Country: | England |
Official Name: | Bucks Horn Oak |
Coordinates: | 51.168°N -0.845°W |
Civil Parish: | Binsted |
Shire District: | East Hampshire |
Shire County: | Hampshire |
Population: | 406 |
Population Ref: | as at the 2011 Census[1] |
Region: | South East England |
Constituency Westminster: | East Hampshire |
Post Town: | Farnham |
Postcode Area: | GU |
Postcode District: | GU10 |
Dial Code: | 01420 |
Os Grid Reference: | SU807417 |
Static Image Name: | Road junction at Bucks Horn Oak - geograph.org.uk - 1549427.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Lane south with side road into the modest developed area. The lane leads from the main road shown in the background to Binsted village |
Bucks Horn Oak is a small village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England and is the main community within Alice Holt Forest. A small eastern part consists of buildings facing its main road and of the main management and tourist sites of the surrounding public forest, postally part of the place. In the Church of England the community and all land as far as Bentley railway station (Hampshire) is in a parish mainly in Surrey, a larger community on the north-east of the forest, Rowledge.[2] In the secular, civil parishes in England, it is in the parish of Binsted, equating to the third tier of local government, namely Binsted Civil Parish Council.[3]
It is well clustered community mostly of low-rise, detached houses immediately west of the north-south A325 road, which is the link between Bordon and the southern A3 (such as Petersfield and Portsmouth) to Farnham.
The place consists of 114 addresses (some for businesses sharing a building) otherwise houses, mostly with hedges and small gardens and verges of the 20th century [4] in the Alice Holt Forest, covering about 3% of the forest's area. The balance of houses are 19th and approximately five are 21st century, having replaced mobile homes.
Its nearest town is Farnham, north north-east, geodesically (as the crow flies) and a similar distance by the direct road. It is the village immediately south of Birdworld, the largest UK avian zoological park and learning centre.
A few businesses/employers cluster immediately east, near the largest car park of the forest:
Its petrol station, tyres, brakes and car wash business featured in 'The Home Made Car', a short BP film used for BBC Colour Trade Transmissions. A MOT centre and a fencing/gate supplier are small businesses using land fronting the east of the main road, associated with Halfway Farm which consists of one field.