Hamble-le-Rice

Hamble-le-Rice is a relatively small village near the city of Southampton, in the UK. It is best known for being an aircraft training centre during the Second World War for planes including the Spitfire, the Lancaster and the Wellington. It is also a yachting mecca: the nearby River Hamble is often packed with yachting traffic and during the summer the whole village is crowded with people out enjoying the water. The village and its river are one of the many locations that made up the fictional village of Tarrant in the BBC television series Howards Way, shown weekly on BBC1 in the late 1980s.

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Village - Southampton - UK - Second World War - Spitfire - Lancaster - Wellington - River Hamble - BBC - 1980s

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The village is also home to a BP fuel terminal. Despite the fact that the airfield has long since been overgrown and sold off to house developers Persimmion, Hamble retains a large interest in the aviation industry with the British Aerostructures factory in Kings Avenue being the single largest employer in the area, the workforce far outnumbering that of the BP terminal. The shift patterns of the Aerostructures factory are well-known to Hamble residents as Hamble Lane (the only road out of Hamble) is often clogged with traffic.

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BP - Persimmion - British Aerostructures

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The village is served by Hamble railway station.

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