Thruxton is just off the A303 five miles (8 km) West of Andover. It is a picturesque village with a Manor House, thatched cottages and village green. Pillhill Brook runs from Thruxton Down through the grounds of the Manor House and along the village street to Mullen's Pond, a natural habitat for many species of migratory birds and wild plants. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ... A ward is an electoral district used in local politics, most notably in England, Scotland, and Wales, as well as Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland and many cities in the United States and the federal district of Washington, DC. A ward in England is an electoral district represented by... A borough is a local government administrative subdivision used in the Canadian province of Quebec, in some states of the United States, and formerly in New Zealand. ... Test Valley is a local government district and borough in Hampshire, England. ... The division into counties is one of the larger divisions of England. ... Hampshire (abbr. ... The region (sometimes known as Government Office Region) is currently the highest tier of local government in England. ... South East England is one of the official regions of England. ... Home Nations is a term to refer to the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom — England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland — collectively, but as separate entities, distinct from the United Kingdom as a whole. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... This article is about the unit of measure known as the acre. ... A post town is a required part of all UK postal addresses. ... UK and Australian postal codes are known as postcodes. ... The UK telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Numbering Plan, is regulated by the Office of Communications (Ofcom), which replaced the Office of Telecommunications (Oftel) in 2003. ... Location within the British Isles. ...

History

Thruxton was almost certainly one of four ‘Annes’ named in the Domesday Book under the Andover Hundred. In the 12th century the name was Turkilleston (Turkil being a Saxon name and ‘tun’ being the Saxon word for farmstead and later hamlet, or village - so Turkils or Thurcols Homestead ) which, over the centuries, changed via Thruckleston (16th century), Throxton (18th century) to the present form. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A map showing the general locations of the major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms The Anglo-Saxons were originally a collection of differing Germanic tribes from Angeln—a peninsula in the southern part of Schleswig, protruding into the Baltic Sea, and what is now Lower Saxony, in the north-west coast of...

A Roman building considered to be a temple or a basilican villa was unearthed in 1823, which contained a mosaic depicting Bacchus seated on a tiger. The tessellated pavement was acquired for the British Museum in 1893. Principal sites in Roman Britain Roman Britain is the term applied to that part of Britain lying within the Roman Empire (which never extended to the whole island). ... Bacchus is the name of: the Roman god Bacchus, known to the Greeks as Dionysus the Christian martyr Saint Bacchus, companion to Saint Sergius; see: Saint Sergius the asteroid 2063 Bacchus the Bacchus grape variety, grown predominantly in Germany the Bacchus (painting) by Leonardo da Vinci the comic book Bacchus... The main entrance to the British Museum The British Museum in London is the United Kingdoms - and one of the worlds - largest and most important museums of human history and culture. ...

Parts of the parish church of St Peter and St Paul's date from the thirteenth century and contain the tombs of three knights. A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ...

The toll house for Andover to Amesbury turnpike road at Mullen's Pond was demolished in 1965. A toll road, turnpike or tollpike is a road on which a toll authority collects a fee for use. ...

Race track

The most notable attraction is a world-famous race track. Originally built in 1940 as a World War II airfield and home to both the RAF and USAF, it was used for troop-carrying aircraft and gliders during the D-Day landings. In 1946 it was decommissioned; motorcycle racing started in 1950 followed by cars in 1952. The runway and perimeter roads formed the original circuit until a new track was laid in 1968. The new circuit uses only the perimeter road with the addition of a chicane and three tight corners. It is considered by many to be the fastest circuit in the UK. Thruxton is used as an airfield on non-race days. One hard runway and a grass runway are situated inside the race track. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe... RAF is an three letter acronym for: Royal Air Force -- the Air Force of the United Kingdom (see also Air Ministry) Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion) -- a German terror organisation Rigas Autobusu Fabrika -- a factory making buses in Riga, Latvia Rapid Action Force in India Računarski Fakultet RAF... Seal of the Air Force. ... Land on Normandy In military parlance, D-Day is a term often used to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. ... The Ford chicane on Le Mans A chicane is a sequence of tight serpentine curves (usually an S-shape curve) in a roadway, used in auto racing and on city streets to slow cars. ...

Public houses

There are two village pubs; the White Horse, a fifteenth century thatched pub at Mullens Pond south of the A303, and the George Inn, a coaching inn dating from the seventeenth century near the centre of the village. A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries influenced by British cultural heritage. ... In the United Kingdom, from approximately the mid-seventeenth century for a period of about 200 years, the Coaching Inn was a vital part of the inland transport infrastructure. ...

External links and references

• Pictures, Facts (RootsWeb.com)
• Old maps of Truxton (Old Hampshire Gazetteer, University of Portsmouth)
• Thruxton treasures (Hampshire Treasures Online, Hampshire County Council)
• Thruxton Circuit (British Automobile Racing Club)
• Race track homepage
• airfield control tower (control.towers.co.uk)
• new/old aerial photos + history of airfield (Aviation in Hampshire)