Hampshire Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, the former capital of England. After the metropolitan counties and Greater London, Hampshire is the most populous ceremonial county (1.84 million in 2017) in the United Kingdom. Its two largest settlements, Southampton and Portsmouth, are administered separately as unitary authorities and the rest of the area forms the administrative county, which is governed by Hampshire County Council. First settled about 14,000 years ago, Hampshire's recorded history dates back to Roman times, when its capital was Winchester. When the
Bishop's Waltham Town F.C. Bishop's Waltham Town F.C. Bishop's Waltham Town Football Club was a football club based in Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, England. The club was affiliated to the Hampshire Football Association. Originally established in 1901 as Bishop's Waltham Town, the club played in the Southampton Senior League. The club joined the Hampshire League Division Two in 1986, after winning the Southampton Senior League. In 2008 Bishop's Waltham Town and Sporting BTC merged their resources, but were unable to change their name from Sporting BTC as they had missed the deadline for name changes under the Hampshire Premier League's rules. In the summer of