Binsted
| Binsted | |
 Telegraph House, Binsted. |
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  Binsted |
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| Population | 1,635 (2001) |
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| OS grid reference | SU770411 |
| Civil parish | Binsted |
| District | East Hampshire |
| Shire county | Hampshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ALTON |
| Postcode district | GU34 4 |
| Police | Hampshire |
| Fire | Hampshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
Coordinates: 51°09′51″N 0°53′55″W / 51.16405°N 0.89866°W
Binsted is a village and large civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. The village is about four miles east of Alton. The nearest railway station is 1.8 miles (2.9 km) northeast of the village, at Bentley.
Binsted is also the name of a housing estate in the Wadsley Bridge suburb of Sheffield in South Yorkshire.
Church
The churchyard of the parish church, the Holy Cross, contains the grave of Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, who spent his retirement in Isington near Alton.[1][2] Also buried here is General Sir David Fraser GCB, OBE - a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies.
History
Telegraph House, now a private home, was built by the Admiralty in 1825 as a semaphore relay station on the railway line linking London with Plymouth.[3][4]
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Binsted, Hampshire. |
- Church of the Holy Cross
- The History of the Church of the Holy Cross, Binsted
- Church of the Holy Cross, Binsted
- Stained Glass Windows at Holy Cross, Binsted, Hampshire
