Titchfield

Titchfield is a small village in southern Hampshire, by the River Meon. Close-by lie the ruins of Titchfield Abbey, a place with strong associations with Shakespeare, through his patron, the Earl of Southampton. To the East lies the town of Fareham, whilst to the south is Hillhead and the Solent. Westwards lies the River Hamble and Southampton.

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Administratively, Titchfield forms part of the borough of Fareham.

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Just outside Titchfield is one of the offices of the Office for National Statistics. This office was set up in 1959 to conduct the 1961 Census.

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The name Titchfield was first recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Ticefelle. This is probably a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon ticcen feld, or "field where young goats are kept".

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Hampshire: Hampshire (abbr. Hants) is a county on the south coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county borders (clockwise from West), Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey and West Sussex. The county is 1,455 square miles (3,769 km²) in size and at its widest points is approximately 55 miles (90 k...

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