion of England, Hampshire is actually midway along the south coast between east and west. Clockwise from the west, it is bordered by the counties ofDorset,Wiltshire,Berkshire,Surrey, andWest Sussex. To the south is the Solent, a narrow channel of sea separating mainland Britain from theIsle of Wight, and the English Channel. Hampshire's coast is characterised by many natural harbours and inlets, which boost the coast's60 miles (100km)"as the crow flies" into a true length of around250 miles (400km). Hampshire combines scattered population centres with a typical English rural landscape. The bulk of the population lives in the South Hampshire conurbati
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