Rownhams
village in Hampshire, England, UK
Rownhams is a village in the civil parish of Nursling and Rownhams, in the Test Valley district, in Hampshire, England, situated just outside the boundaries of the City of Southampton, to the north-west. Rownhams services is a nearby service station on the M27 motorway that runs to the north of the village.
The village consists of over 1200 homes. Rownhams house, a Georgian mansion, is now a business park and wedding venue, The parish church is St John the Evangelist. There is a community centre, a primary school, two pre-schools and a hairdressing salon. The village is planned to grow in the next few years as several planning applications are either in the system or have been approved.
For many years the parish and village has been combined with Nursling and also Toothill, which were once separate independent villages. Hence, for example, the churches are joined in the joint parish of Nursling and Rownhams with one incumbent and run by one parochial church council.
The village has been twinned with the village of Percy-en-Auge in Normandy since 1988.
Many of the activities and facilities are shared between Rownhams and Nursling, e.g.
“Rownhams” enters the record as village in Hampshire, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rownhams, village and Hampshire can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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